On Tuesday 15 June 2004 10:09, Tony S. Sykes wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mikkel L.
> Ellertson Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 6:55 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Serial Card Installation
>
> Frans Ketelaars wrote:
> >On Monday 14 June 2004 17:02, Tony S. Sykes wrote:
> >>Hi All,
> >>
> >>I am trying to install a 2 port serial card. I have been googling
> >> and found some info but just need the steps made a bit clearer. I
> >> understand that I need the lspci -vv (below) to get the values for
> >> the card. I have also printed the dmesg output as well. I also
> >> read I need to MAKEDEV but I tried this and created a dev
> >> directory with the name of the new tty device I was trying to
> >> create. Any help, manuals would be a great help.
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>
> >>Tony.
> >>
> >>lspci -vv
> >>
> >>00:0c.0 Serial controller: NetMos Technology 222N-2 I/O Card
> >> (2S+1P) (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550])
> >> Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic: Unknown device 0002
> >> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> >>ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
> >> Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
> >>
> >>>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> >>
> >> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
> >> Region 0: I/O ports at d000 [size=8]
> >> Region 1: I/O ports at cc00 [size=8]
> >> Region 2: I/O ports at c800 [size=8]
> >> Region 3: I/O ports at c400 [size=8]
> >> Region 4: I/O ports at c000 [size=8]
> >> Region 5: I/O ports at bc00 [size=16]
> >>
> >>dmesg
> >>
> >>ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> >>ttyS4 at I/O 0xd000 (irq = 11) is a 16550A
> >>ttyS5 at I/O 0xcc00 (irq = 11) is a 16550A
> >
> >It seems to me the kernel found the two new serial ports named ttyS4
> > and ttyS5?
> >
> >HTH,
> >
> > -Frans
>
> I think you are right. From the looks of things, Linux know how to
> handle that PCI card, and is assigning the ports to /dev/ttyS4 and
> /dev/ttyS5 (or /dev/tty/S4 and /dev/tty/S5) I believe the reason it
> is not using /dev/ttyS1 and /dev/ttyS2 is that there are addresses
> associated with /dev/ttyS0 through /dev/ttyS3 and they are not always
> detected at boot time, depending on boot parametors. (COM1 through
> COM4 in DOS.) So the PCI ports are assigned to the ports after them.
> Depending on what you are planning to use the ports for, you will
> probably be creating, or having the system create links to them from
> more descriptive names. (modem, mouse, pilot, camera, etc...)
>
> Mikkel
> Okay, mandy has found the to ports, so I have connected my modem to
> one of the ports but Mandy can't find the modem. So what do I need to
> do next?
> Thanks,
> Tony.
Are you using MCC to configure an internet connection with the modem? If
so you can tell it to use /dev/ttyS4 or /dev/ttyS5 in Mandrake 10.
HTH,
-Frans
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