Re: Compiling a Driver for a PCI-e Serial Card

> On 12/13/2014 04:31 PM, mariovenzetti@cox.net wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I've been working on a MythTV on Mythbuntu project for a little 
> while now and I've come to the step of setting up a serial ir blaster. 
> My motherboard did not come with a serial port so I purchased an 
> Iocrest  PCI-Express Multi I/O Controller serial card. I see the card 
> when typing in "lspci" in a CLI. However, I've determined the card 
> needs a driver, because when I put the command to find my ir blaster, 
> "dmesg | grep tty" it oly comes up with "[    0.000000] console [tty0] 
> enabled". When i plug the ir blaster into an older lubuntu computer I 
> have I get "[ 0.000000] console [tty0] enabled
> > [    1.029792] 00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4, base_baud = 
> 115200) is a 16550A". So it seems to find the blaster on the older 
> computer, probably because the serial port is built into the 
> motherboard. So, I found and downloaded the linux driver for the card 
> that needs to be compiled. I've extracted the zip file the driver is 
> in, navigate to the directory where the makefile is and then enter the 
> command "make". I then get these errors: 
> "hometheater@Hometheater:~/Downloads/Serial 
> Driver/MCS99XX/Linux/MCS9900_Cascade/MCS99XX-cascade_V_1.0.0.0$ make
> > rm -f *.mod.c *.o *.ko .*.cmd *.symvers
> > make -C /usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-43-generic 
> SUBDIRS=/home/hometheater/Downloads/Serial 
> Driver/MCS99XX/Linux/MCS9900_Cascade/MCS99XX-cascade_V_1.0.0.0 modules
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-43-generic'
> > /usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-43-generic/arch/x86/Makefile:113: 
> CONFIG_X86_X32 enabled but no binutils support
> > make[1]: *** No rule to make target 
> `Driver/MCS99XX/Linux/MCS9900_Cascade/MCS99XX-cascade_V_1.0.0.0'. Stop.
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-43-generic'
> > make: *** [default] Error 2"
> > Here is the makefile as well:
> > "KDIR:=/usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-43-generic