Re: lirc and pcie serial/parallel card

[Jarod W. <ja...@wi...>]

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Christoph Bartelmus <li...@ba...> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Jarod Wilson "ja...@wi..." wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Matt Shaw <sha...@gm...> wrote:
> [...]
>>> I had planned to use a serial lirc receiver/blaster combo on ttyS0 and
>>> another blaster on ttyS1, both
>>> bought from irblaster.info. nb. I am using Mythbuntu 10.04
>>>
>>> Can anyone please help me get around this
>
>> Its not quite clear what "this" is. But one thing to keep in mind:
>> lirc_serial will *only* work on serial ports at the traditional legacy
>> addresses:
> [...]
>> If the ports on that card are using different I/O addresses or irq
>> numbers, they won't work.
>
> No, this is wrong. As long as the chipset is 16450 compatible, it will
> work with any io/irq settings. Just use the io/irq module parameters.

Oh, hrm. I've apparently been interpreting the io and irq modinfo
output too literally for quite some time then. :)

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Jarod Wilson
ja...@wi...