Re: Serial console on IPX (Was: Sparc serial port pinout?)
Okay, following reccomendations and my own best guessing I went out and
purchased a 'Mac to serial printer' cable and a null-modem adapter. I plug
the cables in, fire up minicom on the Lintel (set to 9600N81 as I remember
seeing in the IPX firmware), and turn on the IPX. Power comes on, the
drive spins up, but I get nothing.
Now, what comes to mind is:
Wrong cabling.
Wrong serial port settings on the Lintel.
Bad serial ports on the IPX.
IPX not using serial console.
The null-modem adapter is a standard Laplink-comatible cable. The mac
cable is a Fellowes part # 99519 (no idea about the pinout on it)
I have no 'normal' console on the IPX so I can't change settings unless I
get serial console working at this point. If I can rule out the serial
cabling I'll probably go ahead and get the keyboard and video adapters
instead.
Oh yeah, I assume the serial cable should go in port 'A', but I tried it
in 'B' anyway and didn't get anything there either.
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Will Lowe wrote:
> > > One more question. If it doesn't have a keyboard and monitor plugged in,
> > > will it put the console out the serial port automagically?
> >
> > It should. I know Suns do that automagically, and I know solaris does, and
> > I know Debian is supposed to, but I haven't tried it yet, so I can't
> > say for certain under Debian.
>
> yes, this works. It's a sun hardware thing, rather than a software
> issue, methinks.
>
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