In message <20060112125550.GA6044@colwyn.zhadum.org.uk>, Matthias Scheler write
s:
>
>	Hello,
>
>I've borrowed an IBM Thinkpad T30 and installed NetBSD 3.0 on it which
>works very well. The only problem is that the serial port (if the DB9
>plug on the back is indeed a serial port) isn't detected and that the
>it detects the printer port as "lpt2" using polled mode.
>
>lpt2 at isa0 port 0x3bc-0x3bf irq : polled
>
>Is there any way to get the serial port working at all and to get the
>parallel port working in interrupt driven mode?
>
Check your BIOS settings -- as I recall, the serial port is not enabled 
by default on some Thinkpads.  As for the parallel port -- I never used 
it on my Thinkpads, but on recent desktops things worked very poorly 
unless in interrupt mode; polled mode was much better.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb