Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:19:05 -0800 From: Jim Pazarena <fhard@ccstores.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multi-port serial devices Message-ID: <43665209.6010908@ccstores.com> In-Reply-To: <200510311158.55967.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <43640997.8000905@ccstores.com> <200510311158.55967.jhb@freebsd.org>
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John Baldwin wrote:
> On Saturday 29 October 2005 07:45 pm, Jim Pazarena wrote:
>
>>just purchased Specialix SX modular high speed serial solution
>>
>>Specialix has changed their name (bought out by perhaps) to Perle.
>>
>>The FreeDSD 5.4 hardware compatibility list indicates
>>"Specialix SI/XIO/SX" multiport serial cards, are supports (si(4) driver)
>>
>>however a compile of the kernel with "device si" doesn't even
>>discover the card. The supplied DOS utility to probe the device works
>>as expected.
>>
>>Can anyone offer a suggestion.
>
>
> Is this a PCI card? If so, can you try adding it's device ID to the si(4)
> driver? If you aren't sure how to do that, just post the output of pciconf
> -lv and include the section of info about your card.
>
thank you VERY MUCH for the response!
yes it is indeed a PCI card, here is the pciconf -lv output
none8@pci2:7:0: class=0x078000 card=0x030011cb chip=0x200011cb rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Specialix International Ltd.'
device = 'PCI-9050 Target Interface'
class = simple comms
all I added to the MYKERNEL configuration is:
device si
your help is much appreciated!
Jim
this is my second $1000 purchase for a multi-port serial device to work with FreeBSD
my first purchase -> RocketPort just plain wouldn't work. The management is
getting frustrated with my purchases based on the Hardware Compatibility List.
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