[BRLTTY] some serial help

[Rob Hudson]

Ok, I did that and get:
/dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0xd010, IRQ: 17
Still no joy. Any other suggestions?
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From: <acollins at icsmail.net>
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<brltty at mielke.cc>
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] some serial help


> 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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>>From: <acollins at icsmail.net>
>>To: "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY."
>><brltty at mielke.cc>
>>Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 10:56 AM
>>Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] some serial help
>>
>>
>>> 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?
>>>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>>>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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