On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 16:51:14 -0800 (PST) David Scriven <davidwriter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm trying to enable a four-port serial card The magic (for non Xen kernels, anyway) is to add a kernel boot parameter such as: 8250.nr_uarts=9 (that gets the 1 port on my motherboard + an 8 port card to work). For Xen the situation is much more complex since the hypervisor steals serial ports and the serial driver isn't linked in, but is a loadable module. I never really figured Xen out...