[ltp] Questions/Pointers for ThinkPad 600 Model 2645-21u

[Ross Patterson]

On Tuesday 10 June 2003 03:29 pm, MegaBight wrote:
> Can you give me some examples? What will I lose out on if I don't do
> DOS and run
> this PS2.EXE thingy??

Sure - there are a few device-control issues in ThinkPads.  One you read about 
often on this list is serial ports.  It appears that tpctl is unable to 
activate the serial port unless it has been previously enabled by either 
PS2.EXE or the Windows "ThinkPad Configuration" tool.  So, for example, when 
I wanted to hook my PDA up to my 600X for serial-based syncronization, I had 
to somehow get the serial port enabled on a machine that had *never* run DOS 
or Windows.
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Ross A. Patterson
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