From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 14 04:57:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA06968 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 04:57:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from inter03.lion.net ([195.50.148.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA06963 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 04:57:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lucky.lion.de ([192.109.89.2]) by inter03.lion.net (Netscape Mail Server v2.0) with SMTP id AAA24876; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 13:54:45 +0200 Received: from willi.lion.de by lucky.lion.de (SMI-8.6/SMI-4.1) id NAA22306; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 13:56:17 +0200 Received: from localhost by willi.lion.de (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA01127; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 13:56:17 +0200 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 13:56:17 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Haas To: Michael Smith Cc: FreeBSD-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: weird cable In-Reply-To: <199704141141.VAA27032@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > > So a SUN uses a simple RS232 interface to attach its keyboard ? > > Yup, like many sensible workstation vendors, a real, async serial > protocol. None of this clocked bidirectional two-wire sync crap 8) > > I'm not sure what baudrate, as the Sparc driver just reads whatever > the firmware, but its 8 bits, no parity, one stop bit as far as I can > tell. Great, thanks a bunch. And if you can tell me the pinout of the keyborad's mini DIN connector I'll invite you to a pint of Guiness (or whatever beer you prefer) ;-) > You'll want src/sys/arch/sparc/dev/kbd.c and zs.c, just FYI. Thanks, I think I've to visit ftp.netbsd.org in the next couple of hours. Christoph -- Christoph Haas o.tel.o GmbH | Never trust an operating UNIX Sysadmin Universitaetsstrasse 140| system you don't have the 44799 Bochum / Germany | sources for. mailto:haas@lion.de http://www.o-tel-o.de | http://www.freebsd.org