Alfred von Campe wrote: > 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. this also explains why I could never get more than a couple ports working on a 8 port card I picked up to use as a unix server serial console controller. and, yeah, if I can request CentOS Plus kernel consider supporting more serial ports, chalk me in!