[plug] 4 Port serial cards, mgetty etc etc

Michael Hunt michael.j.hunt at usa.net
Fri Sep 8 04:42:27 WST 2000


> The other thing to check, which caught me with an ISA 4 port, and a PCMCIA
> 4 port, is the kernel must be set up to use multiple ports.. or else even
> if the devices exist, it will not initialise any device past ttyS3.
> I had to re-compile my kernel to get the 4th port to work..
> ie 1 onboard port, and 4 pcmcia ports.
> Same when I put the ISA 4 port card in.. it would only set up a maximum of
> 4 ports.. meaning with the 2 onboard, and the 4 port card, I had
> 2 ports I
> could not use until I rebuilt the kernel.

So what use did you put a 4 port pcmcia serial card to. I did not now that
even such a thing existed !!!

Michael Hunt




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