PCI Serial Card - Debian

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 04:06:04PM -0400, Merv Curley wrote:
> I have been using a card with 2 ports for several years and a couple of days 
> ago I moved it to a new computer I just assembled.  Sidux 2008 is the distro 
> but it is basically Debian Sid with some Sidux utils.  Well so far the three 
> pieces of hardware I have tried don't work, they do with the onboard ttyS0.
> 
> Setserial - a /dev/ttyS1 indicates a 16550 Uart and assigned IRQ of 20.  Same 
> for ttyS2.  No UART in ttyS3.  
> 
> What else can I check to see if these should work?  Never had a problem before 
> with any distro and don't feel like installing SuSE 11/Mandriva etc just to 
> see if they initialize the ports.
> 
> Thoughts?  and thanks...

You may have to pass a command line argument to increase the number of
serial ports it looks for.

Or maybe you just need to load the driver module for the card if it
isn't loading automatically.

What does lspci and lspci -n show?

Does minicom work with the serial ports?

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