PAM,
Have just installed a 4port serial card, I can say that it's
relatively painless.
The card that I used had 4 separate serial chips on it (16550)..
(Do you know what your's are? 16550A, 16650? )
You need to know the IO address for each port (different for each one)
and the Interrupts (IRQ) used by each port (which may be shared).
[ Does the card have jumpers on it to set the Interupt
and IO address for each port? Or is it configured some other way? ]
Then..
( you'll have the serial module (serial.o) because it's a RH 6.1
and it will be working.. you'll know this if you have a serial mouse
attached. :-)
use something like the following... for each port...
setserial /dev/ttyS4 port 0x2a0 irq 4 uart 16550
setserial /dev/ttyS5 post 0x2a8 irq 4 uart 16550
... etc ...
[ these were my settings, check 'ma
It you add these lines to the file
/etc/rc.d/rc.local
then they will get run every time your machine is booted.
You will need to do the following as well:
mknod /dev/ttyS4 c 4 68
mknod /dev/ttyS5 c 4 69
mknod /dev/ttyS6 c 4 70
mknod /dev/ttyS7 c 4 71
mknod /dev/ttyS8 c 4 72
mknod /dev/ttyS9 c 4 73
This creates the character device nodes, and only needs to be done
once.
You should be able to talk to each serial port by reading/writing to
the above character devices?
Good Luck,
PaulS
Pradish Mathews wrote:
>
> Hello friends,
>
> I have a specialix sx multiport serial card.
> My system is RH 6.1 & kernel-2.2.12.
>
> Can anyone tell me the exact procedure to follow for the installation.
> The sx card which i have is the EISA card.
>
>
> Thanks in advance !!!
>
> PAM
>
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