I have a new Rivendell system that I am trying desperately trying to bring online. I've been fighting with the serial ports to work for the last couple of weeks and I am posting here because think I need additional help.
The goal here is to control a BroadcastTools 8.2 switcher and a Unity 4000 satellite receiver. I am using the latest appliance, so CentOS 6.4 with Rivendell 2.5.5 (also tried with 2.7.1) running on an Intel DH87MC motherboard. The motherboard has no on-board serial ports, so I bought a Rosewill RC-301 PCI serial card. The card supposedly supports Linux, but their instructions seem incomplete and I could never get the switcher to budge even trying /dev/ttyS0 through /dev/ttyS3 with proper settings for the 8.2. I also purchased two different USB to Serial adapters, at least one of which uses the Prolific chipset. Both adapters show up automatically when plugged in as /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1 respectively, but neither can get the switcher to change channels. Finally, I pulled a SIIG CyberPro S4 PCI serial card out of our current Rivendell box. This card is old and is used to control the switcher and receiver throughout the day. That box runs version 1 of the appliance and is on CentOS 5 and Rivendell 2.0.2-1. When I set up that system, I do not remember doing anything special to make the card work. That same card does nothing in the new box, even though an exhaustive process of trying all /dev/ttySx addresses. I'm running out of ideas and and already running behind schedule. Does anyone have any additional insights? Am I missing something beyond the RDAdmin > Manage Hosts > Serial Ports that enables the ports to operate? Do I need to enable something in the bios? If there is another PCI serial card that for sure works out of the box with the appliance I will order it today. Please help! Ryan
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