Hi Niels,
I don't really know why but the output of dmesg only shows my oboard
serial. I have looked all over the dmesg and i cannot find the device
even at an unknown state
I have even checked dmesg log for the matter.
These are discovered for the onboard serial ports.
kernel: serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
kernel: serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
kernel: 00:0c: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
kernel: 00:0d: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
I will try and remove the card to read what it says exactly on the chip
and update the email. Its definitely ITE but i will give u exactly what
it says on chip.
Output for /proc/ioports:
0000-001f : dma1
0020-0021 : pic1
0040-0043 : timer0
0050-0053 : timer1
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-0077 : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00a1 : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
02f8-02ff : serial
0376-0376 : ide1
0378-037a : parport0
03c0-03df : vga+
03f2-03f5 : floppy
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR
03f8-03ff : serial
0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
1000-107f : 0000:00:1f.0
1000-107f : motherboard
1000-1003 : ACPI PM1a_EVT_BLK
1004-1005 : ACPI PM1a_CNT_BLK
1008-100b : ACPI PM_TMR
1010-1015 : ACPI CPU throttle
1028-102b : ACPI GPE0_BLK
102c-102f : ACPI GPE1_BLK
1180-11bf : 0000:00:1f.0
1180-11bf : motherboard
1800-180f : 0000:00:1f.1
1800-1807 : ide0
1808-180f : ide1
1810-181f : 0000:00:1f.3
1810-181f : i801_smbus
1820-183f : 0000:00:1f.2
1820-183f : uhci_hcd
1840-185f : 0000:00:1f.4
1840-185f : uhci_hcd
2000-2fff : PCI Bus #02
2000-20ff : 0000:02:0c.0
2000-20ff : 8139too
2400-243f : 0000:02:08.0
2400-243f : e100
2440-247f : 0000:02:0e.0
2480-248f : 0000:02:0e.0
2490-249f : 0000:02:0e.0
fe00-fe00 : motherboard
Thanks
Chris
Niels de Vos wrote:
Hello Christopher,
Christopher wrote:
I have tried:
Debian 5
Fedora Live CD 11
Ubuntu 8.10
CentOS 5.2 custom kernel from kernel.org with almost all modules enabled
Great testing. The Fedora Live CD 11 contains a very recent kernel
and should recognize all known (at least to me) ITE-chips.
Nothing recognizes it. All output is same on lspci.
Not only lspci is important, also the output of dmesg (grep for tty)
and the file /proc/ioports.
I have CCed linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx as well with output of lspci -vv
02:0e.0 Serial controller: PLX Technology, Inc. Unknown device 9016 (rev
01) (prog-if 02 [16550])
Subsystem: Unknown device 544e:0008
Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 169
Region 0: I/O ports at 2440 [disabled] [size=64]
Region 1: I/O ports at 2490 [disabled] [size=16]
Region 2: I/O ports at 2480 [disabled] [size=16]
Region 3: Memory at f2003000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[disabled] [size=4K]
Region 4: Memory at f2002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[disabled] [size=4K]
Region 5: Memory at f2001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[disabled] [size=4K]
Compared this to one of the ITE-chips here. I'm not convinced this is
a chip by ITE. Can you tell me the exact type of it887x (x=...)?
My main server runs Linux 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 12:03:43
EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux (CentOS 5.2)
I have attached the "drivers" they gave me for 2.6 kernel supposedly.
Although i believe its for the 2.4 as the readme that it has its for 2.4
kernel.
This rough patch was available for kernel-2.4. As nobody But ITE could
provide us (Wincor-Nixdorf) with drivers for kernel-2.6. I was assigned
to implement the serial-part of the driver in 8250_pci.c.
Hope that helps,
Niels
Thanks
Regards,
Chris
Niels de Vos wrote:
Christopher wrote:
Im currently compiling my own kernel use guide from
http://howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_centos
Site is down atm... Don't refresh your browser ;)
Using the latest kernel from kernel.org and my current .config
You believe this will have the drivers needed?
Yes, that should work.
Please send me a little update on you success (or not).
Thanks,
Niels
Thanks
Chris
Niels de Vos wrote:
Christopher wrote:
I have tried to install the kernel as you said:
[root@Server ~]# rpm -ivh --nodeps
http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.29/0.137.rc5.git4.fc11/i586/kernel-2.6.29-0.137.rc5.git4.fc11.i586.rpm
Retrieving
http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.29/0.137.rc5.git4.fc11/i586/kernel-2.6.29-0.137.rc5.git4.fc11.i586.rpm
Preparing...
###########################################
[100%]
1:kernel ###########################################
[100%]
WARNING: No module ehci-hcd found for kernel
2.6.29-0.137.rc5.git4.fc11.i586, continuing anyway
WARNING: No module ohci-hcd found for kernel
2.6.29-0.137.rc5.git4.fc11.i586, continuing anyway
WARNING: No module uhci-hcd found for kernel
2.6.29-0.137.rc5.git4.fc11.i586, continuing anyway
WARNING: No module ata_piix found for kernel
2.6.29-0.137.rc5.git4.fc11.i586, continuing anyway
Usage: new-kernel-pkg [-v] [--mkinitrd] [--rminitrd]
[--initrdfile=<initrd-image>] [--depmod] [--rmmoddep]
[--kernel-args=<args>] [--remove-args=<args>]
[--banner=<banner>] [--multiboot=multiboot]
[--mbargs=mbargs] [--make-default]
<--install | --remove | --update> <kernel-version>
(ex: new-kernel-pkg --mkinitrd --depmod --install 2.4.7-2)
error: %posttrans(kernel-2.6.29-0.137.rc5.git4.fc11.i586) scriptlet
failed, exit status 1
[root@Server ~]#
It fails to install the kernel.
Hmm, same here... Tried to create the initrd with mkinitrd but it won't
detect my AHCI-drives... Unable to boot the system completely.
You might be able to create a working initrd manually, after installing
the kernel with 'rpm -ivh --nodeps --noscripts ...'. However, easiest
would be to update the mkinitrd-package to the required version and
install the kernel after that.
Alternatively you might try an older version of the kernel 2.6.23+. Or
download and try with a Fedora-10-Live CD/USB.
Hope that helps,
Niels
Any ideas?
Thanks
Niels de Vos wrote:
Hello Chris,
Christopher wrote:
I have bought off ebay the 8port Serial DB9 adapter with ITE8871
chipset
and my CentOS5.1 with Kernel 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 does not seem to
recognize it.
ITE887x hardware gets recognised with kernel 2.6.23 and newer.
RHEL has
not included a backport for this driver (so CentOS also didn't).
I know some people use a Fedora kernel on CentOS. You can download
the
most recent version from here:
<http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8>
I don't know if the RPM just installs like that (probably not).
But for
some testing it should be okay to install the RPM with
'rpm -ivh --nodeps kernel....rpm'.
If the ports still don't work as expected, please re-post the
output of
'lspci -vv' and the relevant parts from 'dmesg' to me with a CC to
linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Good luck :)
Niels
lspci -vv shows
02:0e.0 Serial controller: PLX Technology, Inc. Unknown device 9016
(rev
01) (prog-if 02 [16550])
Subsystem: Unknown device 544e:0008
Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 169
Region 0: I/O ports at 2440 [disabled] [size=64]
Region 1: I/O ports at 2490 [disabled] [size=16]
Region 2: I/O ports at 2480 [disabled] [size=16]
Region 3: Memory at f2003000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[disabled] [size=4K]
Region 4: Memory at f2002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[disabled] [size=4K]
Region 5: Memory at f2001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[disabled] [size=4K]
I saw online in a post from KernelTrap you wrote at
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2007/3/26/70429 that
you
created a patch for this.
Since i have no idea from C language and how to load the driver can
you
please let me know what to do to properly load the driver?
Thanks a lot for your time and assistance.
Chris
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