Re: Serial console on IPX (Was: Sparc serial port pinout?)
Can a sysadmin friend take you into his jobsite some weekend? You don't
necessarily need full-time access to monitor/keyboard/mouse, just long
enough to be sure you're set up well enough to do further work headless.
Also, having at least part-time access to a head makes recompiling
kernels, etc., FAR less painful. (Believe me, I know!)
--Walter
wkeeler@acm.org *******************************
Walter Keeler * If my words did glow... *
San Francisco, CA *******************************
On Sat, 6 Nov 1999 ferret@phonewave.net wrote:
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>
> On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Walter Keeler wrote:
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> > Here's a basic question:
> >
> > What happens when you unplug the serial cable and then power up the IPX?
> > Does it spin up and make disk access noises?
>
> Unplugged cable, powered on IPX. Disk spins up.
>
> >
> > If so, it sure sounds like a cabling issue of some sort.
> >
> > It would make the debugging job a whole lot easier to fire up the IPX with
> > a head, if only to make sure it runs properly to begin with.
>
> Adding a head would put me back about $150 unless I could find a less
> expensive supplier for the keyboard and video converters, and then I
> wouldn't need serial console.
>
> Maybe that would be a better track?
>
> Sun sells a ps2 keyboard and mouse converter for $75, and Blackbox has a
> 13W3/VGA converter for about $45. I would love a head on this thing if it
> wouldn't be quite so expensive.
>
> Oh, and I have no desk/counter/shelf space for a second keyboard and
> mouse at this time.
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> However, I did finally chase up a pinout for the serial port, and I might
> have ended up with either the wrong cable (might need a modem cable
> instead of a printer cable) or I might need a straight instead of a null
> modem cable. Unfortunately I wont be able to test any of those for the
> next two or three days.
>
>
> -- Ferret no baka
>
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