[BRLTTY] some serial help

acollins at icsmail.net acollins at icsmail.net
Tue Jun 25 11:56:13 EDT 2013


Well, it certainly looks like it.  Next, try googling for netmos on the
web, and see what you can find.

>Okay, I did this command
>lspci -v
>and got this:
>02:09.0 Serial controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller 
>(rev
>01) (prog-if 02 [16550])
>Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic Device 0001
>Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17
>I/O ports at d010 [size=8]
>I/O ports at d018 [size=8]
>I/O ports at d020 [size=8]
>I/O ports at d028 [size=8]
>I/O ports at d030 [size=8]
>I/O ports at d000 [size=16]
>Kernel driver in use: serial
>That looks like the ports should be working, right? Is it normal to have 
>that many IO ports?
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>To: "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY." 
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>Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 10:28 PM
>Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] some serial help
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>> Hi Rob.  What make is your serial card?  Some cards come with special
>> drivers that need to be loaded before you can use the card.  It's also
>> possible that there is a jumper that can be set on the card to map the
>> card as ttys0 and 1, or 2 and 3.  The reason I mention the
>> special drivers is that I have a Perle Systems serial card in my
>> desktop box.  With the card, there was a drivers disk containing drivers
>> for windows, Mac Os, and Linux.  The Linux drivers were open source, and
>> had to be compiled and installed, before the card would function.
>>
>> It's possible that the card manufactorer has a web site where the
>> drivers can be downloaded, if they didn't ship a cd with the card.  I
>> hope these suggestions help.
>>
>> Gene Collins
>>
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