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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