Hi,

actually I'm trying to get a serial extension card to work. The OS is
NetBSD 6.1.5, and the brand and model of the card is unknown. Dmesg
says about them:

vendor 0x9710 product 0x9912 (serial communications, interface 0x02) at pci2 dev 0 function 0 not configured
vendor 0x9710 product 0x9912 (serial communications, interface 0x02) at pci2 dev 0 function 1 not configured

How can I figure out the appropriate major and minor numbers for that connectors? As far as I found, the major is 8 for a communications
device. But how about the minor? Or did I miss something very
different...?

TIA
V*

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On Sun, 5 Jun 2016, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc, in article <nj0qi1$1l2l$1@rsli.inka.de>, Volker Englisch wrote:

the brand and model of the card is unknown. Dmesg says about them:

vendor 0x9710 product 0x9912 (serial communications, interface 0x02) at
pci2 dev 0 function 0 not configured

# List of PCI ID's
#
# Version: 2015.12.10
# Maintained by Albert Pool, Martin Mares, and other volunteers from
# the PCI ID Project at http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/.

9710 MosChip Semiconductor Technology Ltd.

# 2-port Serial 1-port Parallel Adaptor
9912 PCIe 9912 Multi-I/O Controller

Not much, but it might help.

How can I figure out

Search engine? Sorry, I can't help otherwise

[selene ~]$ uname
Linux
[selene ~]$

Is there a equivalent to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt which
is part of the kernel source?

Old guy

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Moe Trin schrieb am 05.06.2016:

On Sun, 5 Jun 2016, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc, in article <nj0qi1$1l2l$1@rsli.inka.de>, Volker Englisch wrote:

the brand and model of the card is unknown. Dmesg says about them:

vendor 0x9710 product 0x9912 (serial communications, interface 0x02) at
pci2 dev 0 function 0 not configured

# List of PCI ID's
#
# Version: 2015.12.10
# Maintained by Albert Pool, Martin Mares, and other volunteers from
# the PCI ID Project at http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/.

Nice to know, thanks...

In the meantime I found the nomenclature of the entries below /dev. So
step for step I'm going further.

Search engine? Sorry, I can't help otherwise

[selene ~]$ uname

^^^^^^

;-)

Thanks.

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On Mon, 6 Jun 2016, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc, in article <nj46q3$15jh$1@rsli.inka.de>, Volker Englisch wrote:

Moe Trin schrieb am 05.06.2016:

# List of PCI ID's

Nice to know, thanks...

Another useful one is

# List of USB ID's
# The latest version can be obtained from
# http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids

[selene ~]$ uname

^^^^^^

;-)

I'm long retired ex-NASA (though in the Aeronautics end, rather than
Space) and the naming scheme I use is based on various spacecraft.
Selene was a Japanese lunar survey (selene = Spacecraft SELenological
and ENgineering Explorer" according to a Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency web-page) and the spacecraft was renamed KAGUYA once it started
working in lunar orbit. If you look at the message-ID, you'll see this
post was supplied to the news server using host "planck"

[euclid ~]$ cut -f3 /etc/hosts | sort | column
atlantis discovery herschel localhost
chandra enterprise jade planck
columbia euclid jiram selene
compton galileo kepler spitzer
[euclid ~]$

See RFC1178 (especially the top of page 6) and RFC2100 (but note the
date of that one). Last place I worked before I retired, we had about
2700 hosts on line - and naming was delegated to each department's
manager (more likely, the manager's secretary). Each department chose
a naming scheme - sports teams, beers, currencies, cars, countries,
cities, rivers... even various types of pasta/noodles, famous ships, and
so on. Printers were named after newspapers (for black/white - color
printers were named after magazines) - which made it a lot easier for
the network admins - THEY didn't have to come up with 2700+ unique but memorable host names. This also eliminated the useless numeric based
schemes (host1.example.com... host 2700.example.com) or the hexadecimal variation (hostc0a8010a.example.com which has an address of 192.168.1.10
and so on), either scheme just begging for fat-finger errors.

Old guy

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Moe Trin schrieb am 07.06.2016:

On Mon, 6 Jun 2016, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc, in

Moe Trin schrieb am 05.06.2016:

Another useful one is

# List of USB ID's
# The latest version can be obtained from
# http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids

Thank you, I'm gonna bookmark these...

[selene ~]$ uname

^^^^^^

;-)

I'm long retired ex-NASA (though in the Aeronautics end, rather than
Space) and the naming scheme I use is based on various spacecraft.
Selene was a Japanese lunar survey (selene = Spacecraft SELenological
and ENgineering Explorer" according to a Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency web-page) and the spacecraft was renamed KAGUYA once it started working in lunar orbit.

That sounds very interesting. In the Air Force academy, we learned a
lot about military aircrafts, but that was it. I don't know much about
the NASA - besides that they are moving in space.

Do you know about the "Underworld" trilogy, starring Len Wiseman and
Kate Beckinsale? The heroine was called "Selene". That was the reason
for adding the smiley...

Volker

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On 2016-06-07, Volker Englisch <eh@rsli.inka.de> wrote:

Do you know about the "Underworld" trilogy, starring Len Wiseman and
Kate Beckinsale? The heroine was called "Selene". That was the reason
for adding the smiley...

"Selene" was the Greek moon goddess and is thus by extension another
name for the moon.

--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

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