At 01:49 PM 5/28/00 , Ray Olszewski said:
Yo Ray,
>Hi, Seamus. I'm replying mainly becaue today is Sunday, and the list tends
>to be slow on weekends (especially a holiday weekend in the USA).
Thanks...I'm sitting here trying to work this out cause it's pouring down
rain and I don't think the picnic I was supposed to go to today will be so
great.
>First, does the card absolutely require PnP for its setup, or is there an
>option to assign it a fixed IRQ and IO port base some other way? If you
>have any alternative, don't use isapnp.
As far as I can tell, it's PnP or nothing. No jumpers on the board and
looking through all available documentation there's not mention of a
software or card bios solution for disabling it.
>If you must use isapnp, you'll have to describe your problems in more detail
>than "I did the pnpdump, edited the conf file to what I thought was right
>but got errors about allocating the memory." We can't guess, with any hope
>of accuracy, what you "thought was right" or what the errors were. You need
>to show us the details.
Ok, I'll capture the isapnp results and post them here.
>You might also want to consult the PnP HowTo
>(http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO.html). It might give you
>more direct help than an article on sound card installation will.
Had a look and it was pretty general...mainly described what options there
are without a whole lot of detail.
>Second, once you have the card set up, you need to have a serial port device
>pointing to it. You can do this with "setserial". Since you don't say what
>else you have in your system, I'll guess this is the third serial port,
It is the 3rd serial port.....Com1 & Com2 being on the motherboard (though
unused). I could always use one of those as a last resort if I can't get
this other board setup. This board has the newer UART on it which works
better for ISDN connections (230K vs 128K through a 16550) so I really want
to get it working. Actually I probably wouldn't want to use one of the mb
com ports as this turboexpress card works great in Win98 and if I was to
use it through the motherboard instead, I'd pretty much have to commit to
that for both OSs...or keep switching the cable to the different ports.
>you need /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 (the Linux devices that correspond to
>COM1 and COM2) for your regular serial ports. So you can use /dev/ttyS2
>(COM3) with this port by entering this command:
>
> setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 5 port 0x3e8
>
>To check if this worked, you then enter
> setserial /dev/ttyS2
>with no arguments; if the response includes the right UART type, the device
>now points to the serial port.
Will try this...
>Third, it is not clear whether you need to add a module or not. What kernel
>version are you running?
Latest one....2.2.14
>Does it have serial-port support compiled in or
>not? (Does it report finding any serial ports during the boot/init sequence?
>Can you use the built-in serial ports already?)
I did a "recommended: install so I have whatever that installs (full
install I think). Would have to check next time I start Linux. Will do
that. Is there anywhere in KDE that I can look up "installed" hardware?
Those startup messages fly by pretty fast.
>If you do need to add a module ... the method of adding modules is one of
>the more distribution-specific variations in Linux, so without knowing what
>distribution and kernel version you use, I can't offer focused help.
Ok, sorry bout that.....Mandrake 7.02
Thanks,
Jim
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