Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 21:29:06 +0000
From: Hal MacArgle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Greetings: Just received a complimentary dual PCI serial card as
pacification from the vendor because my onboard serial ports broke.
I suspect it cannot be used under Linux and I don't have Win9X/NT to
look at the supplied disk software..
Disabling the serial BIOS entry and booting I find that - cat
/proc/pci lists the two ports but says "unknown uart." I'm not
familiar enough to decipher but I do see some verbiage like, "Oxford
0X16c95x" family of uarts.. setserial reports zero adapters as does
msd or mft from Dos.. I'm lost...Could this be yet another
WinDevice?? Can there be a "simple" solution, other than using an ISP
serial card, now used temporarily - but I need that slot for
something else..
No, the Oxford 16950 is a recognized UART. What you need to do is use
lspci to manually set the port information for one of your /dev/ttyS*
devices. Also if send me the output from lspci -v, I'll enable future
versions of the serial driver to automatically configure serial ports
for this PCI serial board. See http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/serial/
for more information.
- Ted
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