Okay, following reccomendations and my own best guessing I went out and purchased a 'Mac to serial printer' cable and a null-modem adapter. I plug the cables in, fire up minicom on the Lintel (set to 9600N81 as I remember seeing in the IPX firmware), and turn on the IPX. Power comes on, the drive spins up, but I get nothing.
Now, what comes to mind is: Wrong cabling. Wrong serial port settings on the Lintel. Bad serial ports on the IPX. IPX not using serial console. The null-modem adapter is a standard Laplink-comatible cable. The mac cable is a Fellowes part # 99519 (no idea about the pinout on it) I have no 'normal' console on the IPX so I can't change settings unless I get serial console working at this point. If I can rule out the serial cabling I'll probably go ahead and get the keyboard and video adapters instead. Oh yeah, I assume the serial cable should go in port 'A', but I tried it in 'B' anyway and didn't get anything there either. On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Will Lowe wrote: > > > One more question. If it doesn't have a keyboard and monitor plugged in, > > > will it put the console out the serial port automagically? > > > > It should. I know Suns do that automagically, and I know solaris does, and > > I know Debian is supposed to, but I haven't tried it yet, so I can't > > say for certain under Debian. > > yes, this works. It's a sun hardware thing, rather than a software > issue, methinks. >