On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote: > > There is no graphics card in the machine and I have to connect via > > serial line. I found a searial cable which I used to connect a laptop > > with a desktop years ago and adapted it via gender-changer and > > 25pin to 9 pin adapter to a Linux laptop. There I started minicom. > > > the cable has to be a null modem. the gender bender you've got there might be > doing interesting things to the wires. Simplest method (which i have used > successfully many times with both alphas and suns) is the 3 wire cable. > tx<-->rx, rx<--> and ground<-->ground :) > 9600,8,1,n IIRC. (9600 baud, 8 bits, no parity, one stop bit) Thanks, got it working with seyon. Now I have to search for the documentation for a valid password of the default installation :).
Kind regards Andreas.