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

[Ken Restivo]

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Actually, I was told to use a pnp-enabled pcmcia-cs package and the lspnp/setpnp tools to enable the serial ports, and was able to do it without having to resort to DOS at all.

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On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 03:48:54PM -0400, Ross Patterson wrote:
> 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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