Ack! Only 4 uarts with FC6!

Brian Mury brianmury at alumni.uvic.ca
Sat Oct 28 06:26:06 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 23:07 -0700, Brian Mury wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 20:39 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: 
> > On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:04:05PM -0700, Brian Mury wrote:
> >  > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 17:44 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> >  > > Lo these many years, the kernel parameter 8250.nr_uarts=9 has
> >  > 
> >  > I have the same problem here. My motherboard has 2 RS232 ports, and I
> >  
> > Even if you boot with the parameter Tom mentioned ?
> 
> that worked. I can access all 6 serial ports.

One more observation: with that kernel paramter, I no longer get the
graphical boot. Yes, I am still using the rhgb parameter... I don't
really care, I just thought it was a little odd.





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