Hello all,

I recently acquired a Netra machine and now I'm trying to get it set up.
The first thing I did was change the jumpers for the serial ports so
that they would operate using RS-232 instead of the default RS-423.
I've connected to the machine using a DB-9 female to DB-25 male null
modem cable. I'm using the terminal program minicom under Linux. I've
set the baud rate to 9600, data bits to 8, stop bits to 1, parity to
none. I've tried both the A and B serial port, but I can't get any
response. I'm totally new at this, so I could be missing something
obvious. Most of the Sun documentation I've come across doesn't say
anything about how to connect a PC to a Netra, so I was wondering if
anyone can offer me some advice or point me to some documentation that
explains how to do this.

Thanks!

--John

John Valko wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I recently acquired a Netra machine and now I'm trying to get it set up.
> The first thing I did was change the jumpers for the serial ports so
> that they would operate using RS-232 instead of the default RS-423. I've
> connected to the machine using a DB-9 female to DB-25 male null modem
> cable. I'm using the terminal program minicom under Linux. I've set
> the baud rate to 9600, data bits to 8, stop bits to 1, parity to none.
> I've tried both the A and B serial port, but I can't get any response.
> I'm totally new at this, so I could be missing something obvious. Most
> of the Sun documentation I've come across doesn't say anything about how
> to connect a PC to a Netra, so I was wondering if anyone can offer me
> some advice or point me to some documentation that explains how to do this.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --John

Well, it looks like my problem was actually that I didn't have my Linux
kernel set right. I rebuilt with SLIP and raw serial port access and
now it works!

--John