Re: [hylafax-users] Mainpine IQ Express and CentOS 5.1 installation problems.

[David Mimms <david.mimms@xxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 28, 2008, at 3:49 PM, Jason Lewis wrote:

> I am trying to setup a Mainpine IQ Express (8 port) with CentOS 5.1  
> for use with Hylafax. This is my first experience with a Mainpine  
> card or any multi-port serial card. I've follow the directions  
> closely on Mainpines website. The following is what I have done:
>
> > # /sbin/lspci -d 1522:*
> > 07:00.0 Communication controller: MainPine Ltd PCI <-> IOBus Bridge  
> > (rev 81)
>
> > # lspci -nvs 07:00.0
> > 07:00.0 0780: 1522:0100 (rev 81)
> >       Subsystem: 1522:3d00
> >      Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
> >       I/O ports at cc80 [size=128]
> >       Memory at fe200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
>
> > # setserial /dev/ttyS4 port 0xCC80 irq 11 autoconfig ^fourport
> > /dev/ttyS4: No such file or directory
>
> > # mknod -m 666 /dev/ttyS4 c 4 68
> > # setserial /dev/ttyS4 port 0xCC80 irq 11 autoconfig ^fourport
> /dev/ttyS4: No such device or address
>
> I am at a stuck point and unsure what to do. I've tried just about  
> everything I know of to set the port for each line to a serial  
> interface so that I can get at least some software communicating  
> with the modem. Any help in direction with this problem would be  
> greatly appreciated, I am just at a loss at this point. I'm not  
> quite sure why ttyS4 and greater for the serial ports on the modem  
> are not auto created. Even after I do create them and verify they  
> are there, I can't do anything with them. I'm running CentOS 5.1  
> with kernel 2.6.18. Thanks!


>

Jason,

You'll have to patch the Linux kernel for this card to work.  Here is  
an overview of what you should do:

$ yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
$ yum -y install unifdef

Install the src rpm for your current kernel.

$ rpm -ivh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5.src.rpm

$ cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES

$ wget http://people.ifax.com/~aidan/mainpine/linux-2.6.9-55.EL-ifax1.patch

$ cd ../SPECS/

$ vim kernel-2.6.spec

Redefine "dist"

%define dist .el5ifax2

Around line 1607 add:
# mainpine patch - iFAX
Patch99995: linux-2.6.9-55.EL-ifax1.patch

Around line 1956 add:
# mainpine patch - iFAX
%patch99995 -p1

Save and exit.  Build the new kernel.

$ rpmbuild -ba --target i686 kernel-2.6.spec

$ ls -l ../RPMS/i686

Dave


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