I just bought a thinkpad t23. I am using braille and speech screenreading programs for which the hardware requires a serial port. I have been unable to get them to work and the dmesg that I have been able to access by running the rescue and root floppies for woody, going to the other console and directing the output of dmesg to a file on a floppy and then reading the file using my desktop, which does have speech and braille working, shows no serial port although of course i do have one. It is my understanding that probably the serial port is turned off on this machine. I can not access the bios without sighted help because there is no way for me to read it. I also cannot access the hard drive even with a dos boot floppy, probably because the file system is ntfs or fat-32 and not supported by dos-6.2, which is what I have. somebody sent me the following files from an older thinkpad T20: ps2.exe ps2main.exe ps2.msg ps2.ver which I copied onto a bootable dos floppy with the following batch file:
@echo off ps2 serial on ps2 sera enable which on the T20 apparently turned on the serial port without the need to get into the bios. I then rebooted into dos again and tested, also tried running the speech and braille modified woody install floppies again; still no speech and no serial port. Is there any way to make this work? Do I need different or additional files or different or additional commands or must I wait until i can get a sighted person to get into the bios for me? Thanks. Cheryl
