Re: serial terminal wiring hack?

1999-06-10 Thread Matt Wagner
thanks Hendrik, for the purpose of the answer being in the mailling list archive, the url to the documentation on how to remedy this problem is: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/770/fn-tsbreak.html thanks, matt On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Hendrik Visage (Sun) wrote: > Matt Wag

serial terminal wiring hack?

1999-06-09 Thread Matt Wagner
i have a serial terminal on my SS10. when i turn the terminal off and then turn it back on, the machine is no longer in linux! but back at the PROM prompt. apparantly this is a common gripe?? however, i have heard that there is a way to "hotwire" the serial cable to keep the "line alive" signal goi

Re: eject floppy in SS10?

1998-12-04 Thread Matt Wagner
ce... :) maybe i cold try deleting the 'fd0' that is there and MAKEDEV'ing it again? mat On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Chris Trainor wrote: > I hate to ask this, but is the disk mounted when you try to eject it? > > --Chris > > On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Matt Wagner wrot

Re: eject floppy in SS10?

1998-12-03 Thread Matt Wagner
v/fd0* do eject $i done and as you can guess, all come back with the same error as 'eject /dev/fd0'... any ideas? On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Chris Trainor wrote: > Install the Eject package. :) then do eject floppy > or in some cases, eject /dev/fd0 > > --chris >

eject floppy in SS10?

1998-12-03 Thread Matt Wagner
i seem to have a bit of a problem. :) how the heck to i get the floppy out of my SS10 machine... there's got to be a better way other than the paperclip! :) TIA matt -- the SYSTEM owns you SYSTEM, n.: 1: a regular union of principles or parts formin