All, We've got a Sun Sparc 5 sitting around and we've installed Debian 2.1 (Slink) on it. So far so good. We'd like to hook up an external modem to one of the serial ports (back side of Sparc has two serial ports, A and B). I've tried it but couldn't get it to work. setserial reports an unknown uart type and on intel boxes this means trouble so it this also true for Sparc boxes? When the external modem is hooked up to port "A" using a straight-thru cable I get some lights on the modem to blink. In /dev I find ttyS0-4 and cua0-1, using minicom I've tried them all and they all have the same result. When minicom sents the initialization string first the "TR" light blinks once and then stays on and then the "TD" is blinking a couple of times. When I tried this with port "B" I don't see any modem activity. Some details, it is a SUN Sparcstation 5 and it is running kernel 2.0.35, the default provided with Debian 2.1. Any help is appreciated, Lolke Bijlsma [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of the message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
