From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Aug 15 15:54:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EE4037B403 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 15:54:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA70120; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 00:54:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Bob Van Valzah Cc: FreeBSD-mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ThinkPad 600X Serial Ports Hang References: <3B7564E0.1050207@Talarian.Com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 16 Aug 2001 00:54:07 +0200 In-Reply-To: <3B7564E0.1050207@Talarian.Com> Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bob Van Valzah writes: > I'm running 4.3-RELEASE on a ThinkPad 600X. I long ago gave up on > getting the built-in serial port to work since it's apparently powered > off and I have no way to boot DOS or Windows on it (I understand > that'd be required to apply power to the built-in serial port). Get a DOS boot disk with the PS2.EXE utility on it, boot from the disk, use PS2.EXE to disable the IrDA interface and enable the RS232 (COM) interface instead. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message