Re: 770ED - Both Serial & IR Ports?

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From: Stephen Hosmer (hosmer_at_royl.com)
Date: Mon Jan 04 1999 - 13:43:18 EST


I have a 770 running Win NT. Does anyone know how to make both IR and Serial work on NT?

On Thu, 17 Dec 1998 01:52:24 PST, Benjamin Koh wrote:

> I have a 560X, but the same should apply to your 770ED. If you're
>using Win95 like me, go to device manager (and the TP config program),
>disable IR, enable the serial port and reboot. Use device manager again
>to change the IRQ for the serial port - you can use any of the alternate
>settings. Reboot to enable the changes. Enable the IR port. The thinkpad
>configuration program should no longer complain of conflicts. Reboot yet
>again to activate the settings. You should then have both IR and serial
>port active. I had this same problem a week ago; I have a scanner on the
>serial port and sync to my PDA on IR; both are active simultaneously.
>
>Good luck.
>Benjamin
>
>>
>>I have disabled the Mwave DSP modem on my 770ED and replaced it with a
>>Megahertz combo Ethernet / Modem card. This has freed an IRQ on my
>system (3).
>>I have the RS-232 port on the back of the system configured at the
>moment. The
>>only way I could figure out how to do so was to disable the IR port.
>Now, I'd
>>like to re-enable the IR port, but it appears the only way to do that
>is to
>>disable the RS-232!
>>
>>Is there any way to have it all??? I'd like to be able to have my
>RS-232 port
>>connected to another computer AND use the IR port for things like
>printing or
>>PDA sync, without having to switch them both around and have a re-boot
>or two
>>each time I need to go from one to the other.
>>
>>Any help would be appreciated, even if it is an RTFM into the manuals
>I've
>>just received and haven't had a chance to read, yet. (BTW, the controls
>on the
>>755CE let me set IRQs, etc. for the various devices.)
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
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