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Re: Dell laptop serial port
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Originally Posted by Eldarion
Seeing as the port replicator interfaces directly to the mainboard of the laptop over a high-speed bus, chances are it would be more like adding a daughterboard with a serial port and it might even be assigned IRQs and I/O addresses by the laptop's BIOS, in which case it should be indistinguishable from a normal serial port.

Just my $0.02.
Yes, that's the case with my IBM Thinkpad.
I/O Range:03F8-03FF
IRQ: 04
Location: on Intel(R) 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller - 24CC
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