On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 02:05:03PM -0500, Jacob Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 48 lines which said:
> I'm now getting output on the serial console, using minicom. However, > everything I enter from the keyboard is echoed back as a 0. I do not see > any other output from the box, except for a strange string I got when it > was first booting up. Unfortunately I didn't copy it, but it looked > something like >..,>0>.., etc. I had a lot of problems with an Ultra 10 and the serial port A. The solution I used was: 1) Plug in a Sun keyboard. 2) Before booting, Hold STOP and N and do not release them until the machine booted. This will reset the NVRAM. Ordinary users typically do not have brand-new Sparc, only second-hand machines and you never know the previous settings. 3) Without seeing anything, type STOP and A simultaneously. You will go to the boot prompt (but, without a Sun monitor, you will not see it). Then type: setenv output-device ttyb setenv input-device ttyb reset Then, the second serial port, B, which uses a much more common DB9, should work.