Re: not detected pci card (i/o card , serial & parallal)

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:24:56AM +0530, pasupathy murugan wrote:
> i am using debian etch with  hardware for Intel Motherboard's 945,
> so that's not have parallel and serial port,
> insert a pci card (IO card 2 serial port. 1 parallel port ), but not
> configure,
> how it is configure


The MB has no paralell or serial port, and no hardware on the MB waiting
for the connector to be plugged-in?  (My MB has a serial port and the
hardware for a paralell port but the Asus gizmo that plugs in for a
paralell connector costs more than a USB-parallel adapter).

With the PCI IO card out, copy the dmesg to a file
$ dmesg > dmesg-noio.txt

Then, shutdown and install the card.  Boot up and run

$ dmesg > dmesg-io.txt

Then

$ diff dmesg-io.txt dmesg-noio.txt | less

Now see the difference.

If there is no difference then there is a problem somewhere.  If there
is, then at least the kernel modules are seeing the hardware.  dmesg
should tell you what io and irq it finds each port.  

You may need to install modconf to setup (in menu form) the lp,
parport_lp, and parport modules.  I suppose you may need setserial to
setup the serial port as you like.

Let us know what you find with dmesg.

Doug.