Generic 2-port PCI Express Serial Card - how to get recognized?

[Karl Denninger]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 03:02:32PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Karl Denninger wrote:
> > Hi folks;
> >
> > I have a "generic" PCI Express "dumb" (16550 allegedly) serial card
> > that goes in a PCI Express slot.
> >
> > FreeBSD doesn't see it, which I assume has to do with the card's
> > "vendor ID" not being in the table that FreeBSD reocognizes.
> >
> > How do I get the ID from the probe (and/or probe the bus when the
> > machine is running?) - I assume I could add the vendor ID to the
> > sio_pci.c module and it MIGHT work, yes?
> >
> > It doesn't have a specific brand and documentation is basically
> > "zilch"; I figured it might work right out of the box, but so far, no
> > joy.
> 
> Have you tried loading puc? Unfortunately I think you will need to 
> recompile your kernel because it is not in GENERIC and not available as 
> a module.
> 
> Look at /usr/src/sys/dev/puc/pucdata.c for a list of vendor/device IDs 
> (and add yours if it isn't there).

That did it - thanks!  Works fine...

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