In message <200011132200.XAA11796@zippo.unna.ping.de>, Jan-Hinrich Fessel write
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>Hi!
>Is anyone running NetBSD on a 600E and is using the serial port?
>Mine will not recognize it, even with pnpbios support.
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>-current finds the irda port as com port (and it seems to generate some 
>characters) but the real com port is reported "disabled".
>It works fine with NT and W2K and W98SE, so there must be a way to get it 
>going.
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>Is there possibly a way to tell pnpbios to initialize and thus enable a device
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>on the pnpbios bus?

What I had to do (on BSD/OS) was use the 'ps2' command under DOS and 
disable the irda port.  I also had to tell it

-ioport reserve 0x2f8 4
-irq reserve 3

but I'm not sure of the NetBSD equivalents to those spells (if any, and 
indeed if any are needed).

		--Steve Bellovin