[CentOS] How do I configure additional serial ports?

[Alfred von Campe]

On Mar 9, 2007, at 11:26, James Pearson wrote:

> Never used these cards, but the standard CentOS4 kernel has the  
> following config settings:
>
> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS=4
> # CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_MANY_PORTS is not set
>
> This might be your problem ...

Hmm, this could definitely be it.  I'll look into it further and  
report back.  I'd rather not recompile the kernel, but if that is a  
way to get it to work, I'll certainly do it.  Maybe the CentOS Plus  
kernel already has support for this enabled.  I will check on that as  
well later today.

Alfred