Compiling a Driver for a PCI-e Serial Card

mariovenzetti at cox.net mariovenzetti at cox.net
Sat Dec 13 16:31:26 MST 2014


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 at 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 

obj-m +=99xx.o

default:
	$(RM) *.mod.c *.o *.ko .*.cmd *.symvers
	$(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules

install:
	cp 99xx.ko  /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/kernel/drivers/serial/
	depmod -A
	chmod +x mcs99xx
	cp mcs99xx /etc/init.d/
	ln -s /etc/init.d/mcs99xx /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/Smcs99xx || true  	
	ln -s /etc/init.d/mcs99xx /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/Smcs99xx || true
	modprobe 99xx nr_funs=4

uninstall:
	modprobe -r 99xx
	rm /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/kernel/drivers/serial/99xx.*
	depmod -A
	rm -f /etc/init.d/mcs99xx
	rm -f /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/Smcs99xx
	rm -f /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/Smcs99xx

clean:
	$(RM) *.mod.c *.o *.ko .*.cmd *.symvers
	rm -rf .tmp_version*"
Can anyone help me successfully compile this driver?
Thanks!
~Andrew C.


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