[BRLTTY] some serial help

[acollins at icsmail.net]

You could try a setserial command like setserial ttyS0 uart 1650 or
such.  From your earlier setserial session, it appears that the kernel
is not recognizing the uarts on your card.

>Okay, it looks like there's some kind of hardware problem. I did:
>dmesg | grep ttyS
>and get a whole bunch of lines that look something like this:
>[ 9886.996672] ttyS0: LSR safety check engaged!
>People are telling me I have to get into the bios and do something with IRQ 
>fiddling. Is there an alternative?
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>> 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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>>>From: <acollins at icsmail.net>
>>>To: "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY."
>>><brltty at mielke.cc>
>>>Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 10:28 PM
>>>Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] some serial help
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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