Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 17:44:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 17:44:51 -0500 Received: from s383.jpl.nasa.gov ([137.78.170.215]:7399 "EHLO s383.jpl.nasa.gov") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 17:44:48 -0500 Message-ID: <3E692356.2070705@jpl.nasa.gov> Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 14:55:18 -0800 From: Bryan Whitehead Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, zh, zh-cn, zh-hk, zh MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: devfs + PCI serial card = no extra serial ports References: <3E692281.10906@jpl.nasa.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1929 Lines: 56 BTW, this is with 2.4.19 (kernel shipped with distro).... I'm willing to test any patches / rebuild kernel to get this working..... Bryan Whitehead wrote: > It seems devfsd has an annoying "feature". I bought a PCI card to get a > couple (2) more serial ports. The kernel doesn't seem to set up the > serial ports at boot, so devfs never creates an entry. However, post > boot, since there is no entries, I cannot configure the serial ports > with setserial. So basically devfsd = no PCI based serial add on? > > 03:05.0 Serial controller: NetMos Technology 222N-2 I/O Card (2S+1P) > (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550]) > Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic (formerly NCR): Unknown device > 0002 > Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17 > I/O ports at ecf8 [size=8] > I/O ports at ece8 [size=8] > I/O ports at ecd8 [size=8] > I/O ports at ecc8 [size=8] > I/O ports at ecb8 [size=8] > I/O ports at eca0 [size=16] > > > mknod ttyS2 c 4 66 > mknod ttyS3 c 4 67 > setserial ttyS2 port 0xecf8 UART 16550A irq 17 Baud_base 9600 > setserial ttyS3 port 0xece8 UART 16550A irq 17 Baud_base 9600 > > I hoped after "setting up" the serial ports with setserial some magic > would happen and they would apear in /dev/tts... but I was wrong. > > gets me working serial ports... but it's not in /dev... :O > > Am I just screwed? > > If so, what would be a good add on PCI based solution for more serial > ports that WORKS with devfsd? (I don't want to disable devfs as this > opens up a different set of problems) > > Thanks for any replay! > -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 driver@jpl.nasa.gov - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/