Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 05:12:24 -0600 From: "John R. Shannon" <john@johnrshannon.com> To: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use as serial terminal Message-ID: <200210170512.26333.john@johnrshannon.com> In-Reply-To: <20021016232556.K41667-100000@workhorse.imach.com> References: <20021016232556.K41667-100000@workhorse.imach.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks. I got it working. I had a cable wiring problem. On Wednesday 16 October 2002 11:29 pm, Forrest W. Christian wrote: > On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, John R. Shannon wrote: > > Any suggestions for debugging the problem? > > Try a null modem cable and/or get one of the serial port "serial port LED > thingys" from radio shack or similar to determine if your pinning is > correct. > > Generally you need a null modem cable between the two devices. Flipping > pins 2&3 in the cable *should* at least get you the POST messages out of > the sun box if this is the problem. If it is, you will need to do some > more work to get a proper null modem cable. > > - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Innovation Machine Ltd. P.O. Box 5749 > http://www.imach.com/ Helena, MT 59604 > Home of PacketFlux Technologies and BackupDNS.com (406)-442-6648 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Protect your personal freedoms - visit http://www.lp.org/ - -- John R. Shannon john@johnrshannon.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAj2umxgACgkQOKbCxya4HYuGXQCcDQtwa+BKgt+ZjRn41WF9qulQ t3kAnjlSAA9aK1Vy0USzfw2HBV549BPT =eDzx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the messagehelp
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