Re: Syba 8-Port Serial Card Unidentified By Kernel

[Andrey Panin]

On 278, 10 05, 2007 at 05:31:05PM -0400, Chris Bergeron wrote:
> 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.

Are you sure ? IIRC IT887x are PCI-ISA bridges with additional periphery
and your lspci shows PLX chip. Can you send complete lspci -vv output ?
Output of dmesg could be useful too.

> 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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