Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Multi port card configuration

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Serge Leschinsky wrote:

>Dear Sirs.
>
>I'm going to use multi serial port card (NetMos Nm9845CV) on DL 1.2.
>
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>>root@test:~ # lspci | grep NetMos
>>00:08.0 Serial controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9845 Multi-I/O Controller (rev 01)
>>    
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>There are only 2 serial ports in the system
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>>root@test:~ # ls /dev/ttyS*
>>/dev/ttyS0  /dev/ttyS1
>>    
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>I try  to create and configure the parameters for ttyS2-ttyS7
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>>root@test:~ # more /proc/pci
>>PCI devices found:
>>  Bus  0, device   8, function  0:
>>    Serial controller: PCI device 9710:9845 (NetMos Technology) (rev 1).
>>      IRQ 11.
>>      Master Capable.  Latency=32.
>>      I/O at 0x9000 [0x9007].
>>      I/O at 0x9400 [0x9407].
>>      I/O at 0x9800 [0x9807].
>>      I/O at 0x9c00 [0x9c07].
>>      I/O at 0xa000 [0xa007].
>>      I/O at 0xa400 [0xa40f].
>>    
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>I do the following:
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>>mknod -m 666 /dev/ttyS2 c 4 66
>>setserial  /dev/ttyS2 port 0x9000 UART 16550A irq 11 Baud_base 115200
>>mknod -m 666 /dev/ttyS3 c 4 67
>>setserial  /dev/ttyS3 port 0x9400 UART 16550A irq 11 Baud_base 115200
>>mknod -m 666 /dev/ttyS4 c 4 68
>>setserial  /dev/ttyS4 port 0x9800 UART 16550A irq 11 Baud_base 115200
>>mknod -m 666 /dev/ttyS5 c 4 69
>>setserial  /dev/ttyS5 port 0x9c00 UART 16550A irq 11 Baud_base 115200
>>mknod -m 666 /dev/ttyS6 c 4 70
>>setserial  /dev/ttyS6 port 0xa000 UART 16550A irq 11 Baud_base 115200
>>mknod -m 666 /dev/ttyS7 c 4 71
>>setserial  /dev/ttyS7 port 0xa400 UART 16550A irq 11 Baud_base 115200
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>But these ports don't work.
>So, what do I wrong?
>How can I add needed devices into distributive (I think creating /dev/ttySx
>by every boot is not "right" idea...)?
>
>Thank you an advance.
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The devices should be created automatically via devfs.
Did you load the module for the card ? Is the card supported by the 
vanilla kernel?

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