Re: Ultra 5

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 10:10:23AM +0200, Jan Houstek wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Patrick Morris wrote:
> 
> > Any old external modem will work just fine.  As far as configuring it,
> > it's no different on Sparc hardware than any other Debian box.
> 
> I didn't manage to get the serial ports working on Ultra 5 and Ultra 10. I
> have the sab82532 module loaded. /proc/interrupts seems like this
> 
>   0:    8778067  timer:dead
>   3:      51441  ide0:7e0
>   4:          0  su(mouse):7ea
>   5:     950161  HAPPY MEAL:7e1
>   8:        607  parport0:7e2
>   9:          0  su(kbd):7e9
>  12:          0  serial(sab82532):7eb
>  13:          0  cs4231:7e3
>  14:          0  cs4231:7e4
>  15:          0  SABRE UE:7ee, SABRE CE:7ef, SABRE PCIERR:7f0, power:7e5
> 
> But when I connect serial mouse to the port, move it, push the buttons
> etc., there are no interrupts.

I've never heard of anyone using serial mouse on a ultrasparc. Maybe you
should try a null modem cable with a terminal on it (minicom from Linux
or hyper-terminal from windows) and see if even that works.

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