[ltp] Enabling Serial Port?

[Juan Pablo Martinez Sanchez]

Hello,

I have a ThinkPad 600x and i had the same problem, the serial port was
disabled by default to save energy and any linux didn't enable it at boot
time.

If i were you i would use directly the setpnp and lspnp utilities to
enable the serial port.


Good luck.



On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Huntress Gary B NPRI wrote:

> Thinkpad 600e running RH 7.3
>
> I have never tried to use the serial port on the back before and tonight I tried to sync my palm pilot using gpilot.  I used setserial to lock the speed at 56k and I verified on the palm that it was set to 56k too.  I'm assuming the serial port is /dev/ttyS0.
>
> I appear to get no communication at all (no hotsync) but there really is no way to tell.
>
> It seems unlikely to me but could the serial port be disabled?  If so would I use tpctl to enable it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary H.
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