[ltp] BIOS recognition of serial port

[nut megger]

System: ThinkPad X21 with Ultrabay
 
Operating systems tried:
    (1) Fedora Core 2 (currently)
    (2) Mandrake 10.0
    (3) RedHat 9.0
 
 GUI: Gnome
 
 Modem: Hawkins Serial Modem (Hayes compatible)
The modem works perfectly on a serial port of a Sun
UltraSpark Workstation running Aurora Linux (a 
version fo RedHat 7.3 ported to Sun)
 
 Ultrabay: can locate and use diskette drive, mouse
port and RW-CD drive

Problem: Cannot detect the serial modem located on
port ttyS0 on the Ultrabay, so I am unable to connect
to my ISP.

I have the latest BIOS update installed and the serial
port is ENABLED.  How do I get Linux to see the serial
port?  There must be a BIOS config utility that I do
not have that can solve this 2 month problem.

BTW: I have tried everything from minicom to modem
lights to etc,, etc, etc, with no success in seeing
the serial device.



		
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