Re: PCI modem not recognized by the serial driver

[dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org>]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 05:33:17PM -0400, Enoch W. wrote:
> 
> Answering my own question for you, the future google seeker.
> This PC has 4 serial ports and for the PCI modem it needed to create a
> 5th ttyS4. 4 serial ports however is the kernel default max and at boot
> time I needed to add to /boot/grub/menu.lst a 8250.nr_uarts=5 option.

Thanks for following up

> I am coming from a FreeBSD background where kernel tweaks like this one
> are very well documented. Where's the place to seek similar help in
> Debian?

 /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-<ver>/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.gz

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dann frazier