Ken,
I cannot give specific help specific, but you did say "all help is
appreciated", so:
1) In the later releases of RH they talk about the cua devices becoming
obsolete and the ttys devices replacing them.
2) The documnetaion at The Linux Documentation Project's:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html
and
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PCI-HOWTO.html (a little old, 1997)
gives a good understanding of ports and stuff. I also remember reading
in the HOWTO about not trusting the info in /proc too much.
Shaheen.
Ken Cole wrote:
>
> RH5.2 Standard kernel
>
> Base machine only had one serial port /dev/cua1
>
> Added PCI multi i/o card with two serial ports which supposedly auto set
> up as DOS com2 and com3 if put in a machien with a com1 only.
>
> cat /proc/pci sees the card as follows:
>
> Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
> Serial controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 1).
> Vendor id=1409. Device id=7168.
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10.
> I/O at 0xd000.
>
> and /dev/cua* shows:
>
> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 5, 64 May 6 1998 /dev/cua0
> crw-r----- 1 root uucp 5, 65 Dec 21 14:21 /dev/cua1
> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 5, 66 May 6 1998 /dev/cua2
> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 5, 67 May 6 1998 /dev/cua3
>
> /dev/cua1 was "created" on the reboot after putting in the card. That
> is the date and time of the reboot.
>
> My question: Is this all I have to do? Should I now be able to use
> /dev/cua1?
>
> I am sceptical as cat /proc/interrupts does not show 10 in use and cat
> /proc/iiports does not show 0xd000 in use or am I reading to much into
> this?
>
> All help is very appreciated.
>
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