[ale] Two port serial board

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Chris Fowler)]

Today I received 10 2 port PCI serial boards in the mail. These use a 
standard 16C550 UART.

I've used boards like this before, but this one does something I've not 
seen before.

The kernel does not see any additional ttys.  I do not see ttyS2 and S3 
in dmesg output.   I looked at the CD and the "driver" is an 
executable.  I ran it and straced it.   I saw no attempts at writing 
anything.  I saw it open up PCI addresses in /sys and do a read from them.

After this completed there was still not tty message in dmesg, but I 
could open ttyS2 and ttyS3.

Anyone know what sorcery this is?

Chris