[mythtv-users] serial ports (take two. i think the first one got lost)

[brian boyle]

Thats all good advice thanks i will try the and if that does not work i will
try the idea that were presented my some of fine folks in the orginal
posting.

Thanks all. I will report back so that other may also benefit from this
experiance. ;-)

On 5/31/06, Nick <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 31/05/06, brian boyle <homepvr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hey folks.
> >
> >    I just recently replaced my backend server with something newer and
> much
> > more robust (P4D 3gig with a gig of ram and 1.25 terabytes of storage).
> i am
> > very happy with the system except the fact that many new motherboards
> only
> > come with one serial port. this is the case for me and this is a problem
> as
> > i am feeding my two PVR-250's from my two satellite receivers and i need
> the
> > second port to change channels on the second receiver. i bought a
> startech
> > pci serial port card, but i am having trouble with it. I spoke with them
> and
> > they did not have a lot to day about it and i am hoping someone here
> will be
> > able to help. when i do an LSPCI i get the following
> >
> >  06:02.0 Serial controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9835 Multi-I/O
> Controller
> > (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550])
> >         Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic Unknown device 0001
> >         Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17
> >         I/O ports at 1070 [size=8]
> >         I/O ports at 1068 [size=8]
> >         I/O ports at 1060 [size=8]
> >         I/O ports at 1058 [size=8]
> >         I/O ports at 1050 [size=8]
> >         I/O ports at 1040 [size]
> >
> > this makes me believe that the OS is aware of the card and it is just
> not
> > installing the drivers. i am including a list of /proc/modules just in
> case
> > it helps.
>
> (Normally you may not see your own messages on the list until someone
> replies to them. You can check the gossamer archives to make sure
> though ;-) )
>
> Are you seeing any /dev/ttySx devices being created?
>
> ## ll /dev/ttyS*
>
> What does your syslog say?
>
> grep "ttyS" /var/log/messages
>
> I might try disabling the onboard serial port and see if this helps at
> all.
>
> Nick
>
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