[ltp] serial port on Thinkpad 600E

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Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:11:03 -0400


Christian,

I may be wrong, but I thought the tpctl 1.0 was not intended for the 2.4.x
kernel. I will check, but maybe others can confirm that. If true, that may
be source of your problem.

BTW and OT, how do you like SuSE 7.2? Personally I run 7.1 Pro on my
TP770X. 

ThankYouKindly!
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In <3B322C1F.21C311C2@ira.uka.de>, on 06/21/01 
   at 07:17 PM, Christian Ceelen <ceelen@ira.uka.de> said:

>[Hi,

>[I tried to power on the serial port on my TP with "tpctl -rs1=on" but
>[the result is following:
>[tpctl: serial port 1 base address has been set to 0x66e0
>[resource state:                                       current
>[   serial port 1:                                     disable 0x66e0
>[IRQ4

>[thereafter i set port 1 to its normal address. I tried to communicate
>[with a debug machine, but not a single character was printed in minicom.
>[The debug setup works correctly with Win2k on the same machine. The
>[serial settings look ok (115200, 8N1, IRQs, Port, ttyS's ...), at least
>[setserial finds both UARTS and configures them. 

>[Everything except the "tpctl -rs1=on" and reactions of minicom works
>[perfectly according to different webpages.

>[I'm using Suse 7.2 (tpctl 1.0, Kernel 2.4.4)

>[THX for any helping comment
>[Christian

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