[plug] stallion Easyio installation

[average at b-online.com.au]

i have been charged to get a dialin server going this i have done but i have
gone and got a 8port stallion easyio pci card to increase the number of modems.
i am using mgetty and it works so that the two modems on ttyS0/1 work no problems.



by all accounts i should just have to insmod the stallion modules and put the
ports (ttyE*) into inittab and restart it after doing a mkdevnod.

(one thing is that lock files are created straight away under /var/lock for each of the ttyE* devs. delete these and they are created again straight away.)
this i have done but i cannot communicate to the modems on the stallion card
i have recompilled the kernal to build the stallion drivers into the kernel

when i boot i get 

Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Stallion Multiport Serial Driver: version 5.5.1
STALLION: EasyIO-PCI found, board=0 io=dc00 irq=10 nrpanels=1 nrports=8
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured

barryh at chance barryh]$ uname -a
Linux chance.b-online.com.au 2.2.5-15 #3 Wed Nov 1 14:53:20 WST 2000 i686 unknown

so the card has been configured i get entries indicating that everything is working in /proc under pci tty etc saying the card is in and configured.
using the dos diagnostics shows the cared is installed and configured as well.
i get error messages from the ttyE* in /var/log/messages but i get the same message with the ttyS* devices as well but this indicates that the devices are setup (?)

Nov  1 17:24:21 chance mgetty[1386]: failed in mg_init_data, dev=ttyE3, pid=1386
Nov  1 17:24:21 chance mgetty[1387]: init chat failed, exiting...: Interrupted system call
Nov  1 17:24:21 chance mgetty[1387]: failed in mg_init_data, dev=ttyE2, pid=1387
Nov  1 17:24:21 chance mgetty[1388]: init chat failed, exiting...: Interrupted system call
Nov  1 17:24:21 chance mgetty[1388]: failed in mg_init_data, dev=ttyE6, pid=1388

a work associate at another company has the same problem he originally set his under solaris same problem so has rebuilt the machine as a linux box. but still no communication.

any ideas on what is wrong as i have been given the ultimateum of get it working soon under linux or move it to NT.

barry