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Date:	Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:59:32 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: More mysteries on COM1 (TP 600X) RESOLVED

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Jeffrey Race said:

> The 600X lacks a GUI TP configuration utility; you have to use the PS2
> CLI utility. Unfortunately there is no help or readme for this utility.
>
> It turns out not only must you turn on the COM port [PS2 SE ON], you must
> also ENABLE it [PS2 SERA E]. This works for both DOS and OS/2 (in fact
> OS/2 uses the DOS CLI utility in a DOS box). When you reboot, it works.

Wouldn't something like this normally be controlled by a BIOS setting: turn it ON,
and _whatever_ OS should just see it ? (Well, maybe not DOS, which was ancient
history by the time more contemporary laptops -- even the 600 -- came along . . . .
)

Jordan

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