Re: Serial console on IPX (Was: Sparc serial port pinout?)
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?
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.
--Walter Keeler
wkeeler@acm.org *******************************
Walter Keeler * If my words did glow... *
San Francisco, CA *******************************
On Sat, 6 Nov 1999 ferret@phonewave.net wrote:
>
>
> 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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