$Id: thinkpad-casio.txt,v 1.1 2000/01/20 01:45:26 aoki Exp $

- general notes

  - as of ActiveSync 3.0, setting up a WinCE device no longer requires
    RAS (Remote Access Service, aka dialup services) to be set up on
    the WinNT (host) side.

  - the default is to connect by serial line at 19.2Kbp/s.  this is
    probably safest place to start, as you never know how good the
    WinNT host PC's serial transceiver and UART are.  however, on Dell
    PCs, you can apparently set the serial connection to the fastest
    available speed, 115Kb/s.

- on the Cassiopeia:

  - set the serial speed.  if you have a reasonable PC, i recommend
    you go ahead and do this before you first connect; resetting the
    connection speed (and perhaps other parameters) later may cause
    the host-side software to believe that a "new" device has
    connected.  this may require deleting and recreating the default
    mobile device.

    Settings -> Communications -> PC Connection -> Change Connection 
      -> Serial @ 115K

- on the Thinkpad:

  - enable serial port as COM2

    COM1 is usually used by the lucent winmodem.  you can either try
    to share the COM1 port, or you can just set the external serial
    port to be COM2 or COM3.  i did not have very good luck getting
    things to work on COM1 (e.g., ActiveSync thinks the modem is
    present on COM1) so i recommend using a different port.

    (note that the default port for IR services seems to be COM2, so i
    happened to pick COM3 as my serial port.  but it doesn't really
    matter, as long as you're willing to configure things; at other
    times i have used successfully used COM2 per the instructions
    below.)

    - enable the COM2 port in BIOS

      Thinkpad Configuration -> Serial -> Enable, COM2
      - or -
      BIOS -> Config -> Advanced -> Serial Port -> Enable, "2F8 IRQ3"

    - reboot

    - enable the new "port" in WinNT

      selecting the "default" option for the system resource
      parameters below (instead of explicit IRQs and I/O addresses)
      may work.  i went ahead and set them to parameters that match
      what i used in the BIOS setup menu.

      Control Panel -> Ports -> Add -> COM2, 02F8, IRQ3

      don't reboot (yet)!

      select COM2; Settings -> 115K

    - reboot

- Install and configure ActiveSync 3.0 per instructions