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From: BillW50 on 11 Jan 2010 17:20 In news:4b4aac40$0$14132$703f8584(a)textnews.kpn.nl, Sjouke Burry typed on Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:42:39 +0100: > The port might be disabled in the bios?? > Or in a non-standard bios state? > That is certainly possible for the parallel port, > I am not sure about your serial port. Thanks Sjouke! I was in there before and everything looked good. And I just fired it up again and double checked. There are three settings: Off, On, and Auto. The latter lets the BIOS and OS adjust the settings. Basically Plug and Play. The On setting allows you manual control of the serial port. It is currently set to auto. The serial and parallel ports are there on or off of the docking station. Although there is no serial or parallel ports on the laptop itself. There are two ways of doing this. One that the ports are real and are wired to the docking port. Or they do it through the USB. Although drivers should be required for the latter, I would think. I would think the former since the BIOS knows about it even without the docking station. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Windows XP SP3
From: BillW50 on 11 Jan 2010 17:38 In news:hif7d6$96g$1(a)news.eternal-september.org, nick typed on Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:00:22 +0000 (UTC): > Bill, > > assuming the COM port is enabled in the BIOS the next thing I would > try is a loopback test on the port. > > Make yourself a loopback adapter with a D9F connector and use > hyperterminal or something to send and receive data. Hi Nick! Yes that is on my todo list, but it isn't that pressing. As I can live without a real serial port maybe indefinitely. Although the part that would be pressing is whether the laptop or the docking station is at fault. If the latter, I can exchange it. Although I only have so much time I guess to do that. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Windows XP SP3
From: Sjouke Burry on 11 Jan 2010 17:56 BillW50 wrote: > In news:4b4aac40$0$14132$703f8584(a)textnews.kpn.nl, > Sjouke Burry typed on Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:42:39 +0100: >> The port might be disabled in the bios?? >> Or in a non-standard bios state? >> That is certainly possible for the parallel port, >> I am not sure about your serial port. > > Thanks Sjouke! I was in there before and everything looked good. And I > just fired it up again and double checked. There are three settings: > Off, On, and Auto. The latter lets the BIOS and OS adjust the settings. > Basically Plug and Play. The On setting allows you manual control of the > serial port. It is currently set to auto. > > The serial and parallel ports are there on or off of the docking > station. Although there is no serial or parallel ports on the laptop > itself. There are two ways of doing this. One that the ports are real > and are wired to the docking port. Or they do it through the USB. > Although drivers should be required for the latter, I would think. I > would think the former since the BIOS knows about it even without the > docking station. > I dont know much about docking stations, but I expect the laptop bios in the auto mode to disable them when outside the docking station. If you are not using shutdown, but sleep instead, I would expect the laptop not to enable the ports, when you plug it back in. Personally I would use the "On" setting in the bios, and the "standard" option when available, but I dont know your bios well enough.
From: Sjouke Burry on 11 Jan 2010 18:02
BillW50 wrote: > In news:4b4aac40$0$14132$703f8584(a)textnews.kpn.nl, > Sjouke Burry typed on Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:42:39 +0100: >> The port might be disabled in the bios?? >> Or in a non-standard bios state? >> That is certainly possible for the parallel port, >> I am not sure about your serial port. > > Thanks Sjouke! I was in there before and everything looked good. And I > just fired it up again and double checked. There are three settings: > Off, On, and Auto. The latter lets the BIOS and OS adjust the settings. > Basically Plug and Play. The On setting allows you manual control of the > serial port. It is currently set to auto. > > The serial and parallel ports are there on or off of the docking > station. Although there is no serial or parallel ports on the laptop > itself. There are two ways of doing this. One that the ports are real > and are wired to the docking port. Or they do it through the USB. > Although drivers should be required for the latter, I would think. I > would think the former since the BIOS knows about it even without the > docking station. > Oh, and btw, the physical ports I think ARE on the laptop, it is just that the connectors are on the docking station, with the wiring coming from the multipin docking connector. |