[ltp] Serial Port on TP600E

[Bob Koss]

I'm also having trouble with my serial port on m 700Z. setserial looks 
good, but no communication to the port.  I NEED this port to backup my 
palm pilot.


> > 
> > I have just finished installing RH6.1 to my Thinkpad 600E.  Everything works 
> > fine except the serial port.
> > 
> > I check in Win98 that it uses irq 4 and base address 0x3f8.  Then I boot up 
> > Linux and issue the command
> > 	tpctl --rs1=enable --rs1=0x3f8 --rs1=irq4
> > 
> > Then I double check with setserial and I get
> > 	/dev/ttyS0, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
> > 
> > Everything looks good until I start minicom or ppp.  The modem doesn't work. 
> >   It is an external modem and the lights on it don't blink even once.  Looks 
> > like nothing is being sent to the modem.
> 
> Have you compiled serial port support as a module?  You will probably
> need to unload/reload the module after having enabled the serial port.
> If you compiled serial port support as a static part of the kernel,
> you'll most likely need to reboot.
> 


Huh?  Are you saying that the kernel out of the RH6.0 box doesn't
support a serial port unless you recompile it???


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