[ltp] Serial Port on T21 unrecognised on boot

[Charles E Taylor IV]

> I am currently being tortured by RH 9/T21 combo. First I couldn't get
> the winmodem to work so got myself an external serial one that is Hayes
> compatible and explicitly supports Linux(Zoom 3049C), only to my horror
> to find that the serial port is unrecognised on the system! Any of you
> experienced similar initial pains and can help me out here? 

On a lot of Thinkpads (not sure if the T21 is one of them), the serial
port is disabled by default in the BIOS.  You might want to check there
and enable it if necessary.

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