From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 18:14:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADFEB37B845 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 18:14:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e7H1E4T17523; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 18:14:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 18:14:04 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Otter Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serial communication with Sparc Station 20 Message-ID: <20000816181404.T4854@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from otterr@telocity.com on Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 12:05:19PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Otter [000816 13:38] wrote: > I've got a Sparc with no ethernet access. Because of this, I've > connected a serial cable to it so I can have a console login on the > Sparc from my FreeBSD box over ethernet when I'm remote. Currently, > I'm using Kermit, but haven't ben able to figure out or find out how > to send the Stop+A signal needed to get to the Open Boot Prom prompt. > How can I do this from a PC keyboard? OBP is v2.15, if it matters. If > any of you have any suggestions or personal experience with this, I am > not opposed to using other apps for getting this functionality. Any > recommendations? TIA. use 'cu', the manpage makes it look obscenely complex but it's really as simple as: cu -l /dev/cuaaX -s 9600 you can then use ~# to send break and ~. to exit cu. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message