Tapan, What about this on your system ? Note "03f8-03ff : serial" on my system. [root@victor intel-536-537]# cat /proc/ioports 0000-001f : dma1 0020-0021 : pic1 0040-0043 : timer0 0050-0053 : timer1 0060-0060 : keyboard 0064-0064 : keyboard 0070-0071 : rtc0 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00a1 : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 0170-0177 : 0000:00:0f.1 0170-0177 : pata_via 01f0-01f7 : 0000:00:0f.1 01f0-01f7 : pata_via 0295-0296 : pnp 00:06 0376-0376 : 0000:00:0f.1 0376-0376 : pata_via 0378-037a : parport0 037b-037f : parport0 03c0-03df : vga+ 03e0-03e7 : pnp 00:06 03f2-03f5 : floppy 03f6-03f6 : 0000:00:0f.1 03f6-03f6 : pata_via 03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR 03f8-03ff : serial 0400-041f : pnp 00:06 0400-0407 : vt596_smbus 04d0-04d1 : pnp 00:06 0800-087f : pnp 00:06 0800-0803 : ACPI PM1a_EVT_BLK 0804-0805 : ACPI PM1a_CNT_BLK 0808-080b : ACPI PM_TMR 0810-0815 : ACPI CPU throttle 0820-0823 : ACPI GPE0_BLK 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1 d000-d0ff : 0000:00:12.0 d000-d0ff : via-rhine d480-d49f : 0000:00:10.0 d480-d49f : uhci_hcd d800-d81f : 0000:00:10.1 d800-d81f : uhci_hcd d880-d89f : 0000:00:10.2 d880-d89f : uhci_hcd dc00-dc1f : 0000:00:10.3 dc00-dc1f : uhci_hcd e000-e0ff : 0000:00:0f.0 e000-e0ff : sata_via e400-e40f : 0000:00:0f.0 e400-e40f : sata_via e480-e483 : 0000:00:0f.0 e480-e483 : sata_via e800-e807 : 0000:00:0f.0 e800-e807 : sata_via e880-e883 : 0000:00:0f.0 e880-e883 : sata_via ec00-ec07 : 0000:00:0f.0 ec00-ec07 : sata_via fc00-fc0f : 0000:00:0f.1 fc00-fc0f : pata_via [root@victor intel-536-537]# - http://vouters.dyndns.org:8080/ Philippe Vouters (Fontainebleau/France) Le jeudi 18 juin 2009 à 20:24 +0530, Tapan Chugh a écrit : > Philippe Vouters wrote: > > Dear Tapan, > > > > The dmesg output sounds very good. Now you ought to have the following > > devices : /dev/modem, /dev/537ep and /dev/537ep0. > > >From your lsmod, I cannot see a 8250 serial driver. > > What does $ lspci -vvv now says ? > > Regards, > > - > > http://vouters.dyndns.org:8080/ > > Philippe Vouters (Fontainebleau/France) > > > > > > > > > >> Dear Philippe > >> I have done make install but it did not crash > >> > >>> Here is the dmesg log > >>> > >>> > >> softserial:init_module() > >> hamcore module init > >> sound disabled > >> Intel 537EP card found > >> softcore: init struct done > >> softserial: venid 1543, dev 3052 > >> softserial_register_tty(): tty registered > >> softserial: init done > >> > >> Here is the lsmod output > >> > >> Module Size Used by > >> Intel537 4319588 1 > >> fuse 49436 2 > >> i915 53380 2 > >> drm 158260 3 i915 > >> ipt_MASQUERADE 6528 1 > >> iptable_nat 8712 1 > >> nf_nat 17944 2 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat > >> sco 12932 2 > >> bridge 43668 0 > >> stp 6148 1 bridge > >> bnep 14848 2 > >> l2cap 21504 3 bnep > >> bluetooth 48608 5 sco,bnep,l2cap > >> coretemp 9344 0 > >> hwmon 6300 1 coretemp > >> sunrpc 155924 3 > >> ip6t_REJECT 7296 2 > >> nf_conntrack_ipv6 15864 2 > >> ip6table_filter 6400 1 > >> ip6_tables 14736 1 ip6table_filter > >> ipv6 230132 30 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6 > >> cpufreq_ondemand 9996 2 > >> acpi_cpufreq 12172 0 > >> dm_multipath 17164 0 > >> uinput 10624 0 > >> snd_hda_intel 351124 1 > >> snd_seq_dummy 6660 0 > >> snd_seq_oss 30364 0 > >> snd_seq_midi_event 9600 1 snd_seq_oss > >> snd_seq 48576 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event > >> snd_seq_device 10124 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq > >> snd_pcm_oss 42496 0 > >> snd_mixer_oss 16896 1 snd_pcm_oss > >> snd_pcm 65924 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss > >> snd_timer 22024 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm > >> snd_page_alloc 11016 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm > >> snd_hwdep 10500 1 snd_hda_intel > >> snd 50616 12 > >> snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep > >> soundcore 9416 1 snd > >> iTCO_wdt 13732 0 > >> iTCO_vendor_support 6916 1 iTCO_wdt > >> ppdev 10372 0 > >> parport_pc 25620 0 > >> i2c_i801 12048 0 > >> i2c_core 21396 2 drm,i2c_i801 > >> e100 33804 0 > >> mii 8192 1 e100 > >> parport 31956 2 ppdev,parport_pc > >> pcspkr 6272 0 > >> floppy 51988 0 > >> ata_generic 8452 0 > >> pata_acpi 7680 0 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > Philippe, > > I have the 3 devices > However lspci -vvv still shows the same output. > > 04:00.0 Modem: SILICON Laboratories Intel 537 [Winmodem] (rev 04) > (prog-if 00 [Generic]) > Subsystem: SILICON Laboratories Device 3000 > Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- > Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B+ DisINTx- > Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- > <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- > Latency: 32 (250ns min, 15500ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21 > Region 0: Memory at 50001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] > Region 1: I/O ports at 1000 [size=256] > Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 > Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA > PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+) > Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- > Kernel driver in use: serial > > this is one thing i cannot understant. I have blacklisted the serial_cs > driver. However it still comes up >