Subject: Re: serial port on the Thinkpad 600
To: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: Jeff Rizzo <riz@boogers.sf.ca.us>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/01/1999 09:22:52
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 10:38:38AM -0500, Steve Bellovin wrote:
> > 
> 
> I have a 600E.  The IR port is probably useless to me; it's not even
> at a standard COM port address.  But the serial port is; I just can't
> make NetBSD see it.  I suspect that I have to add some strange sort of
> enable operation first.

Yes, you do have to enable it;  I believe that the IR and serial 0 can't
both be enabled at the same time.  I did it under Windows, using the
"Thinkpad configuration" tool.  I think you might be able to do it under
the weird BIOS config.  (with the flapping-wing bird pointer)

+j

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Jeff Rizzo                                         http://boogers.sf.ca.us/~riz