thanks for lettings us know what it was and how it was fixed, much better than never hearing from you again <snipped> > PROBLEM SOLVED The whole problem was caused by the odd way the MOBO and > bios is setup on this machine. Things in the bios can be adjusted a very > limited amount and the MOBO does some strange stuff with resource sharing > that probably make little sense to anyone on this planet and most of this > stuff seems to apply only to the IBM thinkpad 770s I can see why they > don't make em like this any more and for that matter did not make em like > this for long! Anyway the solution was to get the serial port to move to > com3 in windoze by use of some piece of crap called a thinkpad configurater > that allows adjustments of some features of the bios only from within > windows. The short story is that after I was able to get the serial port > moved to com 3 everything works great. Linux can only see the serial port > and work with it properly if it is set to com 3 in windoze. Glad to be back > to useing a decent email client in a real OS. > > Thanks everybody for your help and suggestions. > > Marc
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