Compiling a Driver for a PCI-e Serial Card

[Walter Mack]

Googling brought up a post where someone claims that his problem 
disappeared when he didn't have space chars in the folder names any 
more. Maybe that will work for you as well.
Change your folder name from Downloads/Serial Driver to 
Downloads/SerialXDriver

Curious if that's it...



On 12/13/2014 05:23 PM, Andrew C. wrote:
> Yes, both of those are installed, and I'm running mythbuntu 14.04.1 LTS
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Walter Mack <wmack at componentsw.com>
> Date:12/13/2014 4:53 PM (GMT-07:00)
> To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: Compiling a Driver for a PCI-e Serial Card
>
> Do you have binutils and the linux-headers packages installed?
>
> What version of mythbuntu are you running?
>
>
>
> On 12/13/2014 04:31 PM, mariovenzetti at 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 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.
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
> >
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.phxlinux.org/pipermail/plug-discuss/attachments/20141213/42e1efc6/attachment.html>