Re: Syba 8-Port Serial Card Unidentified By Kernel

From: Andrey Panin
Date: Wed Oct 10 2007 - 05:54:49 EST


On 278, 10 05, 2007 at 05:31:05PM -0400, Chris Bergeron wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've just installed a multiport serial card released by an outfit called
> Syba. This is an 8 port serial-only card with an Octopus style breakout
> cable. The main chipset on it is an ITE IT8871F.

Are you sure ? IIRC IT887x are PCI-ISA bridges with additional periphery
and your lspci shows PLX chip. Can you send complete lspci -vv output ?
Output of dmesg could be useful too.

> I've got two questions on this: Is there a driver I should try force
> loading on it (and if so, what options to use)? and is there any useful
> testing I can do to report back to the LKML on this card?
>
> Thanks for your time, diagnostic output follows.
> -- Chris
>
> The following comes up from an "lspci -vv"
>
> 01:06.0 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 16
> Region 0: I/O ports at a000 [size=64]
> Region 1: I/O ports at a400 [size=16]
> Region 2: I/O ports at a800 [size=16]
> Region 3: Memory at f5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
> Region 4: Memory at f5001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
> Region 5: Memory at f5002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>
> and "lshw" outputs:
>
> *-communication UNCLAIMED
> description: Serial controller
> product: PLX Technology, Inc.
> vendor: PLX Technology, Inc.
> physical id: 6
> bus info: pci@0000:01:06.0
> version: 01
> width: 32 bits
> clock: 33MHz
> capabilities: 16550
> configuration: latency=0
>
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