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| Chris Thomas <chrisvai777%hotmail.com> wrote: > > I wonder if any one can help. I am trying to use our Wyse terminal to > connect to our Sunfire V120 server using the RJ45 connector. This > used to work fine but all of a sudden it seems to have stopped > working. No changes have been made to the server etc (Solaris 8). Alas, the description "seems to have stopped working" is not a lot of information from which to diagnose the problem. Have you tried any troubleshooting? (One caution is to avoid sending a serial BREAK signal from the terminal, which could halt execution of Solaris and drop control into the Open Boot PROM. I don't know if the V120 has a panel key switch with a "Locked" position, but, if so, you should set the switch that way while experimenting, to prevent the OBP from gaining control if BREAK gets sent inadvertently.) > Does anyone know what settings the terminal should be set with > (e.g., comms, display, etc.)? The normal Sun console settings would be 9600 bps, 8 bits, no parity, but these parameters are mutable via the OBP. Is it possible that some mischievous person replaced the serial cable on this terminal? Perhaps it needs a "null modem" connection but now has a straight-through cable? Some folklore about Sun (and SGI) serial consoles is archived here: http://www.obsolyte.com/sunFAQ/serial/ Some other discussion of how to use a serial console terminal with a Sun server is visible behind the link "discussion of Unix and Linux terminal use" at: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/termi...etup.html#unix -- Your cow joke might be worth a Frisbee. http://www.stonyfield.com/weblogarch...op/000651.html |