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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:53:38 +0100
From: Chris <no.one@nowhere.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: ORINET XWT-PE2S1P PCIE serial/parallel card won't work
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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