PCI Serial Card in Fedora 12 or Fedora 15

maan.afzal · 04-17-2012, 03:43 AM

I need to work on a project that requires multiple serial ports. I am using Fedora 12 and Fedora 15. Is there any PCI Serial card that can fulfill my needs.
I have tried QUATECH DSC-100/550 PCI Serial card. It has two serial ports in it. I tried to connect it in Fedora 15. . But i couldn't. Can someone please tell me how to make DSC-100 work with Fedora 15 or 12. Or tell me some other Board that can provide PCI serial communication in Fedora 15 or 12.

Imran

John VV · 04-17-2012, 04:19 AM

you might want to have a look at the fedora End Of Life section on
fedoraforum
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=75

fedora 12 has been unsupported for a long time and 15 will hit End Of Life in June

maan.afzal · 04-17-2012, 05:03 AM

My question was about the board. Which PCI serial board work with latest versions of fedora. I don't need EOL thing.

cascade9 · 04-17-2012, 05:15 AM

You 'might not need the EOL thing'. John VV was just trying to help you out, and the rest of us for that matter (out of support, unsecure OSes can hurt everybody on the net).

Try the drivers from the Quatech site-

http://www.quatech.com/support/drivers_pci.php

maan.afzal · 04-17-2012, 05:29 AM

hey cascade9,
I have tried these drivers but they didn't work on FC15. I asked Quatech.Inc about this issue and they said they don't have support for FC15. Please help on working with multiple serial ports in FC15.

cascade9 · 04-17-2012, 05:41 AM

If quatech says its not suppoted for FC15, you may have no way to get it working.

List your 'lspci' output (in 'code' tags. its the # symbol abopve the posting area). It might help myself or another forum user to get a bit further.

maan.afzal · 04-17-2012, 05:47 AM

Here is the output of lspci

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JDO (ICH10DO) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) 4-port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) 2-port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
04:02.0 Multiport serial controller: Quatech Inc DSC-100 (rev 11)

My dear i don't say that i need to work on DSC-100 card. My need is multiple serial ports. You may suggest me someother card from some other company or vendor. I will get the other card for my work. It will be the best if DSC-100 start working. But not the only solution.