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  • Serial extension card

    From Volker Englisch@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 5 11:14:41 2016
    Hi,

    actually I'm trying to get a serial extension card to work. The OS is
    NetBSD 6.1.5, and the brand and model of the card is unknown. Dmesg
    says about them:

    vendor 0x9710 product 0x9912 (serial communications, interface 0x02) at pci2 dev 0 function 0 not configured
    vendor 0x9710 product 0x9912 (serial communications, interface 0x02) at pci2 dev 0 function 1 not configured

    How can I figure out the appropriate major and minor numbers for that connectors? As far as I found, the major is 8 for a communications
    device. But how about the minor? Or did I miss something very
    different...?

    TIA
    V*

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  • From Moe Trin@21:1/5 to Volker Englisch on Sun Jun 5 16:35:57 2016
    On Sun, 5 Jun 2016, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc, in article <nj0qi1$1l2l$[email protected]>, Volker Englisch wrote:

    the brand and model of the card is unknown. Dmesg says about them:

    vendor 0x9710 product 0x9912 (serial communications, interface 0x02) at
    pci2 dev 0 function 0 not configured

    # List of PCI ID's
    #
    # Version: 2015.12.10
    # Maintained by Albert Pool, Martin Mares, and other volunteers from
    # the PCI ID Project at http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/.

    9710 MosChip Semiconductor Technology Ltd.

    # 2-port Serial 1-port Parallel Adaptor
    9912 PCIe 9912 Multi-I/O Controller

    Not much, but it might help.

    How can I figure out

    Search engine? Sorry, I can't help otherwise

    [selene ~]$ uname
    Linux
    [selene ~]$

    Is there a equivalent to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt which
    is part of the kernel source?

    Old guy

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  • From Volker Englisch@21:1/5 to Moe Trin on Mon Jun 6 18:02:11 2016
    Moe Trin schrieb am 05.06.2016:
    On Sun, 5 Jun 2016, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc, in article <nj0qi1$1l2l$[email protected]>, Volker Englisch wrote:

    the brand and model of the card is unknown. Dmesg says about them:

    vendor 0x9710 product 0x9912 (serial communications, interface 0x02) at
    pci2 dev 0 function 0 not configured

    # List of PCI ID's
    #
    # Version: 2015.12.10
    # Maintained by Albert Pool, Martin Mares, and other volunteers from
    # the PCI ID Project at http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/.

    Nice to know, thanks...

    In the meantime I found the nomenclature of the entries below /dev. So
    step for step I'm going further.

    Search engine? Sorry, I can't help otherwise

    [selene ~]$ uname
    ^^^^^^

    ;-)

    Thanks.

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  • From Moe Trin@21:1/5 to Volker Englisch on Tue Jun 7 06:51:36 2016
    On Mon, 6 Jun 2016, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc, in article <nj46q3$15jh$[email protected]>, Volker Englisch wrote:

    Moe Trin schrieb am 05.06.2016:

    # List of PCI ID's

    Nice to know, thanks...

    Another useful one is

    # List of USB ID's
    # The latest version can be obtained from
    # http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids

    [selene ~]$ uname
    ^^^^^^

    ;-)

    I'm long retired ex-NASA (though in the Aeronautics end, rather than
    Space) and the naming scheme I use is based on various spacecraft.
    Selene was a Japanese lunar survey (selene = Spacecraft SELenological
    and ENgineering Explorer" according to a Japan Aerospace Exploration
    Agency web-page) and the spacecraft was renamed KAGUYA once it started
    working in lunar orbit. If you look at the message-ID, you'll see this
    post was supplied to the news server using host "planck"

    [euclid ~]$ cut -f3 /etc/hosts | sort | column
    atlantis discovery herschel localhost
    chandra enterprise jade planck
    columbia euclid jiram selene
    compton galileo kepler spitzer
    [euclid ~]$

    See RFC1178 (especially the top of page 6) and RFC2100 (but note the
    date of that one). Last place I worked before I retired, we had about
    2700 hosts on line - and naming was delegated to each department's
    manager (more likely, the manager's secretary). Each department chose
    a naming scheme - sports teams, beers, currencies, cars, countries,
    cities, rivers... even various types of pasta/noodles, famous ships, and
    so on. Printers were named after newspapers (for black/white - color
    printers were named after magazines) - which made it a lot easier for
    the network admins - THEY didn't have to come up with 2700+ unique but memorable host names. This also eliminated the useless numeric based
    schemes (host1.example.com... host 2700.example.com) or the hexadecimal variation (hostc0a8010a.example.com which has an address of 192.168.1.10
    and so on), either scheme just begging for fat-finger errors.

    Old guy

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  • From Volker Englisch@21:1/5 to Moe Trin on Tue Jun 7 18:21:07 2016
    Moe Trin schrieb am 07.06.2016:
    On Mon, 6 Jun 2016, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc, in

    Moe Trin schrieb am 05.06.2016:

    Another useful one is

    # List of USB ID's
    # The latest version can be obtained from
    # http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids

    Thank you, I'm gonna bookmark these...

    [selene ~]$ uname
    ^^^^^^

    ;-)

    I'm long retired ex-NASA (though in the Aeronautics end, rather than
    Space) and the naming scheme I use is based on various spacecraft.
    Selene was a Japanese lunar survey (selene = Spacecraft SELenological
    and ENgineering Explorer" according to a Japan Aerospace Exploration
    Agency web-page) and the spacecraft was renamed KAGUYA once it started working in lunar orbit.

    That sounds very interesting. In the Air Force academy, we learned a
    lot about military aircrafts, but that was it. I don't know much about
    the NASA - besides that they are moving in space.

    Do you know about the "Underworld" trilogy, starring Len Wiseman and
    Kate Beckinsale? The heroine was called "Selene". That was the reason
    for adding the smiley...

    Volker

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  • From Christian Weisgerber@21:1/5 to Volker Englisch on Tue Jun 7 18:56:05 2016
    On 2016-06-07, Volker Englisch <[email protected]> wrote:

    Do you know about the "Underworld" trilogy, starring Len Wiseman and
    Kate Beckinsale? The heroine was called "Selene". That was the reason
    for adding the smiley...

    "Selene" was the Greek moon goddess and is thus by extension another
    name for the moon.

    --
    Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]

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