freebsd stable - Mar 2008 - Generic 2-port PCI Express Serial Card - how to get recognized?

Hi folks;

I have a "generic" PCI Express "dumb" (16550 allegedly)
serial card that
goes in a PCI Express slot.

FreeBSD doesn't see it, which I assume has to do with the card's
"vendor ID"
not being in the table that FreeBSD reocognizes.

How do I get the ID from the probe (and/or probe the bus when the machine is
running?) - I assume I could add the vendor ID to the sio_pci.c module 
and it MIGHT work, yes?

It doesn't have a specific brand and documentation is basically
"zilch"; I
figured it might work right out of the box, but so far, no joy.

Thanks in advance!

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On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Karl Denninger wrote:
> Hi folks;
>
> I have a "generic" PCI Express "dumb" (16550 allegedly)
serial card
> that goes in a PCI Express slot.
>
> FreeBSD doesn't see it, which I assume has to do with the card's
> "vendor ID" not being in the table that FreeBSD reocognizes.
>
> How do I get the ID from the probe (and/or probe the bus when the
> machine is running?) - I assume I could add the vendor ID to the
> sio_pci.c module and it MIGHT work, yes?
>
> It doesn't have a specific brand and documentation is basically
> "zilch"; I figured it might work right out of the box, but so
far, no
> joy.
Have you tried loading puc? Unfortunately I think you will need to 
recompile your kernel because it is not in GENERIC and not available as 
a module.

Look at /usr/src/sys/dev/puc/pucdata.c for a list of vendor/device IDs 
(and add yours if it isn't there).

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To find the vendor/device IDs of your card use "pciconf -lv", and look
for entries similar to the following:

none0@pci0:0:20:0:      class=0x0c0500 card=0x309b103c chip=0x43721002
rev=0x11 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
    device     = 'IXP SB400 SMBus'
    class      = serial bus
    subclass   = SMBus

Scot

On 3/28/08, Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>
wrote:
> Hi folks;
>
>  I have a "generic" PCI Express "dumb" (16550
allegedly) serial card that
>  goes in a PCI Express slot.
>
>  FreeBSD doesn't see it, which I assume has to do with the card's
"vendor ID"
>  not being in the table that FreeBSD reocognizes.
>
>  How do I get the ID from the probe (and/or probe the bus when the machine
is
>  running?) - I assume I could add the vendor ID to the sio_pci.c module
>  and it MIGHT work, yes?
>
>  It doesn't have a specific brand and documentation is basically
"zilch"; I
>  figured it might work right out of the box, but so far, no joy.
>
>  Thanks in advance!
>
>  --
>  --
>  Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) Internet Consultant & Kids Rights
Activist
>  http://www.denninger.net        My home on the net - links to everything I
do!
>  http://scubaforum.org           Your UNCENSORED place to talk about
DIVING!
>  http://genesis3.blogspot.com    Musings Of A Sentient Mind
>
>
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