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| Date | 2011-04-20 20:53 +0100 |
|---|---|
| From | Chris <no.one@nowhere.invalid> |
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.hardware |
| Subject | ORINET XWT-PE2S1P PCIE serial/parallel card won't work |
| Message-ID | <51C70BC933%no.one@nowhere.invalid> (permalink) |
| Organization | Organisation? Er, no... |
Well, that's what I wrote down while examining the card, but googling for information (none of it useful, all of it in Russian) suggests that what I should've written was ORIENT ... Anyway, I have a year-old Athlon II system (an AM3 socket motherboard) with a single serial port but no parallel port. Having recently resurrected an ancient printer (and bought several cartridges of toner for next to nothing) I bought the expansion card, on which is written XWT-PE2S1P (that's the only identification that I can find), so that I could use the printer, but with one eye to the future (maybe my next motherboard will have no PCI, no serial *and* no parallel). The only problem is that the card won't work. "lspci" tells me 02:00.0 Serial controller: NetMos Technology Device 9912 02:00.1 Serial controller: NetMos Technology Device 9912 02:00.2 Parallel controller: NetMos Technology Device 9912 so the card is obviously seen, but my attempts to configure either the printer, or an external dial-up modem on one of the serial ports, have all failed. Mandriva Configuration Centre (I think that's what it's called) refuses to accept that the card provides either a parallel or a serial port; the modem works fine on the inbuilt serial port. Such documentation as I can find on the mini-CD which accompanies the card talks about recompiling the kernel (way beyond my abilities), but seems to refer to nothing later than version 2.6.20, whereas the 64-bit Mandriva on my hard disc seems to be 2.6.33, while the recent 32-bit "live" PCLOS DVD may be even more recent, and I'd hoped, indeed expected, that support would by now be built in. Short of sending it back to Hong Kong in the hope of obtaining a refund, what do the experts suggest? Chris
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ORINET XWT-PE2S1P PCIE serial/parallel card won't work Chris <no.one@nowhere.invalid> - 2011-04-20 20:53 +0100
Re: ORINET XWT-PE2S1P PCIE serial/parallel card won't work Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2011-04-20 13:35 -0700
Re: ORINET XWT-PE2S1P PCIE serial/parallel card won't work Chris <no.one@nowhere.invalid> - 2011-04-25 08:43 +0100
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