Subject: Re: serial port on the Thinkpad 600
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Soren S. Jorvang <soren@t.dk>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/01/1999 19:21:11
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 09:22:52AM -0800, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> 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)

They can be enabled at the same time - you just have to assign all of
the serial, IR and modem ports to different addresses and interrupts
using the configuration tool.


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Soren