Speakup and PCI Express Serial Cards

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Looks like this is the case. The irq/io addresses are defined in 
serialio.h. I'll modify it to use irq 16 and 0xCC00 tomorrow and give it a 
try.

Thanks!

Trevor


On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Gregory Nowak wrote:

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> For what it's worth, my guess is the irq, and i/o address are the
> problem. If you have a way to setup your card for irq 04, i/o 0x03F8,
> or any of the other standard irq and i/o ranges for ttyS1-ttyS3, I'd
> give a 99.999% guess that it should work. Hth.
>
> Greg
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> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:18:49AM -0500, Trevor Astrope wrote:
>> This is what I am thinking as well. Just fyi, the card doesn't use any
>> special drivers and is compatible with the linux serial driver, which is
>> built into my kernel. The company supports linux as well. This is why I
>> bought it. It was just supposed to work. <grin>
>>
>> Here is the output from setserial:
>>
>> /dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: 16950/954, Port: 0xcc00, IRQ: 16
>>         Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
>>         closing_wait: 3000
>>         Flags: spd_normal skip_test
>>
>> Does speakup get the serial port address from the bios? Since the card
>> isn't built-in, it would make sense that speakup can't find it, if this
>> is the case.
>>
>> Using lspci, it does list the card and the serial port address and irq.
>>
>> Btw, I did try changing the uart to 16550A, as the card supports this
>> uart type, but still no go.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Trevor
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