You could try a setserial command like setserial ttyS0 uart 1650 or such. From your earlier setserial session, it appears that the kernel is not recognizing the uarts on your card.
>Okay, it looks like there's some kind of hardware problem. I did: >dmesg | grep ttyS >and get a whole bunch of lines that look something like this: >[ 9886.996672] ttyS0: LSR safety check engaged! >People are telling me I have to get into the bios and do something with IRQ >fiddling. Is there an alternative? >----- Original Message ----- >From: <[email protected]> >To: "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY." ><[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 10:56 AM >Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] some serial help > > >> Well, it certainly looks like it. Next, try googling for netmos on the >> web, and see what you can find. >> >>>Okay, I did this command >>>lspci -v >>>and got this: >>>02:09.0 Serial controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller >>>(rev >>>01) (prog-if 02 [16550]) >>>Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic Device 0001 >>>Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17 >>>I/O ports at d010 [size=8] >>>I/O ports at d018 [size=8] >>>I/O ports at d020 [size=8] >>>I/O ports at d028 [size=8] >>>I/O ports at d030 [size=8] >>>I/O ports at d000 [size=16] >>>Kernel driver in use: serial >>>That looks like the ports should be working, right? Is it normal to have >>>that many IO ports? >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: <[email protected]> >>>To: "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY." >>><[email protected]> >>>Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 10:28 PM >>>Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] some serial help >>> >>> >>>> Hi Rob. What make is your serial card? Some cards come with special >>>> drivers that need to be loaded before you can use the card. It's also >>>> possible that there is a jumper that can be set on the card to map the >>>> card as ttys0 and 1, or 2 and 3. The reason I mention the >>>> special drivers is that I have a Perle Systems serial card in my >>>> desktop box. With the card, there was a drivers disk containing drivers >>>> for windows, Mac Os, and Linux. The Linux drivers were open source, and >>>> had to be compiled and installed, before the card would function. >>>> >>>> It's possible that the card manufactorer has a web site where the >>>> drivers can be downloaded, if they didn't ship a cd with the card. I >>>> hope these suggestions help. >>>> >>>> Gene Collins >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. >>>> To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] >>>> For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. >>>To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] >>>For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty >> _______________________________________________ >> This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. >> To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] >> For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty > >_______________________________________________ >This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. >To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] >For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
