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PostPosted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:43 am    Post subject: installing on ultra 10, no keys or monitor Reply with quote

Hm, this is getting out of my control.... i wonder if it ever was in my control :?

anyway. I have a sun ultra10, i have ofcourse a monitor but i dont have a keyboard. So after reading quite a bit in this forums and in the gentoo docs i found that i can use a console conection over serial interface. So this is what i am trying now trying to follow thiese instructions:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-sparc-faq.xml

How do i know that the box is actually working. I tryed connecting a monitor, all it says is that since no keyboard is detected, is that it will use ttya for input and output. what does this mean :?:

Help please..
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

:idea: :oops: Yes of course, ttya is com port A..... which is a DB25. and I don't have a convertor at the moment :cry:

Anyway, to connect to a console on a U10 is possible.. right?
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 5:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ok, i´ll do another try on this thread.

Now i actually have a DB25 connector but i cant get it to work. any idea?
When you guys connect to a console using serial, does the prompt appear right away or is there some serious tweaking needed to make it work?

What terminal emulators are you guys using? i´m on winXP.

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 8:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Any terminal program should more or less work (hyperterminal, tera term, etc) if you have the correct cable... If I'm not mistaken, you need a null-modem cable. (A cisco console cable will also work, I'm note sure though whether cisco console cable == null-modem cable)

Normally, no extra tweaking is required. (maybe your your bps should be 9600?)
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yup teraterm is ok :]

And you need null-modem or adapters and rj-45 rolled cable.

After connecting just set new connection in your terminal on proper com and go :] Settings are 9600-8-1
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

it feels like i have tried all different cables there is and i cant screw it up totally. so i start to beleive that maybe the box is actually broken. Well, there must be some reason for it to be put on a shelf anyway. Iäm just installing gentoo on an x86. but i wont give up yet.

Thanks for the replies.

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