problems with the serial console

[Andreas S. <an...@sc...>]

i tried to get the kernel messages and the oops i get to the
serial console, and i failed.

two minicoms can talk to each other over my nullmodem cable, but
no messages come through. 

i had fixed a obvious compilation bug (too man arguments to
handle_sysrq in serial.c), but there seems to be more wrong.

i use the patches by  Aivils Stoss and work with a backport on
2.4.19. My ultimat aim is to get a mult-console box for two (or
more) people.