On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 04:17:19PM -0600, Alvaro F. Figueroa Cabezas wrote: > > I'm trying to get a couple of Ultra-5s and an Ultra 10 to send the console > > via serial A. WHat do I need to do? On Intel machines I need a new kernel. > > > Is this necessary on debian? > s/debian/sparc > > You could do it at a PROM level, instead of a kernel level. > > Go to de prom, and set up the prom variables "output-device" and > "input-device" to "ttyb" (the 9 pin serial) or to "ttya".
Or the prom variables "input-device" on "keyboard" and "output-device" on "screen" and deconnect the keyboard. If the SUN does not find a keyboard in fall back to using ttya as the console. Harald