Moxa 8-port serial multiplexor, how-to

[Tim Judd]

On 7/29/09, Doug Poland <doug at polands.org> wrote:
> On Wed, July 29, 2009 12:04, WATANABE Kazuhiro wrote:
>>
>> At Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:32:52 -0500,
>> Doug Poland wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to get a Moxa Technologies C168H/PCI 8-port mux card
>>> working in 7.2-RELEASE(i386).
>>>
>>> I've recompiled a GENERIC kernel with
>>>
>>>   options COM_MULTIPORT
>>>
>>> and loaded the puc(4) module.  I don't have any new ttyd? or cuad?
>>> devices in /dev.
>>>
>>> After reading the handbook(26.2) and man puc(4), sio(4).  man sio(4)
>>> talks about adding /boot/device.hints but not for my particular
>>> hardware.  I'm at a loss on how to continue.
>>>
>>> Suggestions, pointers, URLs welcome.
>>>
>>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> If you want to load the puc(4) driver as a loadable module, you should
>> load the sio(4) or uart(4) driver module as well.  But these drivers
>> are included in the GENERIC kernel.  So you should to remove sio(4) or
>> uart(4) from the kernel and load it as a loadable module.
>>
>> The other solution is to builtin the puc(4) driver to the
>> kernel. i.e.:
>>
>> 	sio(4)		puc(4)		status
>> 	or uart(4)
>> 	----------------------------------------
>> 	module		module		work
>> 	builtin		builtin		work
>> 	builtin		module		not work <- current choice?
>> 	module		builtin		not work
>> 	----------------------------------------
>> 	(module = loadable module, builtin = kernel builtin)
>>
>> Other modifications will not be needed for PCI multiport cards.
>>
> I removed devices sio and uart from my kernel, loaded them as modules
> in /boot/loader.conf, and now I have 8 additional cuad? devices!
>
> Many thanks for your help.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Doug


Trying to help a buddy who also has a Moxa multiport serial card.  He
followed this thread and isn't seeing the same success

Doug,
can I get the following in a pastebin or in this thread?

pciconf -lvvv



thanks!