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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:48:53 -0400
From: Chris Bergeron <chris@pcburn.com>
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To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
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Subject: Re: Syba 8-Port Serial Card Unidentified By Kernel
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Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 01:02:12PM -0400, Chris Bergeron wrote:
>   
>> One chip has "ITE IT8871F 0641-AYS ZF1M04L" written on it, and the other 
>> two have  a stylized celtic knot looking "T" followed by "TG16C554CJG 
>> FTA6M-001 0620-B".
>>     
>
> The 8871 is a single PCI parallel port, so certainly somehow they are
> controlling the two serial to parallel chips through that pci parallel
> port.
>
> I included the diff of the files you had on your web page and the
> originals founds in 2.4.20 (which is what they claim they replace).
>
> I can't really tell if there is any code there to deal with their quad
> uart chip or not.
>   
I'll see if I can compile up the appropriate kernel and test it with 
that code to see if it includes something to drive the card then, for 
starters.

-- Chris
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