I’m not sure, but I’ve never seen this work.
mm
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Gary G. Little wrote:
> The ports do have to become COM1/COM2 and may require disabling onboard com
> support in the BIOS, which would indicate those onboard ports are some how
> broken. But ? it has been a while so maybe it was an ISA slot I was using.
>
>
>
> Gary G. Little
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>
> From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com [mailto:
> xxxxx@lists.osr.com] *On Behalf Of *Martin O’Brien
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 4:34 PM
> To: Kernel Debugging Interest List
> Subject: Re: [windbg] [WinDbg] Debugging over PCIe to Serial card
>
>
>
> If you mean, for example, adding a PCI based serial port card, then, no
> I’ve never seen that work. Perhaps you’ve used ones that can assume the
> standard com1/com2 addresses?
>
>
> mm
>
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Gary G. Little
> wrote:
>
> You must mean a PMCIA card that won?t work.
>
>
>
> I know I have shoved serial cards into peripheral slots in the mother board
> on either host or target and banged away with WinDbg.
>
>
>
> I cannot believe the number of manufactures? that continually handicap
> themselves by not providing minimal tools for debugging. Maybe their
> arrogance tells them that all their hardware and software is always perfect,
> and hence on one needs to debug anything on their machines.
>
>
>
> Gary G. Little
>
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> C (952) 454-4629
>
> xxxxx@comcast.net
>
>
>
> From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com [mailto:
> xxxxx@lists.osr.com] *On Behalf Of *Martin O’Brien
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 4:12 PM
> To: Kernel Debugging Interest List
> Subject: Re: [windbg] [WinDbg] Debugging over PCIe to Serial card
>
>
>
> >The best you can do to add it is either a true serial card in a peripheral
> slot.
>
> That won’t work. KD won’t recognize a serial port add in card.
>
> The reason that his card won’t work is because it is an add in serial
> port. He needs to get a supported 1394 add in card, unless he wants to try
> usb kd.
>
>
> mm
>
> Gary G. Little
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> xxxxx@comcast.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> xxxxx@gmail.com
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 3:56 PM
> To: Kernel Debugging Interest List
> Subject: [windbg] Debugging over PCIe to Serial card
>
> Hi guys,
> I’m trying to kernel debug an XP system on a netbook which comes with no
> serial port and no firewire.
> I’ve bought a mini PCIe to Serial card that feeds off 1x PCIe. The card is
> based on Oxford 16950 chipset.
> I’ve installed it inside the netbook (one spare mini-PCIe) and Windows sees
> it. I needed to install drivers for a device called multi-port serial
> adapter and then drivers for the 2 serial ports offered by the card.
> I’ve successfully tested the serial connection with a null modem cable with
> hyperterminal.
>
> However I’ve had no success establishing a kernel debug link at boot time.
> Windbg simply does not connect to the target.
>
> So I’m turning to the community, hoping others have tried to do the same
> thing. Any words of advice?
>
> Thanks!
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> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Gary G. Little
> wrote:
>
> The target system for WinDbg must have native support for either serial
> (COM1/COM2) or 1394. The best you can do to add it is either a true serial
> card in a peripheral slot. The target requires the serial and 1394 ports to
> be available at boot time. I believe a PCMCIA 1394 may work, but there all
> I
> have tried has been on the host.
>
> Also, usually the COM1/COM2 ports are based 16550, not 16950. There might
> be
> a different pin out between the two, though I would think it would work
> given the target saw a COM port at the proper time during the boot. Is
> there
> a BIOD option that can be set with the PCIe in play?
>
> Gary G. Little
> H (952) 223-1349
> C (952) 454-4629
> xxxxx@comcast.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
> [mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of
> xxxxx@gmail.com
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 3:56 PM
> To: Kernel Debugging Interest List
> Subject: [windbg] Debugging over PCIe to Serial card
>
> Hi guys,
> I’m trying to kernel debug an XP system on a netbook which comes with no
> serial port and no firewire.
> I’ve bought a mini PCIe to Serial card that feeds off 1x PCIe. The card is
> based on Oxford 16950 chipset.
> I’ve installed it inside the netbook (one spare mini-PCIe) and Windows sees
> it. I needed to install drivers for a device called multi-port serial
> adapter and then drivers for the 2 serial ports offered by the card.
> I’ve successfully tested the serial connection with a null modem cable with
> hyperterminal.
>
> However I’ve had no success establishing a kernel debug link at boot time.
> Windbg simply does not connect to the target.
>
> So I’m turning to the community, hoping others have tried to do the same
> thing. Any words of advice?
>
> Thanks!
>
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