Driver Questions NetMos.

[Reg Clemens]

I have a new board here that CLAIMS to work with LINUX, but I have yet to
see what drivers to use with it.

The first is a 4port serial board by SYBA,  lspci identifies it as

Serial Controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9845 Multi-I/O Controller (rev01)

I see this string  in ./pci/quirks.c: case PCI_DEVICE_ID_NETMOS_9845: when 
grepping
the sources, so expect that its part of some generic driver, but havent found 
that.

If I have a generic kernel, should the driver be loaded automagically?
And if so, how can I tell, without more info I cant tell where/what devices 
are going
to be created for the 4ports on this device?

Any help in getting me started with this card would be appreciated.

[Alan Cox]

> If I have a generic kernel, should the driver be loaded automagically?
> And if so, how can I tell, without more info I cant tell where/what devices 
> are going
> to be created for the 4ports on this device?

I would expect the PCI serial drivers to find it and create /dev/ttyS..
nodes for the serial ports. Check "dmesg" and see if they are reported.

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:53:21 +0000
Alan Cox  wrote:
> > If I have a generic kernel, should the driver be loaded
> > automagically? And if so, how can I tell, without more info I cant
> > tell where/what devices are going
> > to be created for the 4ports on this device?
>
> I would expect the PCI serial drivers to find it and
> create /dev/ttyS.. nodes for the serial ports. Check "dmesg" and see
> if they are reported.

I used one of those cards several years ago when I needed one more
serial port than the motherboard manufacturer thought that I needed. My
recollection is that it just plain worked. FWIW, I had another Netmos
card that gave me additional USB ports; again, it worked as advertized
without and configuration.

-- cmg