Generic 2-port PCI Express Serial Card - how to get recognized?

[Scot Hetzel]

On 3/28/08, Karl Denninger <karl at denninger.net> wrote:
> Hi folks;
>
>  I have a "generic" PCI Express "dumb" (16550 allegedly) serial card that
>  goes in a PCI Express slot.
>
>  FreeBSD doesn't see it, which I assume has to do with the card's "vendor ID"
>  not being in the table that FreeBSD reocognizes.
>
>  How do I get the ID from the probe (and/or probe the bus when the machine is
>  running?) - I assume I could add the vendor ID to the sio_pci.c module
>  and it MIGHT work, yes?
>
>  It doesn't have a specific brand and documentation is basically "zilch"; I
>  figured it might work right out of the box, but so far, no joy.
>
>  Thanks in advance!
>
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