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Subject: Re: Syba 8-Port Serial Card Unidentified By Kernel
From: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
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On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 17:31 -0400, Chris Bergeron wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've just installed a multiport serial card released by an outfit called 
> Syba.  This is an 8 port serial-only card with an Octopus style breakout 
> cable.  The main chipset on it is an ITE IT8871F.
> 
> I've got two questions on this: Is there a driver I should try force 
> loading on it (and if so, what options to use)?  and is there any useful 
> testing I can do to report back to the LKML on this card?
> 
> Thanks for your time, diagnostic output follows.
> -- Chris
> 
> The following comes up from an "lspci -vv"
> 
> 01:06.0 Serial controller: PLX Technology, Inc. Unknown device 9016 (rev 
> 01) (prog-if 02 [16550])
>         Subsystem: Unknown device 544e:0008
>         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
>         Region 0: I/O ports at a000 [size=64]
>         Region 1: I/O ports at a400 [size=16]
>         Region 2: I/O ports at a800 [size=16]
>         Region 3: Memory at f5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>         Region 4: Memory at f5001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>         Region 5: Memory at f5002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

Try echo -n "10b5 9016" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/serial/new_id and let
Russell King (rmk+serial@arm.linux.org.uk) know if it works (or if it
doesn't, for that matter).

-- 
Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>

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