[CentOS] Serial port driver on CentOS 6

Ljubomir Ljubojevic office at plnet.rs
Thu Jan 5 22:26:33 UTC 2012


On 01/05/2012 11:10 PM, Alfred von Campe wrote:
> I installed CentOS 6 on a Dell Optiplex 790 with a StarTech.com dual serial
> port card, and the serial ports aren't being recognized.  According to dmesg,
> only the built-in serial port is being recognized:
>
> # dmesg | fgrep ttyS
> serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> 00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
>
> And lspci -v doesn't show that any drivers are loaded for it:
>
> # lspci -v
> [snip]
> 03:00.0 Serial controller: NetMos Technology PCIe 9922 Multi-I/O Controller (prog-if 02 [16550])
>          Subsystem: Device a000:1000
>          Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 16
>          I/O ports at 2010 [size=8]
>          Memory at e1a30000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>          Memory at e1a20000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>          Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+
>          Capabilities: [78] Power Management version 3
>          Capabilities: [80] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
>          Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel<?>
>          Capabilities: [800] Advanced Error Reporting
>
> 03:00.1 Serial controller: NetMos Technology PCIe 9922 Multi-I/O Controller (prog-if 02 [16550])
>          Subsystem: Device a000:1000
>          Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 17
>          I/O ports at 2000 [size=8]
>          Memory at e1a10000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>          Memory at e1a00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>          Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+
>          Capabilities: [78] Power Management version 3
>          Capabilities: [80] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
>          Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
>
> What do I need to do to get these serial ports recognized?  On some other
> CentOS 6 systems with StarTech.com serial cards they were automatically
> recognized (different hardware and not PCIe based).
>

Check this thread:
https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=34250


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