Syba 8-Port Serial Card Unidentified By Kernel

From: Chris Bergeron
Date: Fri Oct 05 2007 - 17:38:18 EST


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.

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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