[ltp] thinkpad serial killer!

[jeff]

On Saturday 25 December 2004 12:44, /dev/rob0 wrote:
> On Friday 24 December 2004 23:34, I wrote:
> > I am having a devil of a time trying to activate the serial port on a
> > new pair of old Thinkpads I got: 600 (2645-8EU) and 600X (2645-9FU).
>
> One last idea, but I think it's a long shot: is it possible to use the
> ibm-acpi driver on these old thinkpads? The site does not list any
> 600's as supported, and CMOS control doesn't mention setting PnP device
> resources, so it looks like uncharted territory.

ACPI doesn't work with my 600. It displayed a message about the BIOS being too 
old. I don't know about the 600X, but it is most likely the same BIOS.

Jeff