Stallion EasyIO 8port serial PCI card

I am having problems getting our 8-port EasyIO PCI card working on Linux Fedora Core 3. I have read all the README and Documentation regarding getting EasyIO configured.

So far, using kernel 2.6.11-1.27FC3smp, after I install the PCI card, kudzu detected the card and lspci -vvv shows it as well:

02:0a.0 Communication controller: Stallion Technologies, Inc. EasyIO (rev 01) Subsystem: Stallion Technologies, Inc. EasyIO Control: I-O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 Region 1: I-O ports at dc00 size=128 Region 2: I-O ports at d480 size=128

My problem is getting the drivers to work:

1) There does not seem to be a way to compile stallion.c as a module, despite what all the documentation says that you can either compile it as a module or built-in to the kernel. There is only the asterisk and empty selection, no option for M, next to the "Stallion multiport serial support" option in make menuconfig.

2) So, proceeding to option 2 ... that is, built-in to the kernel. Documentation-stallion.txt says:

----------------------------------- If using EasyIO or EasyConnection 8-32 ISA or MCA boards, In drivers-char-stallion.c: - find the definition of the stlbrdconf array (of structures) near the top of the file - modify this to match the boards you are going to install (the comments before this structure should help) - save and exit -----------------------------------

I have an EasyIO PCI card. So I changed stlbrdconf in drivers-char-stallion.c from this:

static stlconft stlbrdconf = {* { BRDEASYIO, 0x2a0, 0, 0, 10, 0 }, *};

... to this:

static stlconft stlbrdconf = { { BRDEASYIO, 0xdc00, 0xd480, 0, 10, 0 }, };

The IO ports and IRQ from lscpi says:

02:0a.0 Communication controller: Stallion Technologies, Inc. EasyIO (rev 01) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 Region 1: I-O ports at dc00 size=128 Region 2: I-O ports at d480 size=128

.. so that's what I changed.

3) Recompiled kernel and modules

4) Booted up with new kernel

My problem is that, I still dont see anything in either dmesg orvar-log-messages saying that it detected the Stallion PCI card. OK, lspci says it is there ( with new kernel and with original kernel ) ... but I was presuming that I would see something in dmesg saying it was initialised or something.

Documentation-stallion.txt says:

----------------------------------- When the new kernel is booted, or the loadable module loaded then the driver will emit some kernel trace messages about whether the configured boards were detected or not. Depending on how your system logger is set up these may come out on the console, or just be logged tovar-adm-messages orvar-log-syslog. You should check the messages to confirm that all is well. -----------------------------------

Any ideas ?