On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Maxim Kryachko wrote:
> -the serial ports on thinkpads can be configured in bios in three different
> -ways: Enabled, Disabled and OS Controlled. In my experience, switching the
> -serial port from OS Controlled (the default) to Enabled solved the
> -problems - you might want to try that.
>
> I searched the BIOS (pressing F1 key during the boot) but never seen these
> three possibilities... All I saw was boot configuration and some options
> regarding networking etc...
> How could one get into this configuration?
on my laptop it's in the bios. since it's compiling something at the
moment, i can't boot and check where exactly, just look around. i seem to
recall it was under the first (from the top) sub menu.
> I tried tpctl to enable and configure the port and setserial to
> configure the driver, but minicom still does not connect... (the peer
> computer is proven alive as I manage to connect to it from another
> station).
>
> -then again, this might not be the problem, as setserial does recognize one
> -port. if you have windows on the machine, does the serial port work in it?
>
> Yes, in Windows it works, and Windows report it ot be COM2, 'cause
> COM1 is occupied by modem (built-in)...
oh, so maybe linux recognizes the built in modem as /dev/ttyS0 as well. if
this is the case, i'm pretty sure setting the serial port to Enabled in
the bios will solve your problem.
--
mulix
http://www.advogato.com/person/mulix
linux/reboot.h: #define LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1 0xfee1dead
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