Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 19:00:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 19:00:33 -0500 Received: from pa91.banino.sdi.tpnet.pl ([213.76.211.91]:12555 "EHLO alf.amelek.gda.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 18:59:35 -0500 Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 01:10:05 +0100 To: Bryan Whitehead Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: devfs + PCI serial card = no extra serial ports Message-ID: <20030308001005.GA20120@alf.amelek.gda.pl> References: <3E692281.10906@jpl.nasa.gov> <3E692B1C.5010607@jpl.nasa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E692B1C.5010607@jpl.nasa.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Marek Michalkiewicz Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1853 Lines: 45 On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:28:28PM -0800, Bryan Whitehead wrote: > I just found this: > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0212.2/0845.html > > Has this patch been accepted into the new kernel series? Or should I > just toss this card (the NetMos PCI I/O card)? No, and no. Try these patches (apply in this order, may need some hand-patching to apply to the current 2.4.21-pre source): http://www.amelek.gda.pl/linux-patches/2.4.20-pre9/00_parport_serial http://www.amelek.gda.pl/linux-patches/2.4.20-pre9/01_netmos Please test - I'd like to know if it works for you. It should - I have 3 such cards in 2 servers, running patched 2.4.20 kernel in production use for 3 months now (mainly serial ports used, but 2S1P cards were cheaper than 2S cards...). Attempts to submit the changes have been ignored, so I gave up... NetMos support was already in early 2.4.x kernels, later removed: * parport_serial.c: Remove NetMos support, since it causes problems for some people. No idea what exactly these problems are, who "some people" are, why NetMos support was not simply made a config option conditional on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL, and why the link order bugfix (separate patch, which only fixes an obvious bug) has been ignored too. Perhaps you will have more luck than I did - test your card with the patches for some time, if it works try to submit the patches again... > >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. I don't use devfs, so I never had this problem. Hope this helps, Marek - 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/