installing a pci-x serial card in a 2850

[Jerry Yu]

glad to see the Startek line is supported. I am considering buying thier
8-port expansion card for a PE1850 or PE2850 for a new serial console.

On 10/30/06, Mann, Andrew <amann at ea.com> wrote:
>
>         Is there any reason why USB -> Serial adaptors wouldn't work?
> Seems like a PCI-X card is overkill.
>
> Andrew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Brandon Coale
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 8:02 PM
> To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
> Subject: Fw: installing a pci-x serial card in a 2850
>
> FYI, if anyone else is in a situation where they need to add a pci-x
> serial
> card under RHEL.
>
> I ended up scrapping the SIIG card and purchased a pci-x card from
> vendor
> StarTech, part number PCI2S5503V, website:
>
> http://www.startech.com/Product/ItemDetail.aspx?productid=PCI2S5503V&c=U
> S
>
> This card was automatically detected by RHEL4, and it has two serial
> ports:
>
> [root at localhost ~]# dmesg |grep -i 16550
> Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
> ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> ttyS4 at I/O 0xbce0 (irq = 50) is a 16550A
> ttyS5 at I/O 0xbce8 (irq = 50) is a 16550A
> [root at localhost ~]# setserial -g /dev/ttyS*
> /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
> /dev/ttyS1, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
> /dev/ttyS2, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
> /dev/ttyS3, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3
> /dev/ttyS4, UART: 16550A, Port: 0xbce0, IRQ: 50
> /dev/ttyS5, UART: 16550A, Port: 0xbce8, IRQ: 50
> /dev/ttyS6, UART: unknown, Port: 0x0000, IRQ: 0
> /dev/ttyS7, UART: unknown, Port: 0x0000, IRQ: 0
>
> I let my Dell S&P rep know about this StarTech card as well.
>
> Thanks,
> Brandon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brandon Coale
> To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:53 AM
> Subject: installing a pci-x serial card in a 2850
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I bought a PowerEdge 2850 preinstalled with RHEL4 two months ago, and
> would
> like to add a second serial port. My Dell Software&Peripheral rep sold
> me a
> SIIG PCI-X card.
>
> The vendor SIIG doesn't officially support this card in Linux, but I
> installed it anyway to see if it would be autodetected. It did not get
> autodetected by the serial driver. One thing that is interesting is the
> vendor's specs for this card says it has a 16550 UART, but the lspci
> output
> shows it as 16950.
>
> Does anyone know if there is a simple way to get this card working, or
> would
> I be better off buying a card that supports Linux?
>
> Below shows my lspci output, dmesg output, setserial display, and the
> link
> to the vendor's card. The built-in serial port is enabled as COM1 in the
> bios, and shows up in the output.
>
> Thanks,
> Brandon Coale
> bcoale at freeway.net
>
> http://www.siig.com/product.asp?query=jj-p10211&pid=199
>
> 0a:03.0 Serial controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd EXSYS EX-41092 Dual
> 16950 Serial adapter (prog-if 06 [16950])
> Subsystem: Siig Inc: Unknown device 2000
> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
> Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR-
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 50
> Region 0: I/O ports at bce0 [size=32]
> Region 1: Memory at fdfff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
> Region 2: I/O ports at bca0 [size=32]
> Region 3: Memory at fdffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
> Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
> Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0+,D1-,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
> Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>
> 0a:03.1 Bridge: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd: Unknown device 9510
> Subsystem: Siig Inc: Unknown device 0000
> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
> Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR-
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 50
> Region 0: I/O ports at bcc0 [size=32]
> Region 1: Memory at fdffd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
> Region 2: I/O ports at bc80 [size=32]
> Region 3: Memory at fdffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
> Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
> Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0+,D1-,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
> Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>
> [root at localhost ~]# dmesg | grep -i tty
> ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> [root at localhost ~]#
>
> [root at localhost ~]# dmesg | grep -i 16550
> Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
> ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> [root at localhost ~]#
>
> [root at localhost ~]# setserial -g /dev/ttyS*
> /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
> /dev/ttyS1, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
> /dev/ttyS2, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
> /dev/ttyS3, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3
> /dev/ttyS4, UART: unknown, Port: 0x0000, IRQ: 0
> /dev/ttyS5, UART: unknown, Port: 0x0000, IRQ: 0
> /dev/ttyS6, UART: unknown, Port: 0x0000, IRQ: 0
> /dev/ttyS7, UART: unknown, Port: 0x0000, IRQ: 0
> [root at localhost ~]#
>
>
>
>
>
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