PCI-e SEALEVEL dual serial card not recognized on Ubuntu 14.04

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Published on 2014-05-27T20:48:16Z Indexed on 2014/05/28 22:05 UTC
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New to Ubuntu, running 14.04. I have trouble with the serial port setup, I have a plug-in PCI-e SEALEVEL dual serial card that is not recognized.

user1@WSIWORKSTATION2:~$ dmesg | grep tty
[    0.000000] console [tty0] enabled
[    1.577197] 00:06: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4, base_baud = 115200) is a 16550A
[    1.943326] tty ttyprintk: hash matches
[   17.240880] ttyS4: LSR safety check engaged!
[   17.241589] ttyS4: LSR safety check engaged!
[   17.242354] ttyS5: LSR safety check engaged!
[   17.243058] ttyS5: LSR safety check engaged!
[   17.243918] ttyS6: LSR safety check engaged!
[   17.244485] ttyS6: LSR safety check engaged!
[   17.245195] ttyS7: LSR safety check engaged!
[   17.245830] ttyS7: LSR safety check engaged!
[   17.246554] ttyS8: LSR safety check engaged!
[   17.247191] ttyS8: LSR safety check engaged!

user1@WSIWORKSTATION2:~/Desktop/seacom$ lspci -d 135e: -vvv 02:04.0 Bridge: Sealevel Systems Inc Device e205 (rev aa) Subsystem: Sealevel Systems Inc Device e205 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR- Capabilities:

However, the manufacturer's drivers won't install:

1.
user1@WSIWORKSTATION2:~/Desktop/seacom$ make install
----------------------------------------------------------------
Installing seacom suite.
----------------------------------------------------------------

 --Installing utilities--
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible ../../lib/libftd2xx.a when searching for -lftd2xx
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lftd2xx
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [setusb] Error 1
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 1


2. 
user1@WSIWORKSTATION2:~/Desktop/seaio$ make install
----------------------------------------------------------------
Installing SD suite.
----------------------------------------------------------------

 *Compiling SeaIO Library source file: digitalIoDevice.cpp
gcc: error trying to exec 'cc1plus': execvp: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [digitalIoDevice.o] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 1

I was not able to find a solution, so if anyone can help it will be much appreciated.

PS Have some troubles with formatting my post, apologies...

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