I've just installed a multiport serial card. This is an 8 port serial-only card. The main chipset on it is an ITE IT8871F.
I've got questions : Is there a driver I should try force
loading on it (and if so, what options to use)?
PCI to Serial Quad 8-port Controller Card
Chipset: ITE 8871
on:
Ubuntu 10.10 Linux Server - Linux ubuntu 2.6.35-22-generic
lspci -vv show:
02:04.0 Serial controller: PLX Technology, Inc. PLX 9016 8-port serial controller (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550])
Subsystem: Device 544e:0008
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR+ INTx-
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
Region 0: I/O ports at b000 [size=64]
Region 1: I/O ports at ac00 [size=16]
Region 2: I/O ports at a800 [size=16]
Region 3: Memory at feafe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Region 4: Memory at feafd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Region 5: Memory at feafc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
lshw show:
*-communication UNCLAIMED
description: Serial controller
product: PLX 9016 8-port serial controller
vendor: PLX Technology, Inc.
physical id: 4
bus info: pci@0000:02:04.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: 16550
configuration: latency=0
resources:
ioport:b000(size=64)
ioport:ac00(size=16)
ioport:a800(size=16)
memory:
feafe000-feafefff
feafd000-feafdfff
feafc000-feafcfff
lspci -xxx show:
02:04.0 Serial controller: PLX Technology, Inc. PLX 9016 8-port serial controller (rev 01)
00: b5 10 16 90 03 01 80 02 01 02 00 07 00 00 00 00
10: 01 b0 00 00 01 ac 00 00 01 a8 00 00 00 e0 af fe
20: 00 d0 af fe 00 c0 af fe 00 00 00 00 4e 54 08 00
30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 01 00 00
40: 3f 3f 08 00 00 8c 20 8b 45 54 55 45 00 00 10 d2
50: 01 01 71 03 01 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
60: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 06 f8 03 f8 02
80: 78 03 78 07 00 08 00 07 00 01 20 01 40 01 60 01
90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 70 43 25 64
a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Please, help.
