In message <19990201092252.A14221@beast.boogers.sf.ca.us>, Jeff Rizzo writes:
> 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)

It turns out that there are *two* different ways to enable the serial port.
I'm not sure why, or what the difference is but using the second one (I had
already used the first one) did the trick.

I love BIOSes; they're almost as much fun as XF86Config files.

Thanks, folks.