serial card on RC2 , RC3

[Milan Obuch]

On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 13:41:50 -0500 (EST)
Darrel <levitch at iglou.com> wrote:

> 
> >> Anyone know how to get serial cable working with StarTech "2 Port
> >> Native Express RS232 Serial Adapter Card with 16550 UART"?  It is
> >> part number PEX2S553.
> >>
> >> In my kernel I tried this:
> >>
> >> device puc
> >> device sio
> >> options COM_MULTIPORT
> >>
> >> in different variations.
> >>
> >> Also I tried in /boot/device.hints:
> >>
> >> hint.sio.2.flags="0x201"
> >> hint.sio.3.flags="0x201"
> >>
> >> It is obviously a cheap card, but I do have one working in a msft
> >> 7 machine.
> >>
> >
> > Please post some more information about your system.  pciconf -lv
> > and dmesg would both help developers see why the card isn't
> > detected.  If your system has been up for a while you may be better
> > off sending /var/run/dmesg.boot than the output of the dmesg
> > program.
> >
> 

Hi,

could you apply following patch to /usr/src/sys/dev/puc/pucdata.c and
rebuild your kernel and/or modules? This is the first thing I would
test, and it could even work, but no guarantee yet, naturally :)

--- pucdata.c   2013-10-23 22:51:08.000000000 +0200
+++ pucdata.c.mod       2013-12-27 20:09:36.000000000 +0100
@@ -1094,6 +1094,12 @@
            PUC_PORT_2P, 0x10, 4, 0,
        },
 
+       {   0x9710, 0x9922, 0xffff, 0,
+           "NetMos NM9922 Dual UART",
+           DEFAULT_RCLK,
+           PUC_PORT_2S, 0x10, 4, 0,
+       },
+
        {   0xb00c, 0x021c, 0xffff, 0,
            "IC Book Labs Gunboat x4 Lite",
            DEFAULT_RCLK,

[ dmesg and pciconf output snipped ]

Regards,
Milan