On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Vivek Ayer wrote:
I'm getting zilch. I'm starting to suspect that I got ripped off on
this cable. I could be just as wrong. I just need to test this cable
with a windows machine via hyperterminal to absolutely make sure it's
not working.
Serial cables can be a PAIN -
Alright guysthe serial cable was indeed bad. I finally got the ok prompt.
Only one problem. I can't type anything at the ok prompt. I can
terminate cu and get back in, but when I'm in, I can't type anything.
If I let it come up to a SunOS login, I can type stuff. This is really
weird. I used
Vivek Ayer wrote:
... I
type cu -l /dev/tty00 -s 9600 and it says Connected. So I turn on
the Blade and nothing comes up on the console. I know that Sun
workstations work really well with serial port. I plugged the cable
into serial port A...
I'm not sure about the Blades but the T1000's
On 2008-10-13, Vivek Ayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
does length affect the pinout? I mean I even tried just hooking up the
null modem cable placing the two PC's backs to each other. It should
work in that case, right? I'm not at the computer now, but I'll try
the Ctrl+break. So the procedure
I didn't understand this part.
you want to send a BREAK over the serial line. from cu, you do
this by typing ~# at the start of a line (i.e. press enter first).
If you're connecting over SSH, you need to escape the first tilde
since it's also used by SSH: ~~#
I issue the cu command, it says
On 2008/10/13 09:57, Vivek Ayer wrote:
I didn't understand this part.
you want to send a BREAK over the serial line. from cu, you do
this by typing ~# at the start of a line (i.e. press enter first).
If you're connecting over SSH, you need to escape the first tilde
since it's also used by
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Vivek Ayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So assuming the cable is the right cable, in short, what would I have
to do to install OpenBSD on a sparc64 from a i386 console?
If your devaliases are set up correctly type:
boot cdrom with an install cd in.
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I'm getting zilch. I'm starting to suspect that I got ripped off on
this cable. I could be just as wrong. I just need to test this cable
with a windows machine via hyperterminal to absolutely make sure it's
not working.
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 17:41:49 Oct 13, Vivek Ayer wrote:
I'm getting zilch. I'm starting to suspect that I got ripped off on
this cable. I could be just as wrong. I just need to test this cable
with a windows machine via hyperterminal to absolutely make sure it's
not working.
You can create a null modem cable
I'm probably going to return this cable. Actually I could just ask the
IT guys at our uni about the serial cable, since these two beauties
were lying in their salvage bin.
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Girish Venkatachalam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 17:41:49 Oct 13, Vivek Ayer wrote:
I'm
Vivek Ayer wrote:
So assuming the cable is the right cable, in short, what would I have
to do to install OpenBSD on a sparc64 from a i386 console?
I've used the miniroot method on Sun Netra's with good results. See this
URL:
http://openbsd.org/sparc.html
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Well...i have the install43.iso cd. I don't think choosing the media
is my problem. What's the quickest way to see a OpenPROM ok prompt on
a foreign machine? What commands do I use (e.g., cu, tip, etc.)? If I
can get an ok prompt, I'm golden. As of now, I just a white screen
come saying keyboard
Vivek Ayer wrote:
Well...i have the install43.iso cd. I don't think choosing the media
is my problem. What's the quickest way to see a OpenPROM ok prompt on
a foreign machine? What commands do I use (e.g., cu, tip, etc.)? If I
can get an ok prompt, I'm golden.
I normally connect via a
Do you get to see anything before you press Ctrl+Break. All I see from
OpenBSD is a Connected even after I've powered on the Sun. Do you get
to see POST messages, etc?
Thanks,
Vivek
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 4:47 PM, new_guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Vivek Ayer wrote:
Well...i have the
Vivek Ayer wrote:
Do you get to see anything before you press Ctrl+Break.
Yep... looks like this:
Netra t1 (UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.10.27 ME, 1024 MB memory installed, Serial #14272968.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:d9:c9:c8, Host ID: 80d9c9c8.
Boot device: disk File and
Vivek Ayer wrote:
But the cable is short, so I got a regular extension cable to
hook up to it.
It might be advisable to get a longer null modem cable, as you know..
the different between a null modem and strait through cable is the
pinout.
Good luck.
-Brynet
does length affect the pinout? I mean I even tried just hooking up the
null modem cable placing the two PC's backs to each other. It should
work in that case, right? I'm not at the computer now, but I'll try
the Ctrl+break. So the procedure would go:
1. hookup short null modem cable to each end
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