Dual port serial card support (ITE8874)

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Date: 30 Jan 2004 17:07:05 -0800

Hi.

I got a Wiseland 2 port serial PCI card (www.microwise.com) card from my
local retailer. It is a ITE8874F chipset.

Website had Linux patches but no instructions. The patches were to
drivers/char/serial.c and drivers/parport/parport_pc.c and appeared to
be against 2.4.4

My system (Redhat 7.3, 2.4.20-20 kernel) already seems to have the
changes (or a version of them) for parport_pc.c:
        case 0x8:
                DPRINTK (KERN_DEBUG "parport_pc: ITE8874 found (2S)\n");

But no sign of their patch in 2.4.20's serial.c.

I've tried various versions of parport_pc including their patch.
Also tried applying their patch to serial.c

All without success. Can see the card in lspci but cannot get the card to be
detected. Sent e-mail to Ted.Wen@ite.com.tw (saw some posts from him on lkml
about the driver) but no reply.

Can anyone offer any tips to get this card to work with 2.4.20 kernel.
-or-
Can anyone suggest an alternative 2 port PCI card (< $50) which will work
out of the box without having to patch the kernel. Looking for something that
won't require multiple hours of fiddling.

Would appreciate a Cc: if possible to: tony -at- tonyjones -dot- com

Thanks!

Tony

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