[ltp] IBM 600E, RH9, minicom problem

[Bill Voight]

Bert,

Thanks for your thoughts.  I don't believe it is disabled.  I ran the 
tests from the BIOS and it checked out OK.  I'm not familiar with the 
Thinkpad BIOS (I'm mostly a Sun guy).  Other than hitting F1 at the 
proper time and running the diags, there does not seem to be any to 
disable the serial port.  I've downloaded the manual in pdf format and 
looked at it with no success.

I've also installed the kernel-module-thinkpad and tpctl.  Tpctl  
reports it can't open device /dev/thinkpad.

If you think of anything else, I'm listening.

Bill Voight

Bert Haskins wrote:

> Are you certain that the serial port is not ( bios) disabled?
> Check it with PS2
> ...... Bert
>
> Bill Voight wrote:
>
>> Sports fans,
>>
>> IBM 600E, RH9, minicom serial port  Setup- /dev/ttyS0 9600 8N1, 
>> Hardware flow control, no Software Flow Control
>>
>> I'm using settings identical to those I've been using on several 
>> other RH boxes to connect to the A serial port of some U2's.  I am 
>> using a known good null modem cable and gender bender to connect.  
>> Works fine on the desktops, no dice on the IBM 600e.  I've run the 
>> diags from the 600E's bios- they show everything's OK.  Have had no 
>> luck with docs- I haven't found anything indicating there's anything 
>> different about the serial port on a 600E.  Setserial output from 
>> both is listed below- it's identical.  Anybody got any ideas?
>>
>> Here's setserial output from the desktop:
>>
>> /root >  setserial -av /dev/ttyS0
>> /dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
>>       Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
>>       closing_wait: 3000
>>       Flags: spd_normal skip_test
>>
>> Here's setserial output from the laptop:
>>
>> [root@ibmgeek root]# setserial -av /dev/ttyS0
>> /dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
>>       Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
>>       closing_wait: 3000
>>       Flags: spd_normal skip_test
>>
>>
>>
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