David Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote: > If you happen to establish any serial coms between the laptop and your > linux host,
Well, I've just tried it, and it doesn't work either. Going into Control Panel -> Ports, I saw an empty list where one normally sees COM1 and COM2. I've tried adding COM1, it added, asked me to reboot - did so. After the reboot I do see the port that I've added, but the rest of WinNT system still apparently doesn't see it: the procedure for adding a modem doesn't seem to see it, and neither does HyperTerminal. It must be some kind of Weendoze issue and my Weendoze skills are nowhere near sufficient to resolve it. Normally my next step in a situation like this would be to take the system to a Weendoze expert (such as my dad), but I have a feeling that given the totally unknown state of this OS install, the expert would probably want to reinstall the OS as first order business - which brings us back to the non-working CD-ROM. Oh, and it is some funky external CD-ROM drive, and it was probably never meant to be bootable even back when it did once work... That's why I'm leaning toward finding another laptop... MS _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
