Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:17:49 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Thomas Pornin <pornin@bolet.org> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AXPpci33 <-> Sparc sun4c serial cable Message-ID: <20020903201749.F14118@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20020903190239.A48033@gnah.bolet.org>; from pornin@bolet.org on Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 07:02:40PM %2B0200 References: <20020903190239.A48033@gnah.bolet.org>
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On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 07:02:40PM +0200, Thomas Pornin wrote: > I shall soon acquire an old IPC Sun SparcStation. Those stations can > use a serial console, and are actually supposed to switch to a serial > console in the absence of any keyboard (there might be a switch on the Yep, just omit the keyboard. Works fine (on my SS5, and used to work on my IPC as well). > board but that's not a problem). If I remember correctly, the DB25 > connector is female on those stations, and it is possible that the pin > layout is non-standard. Yep female, but IIRC the pin layout is standard. > What I would like to do is connecting the serial ports of the Alpha > and the Sparc machines so that I could control the Sparc console from > a shell on the Alpha machine. I have two questions: > > ** What software should I use on the Alpha box ? I know there exists > some program called "minicom", which has a FreeBSD port, that might > be adequate. But is this the standard solution ? Whatever you prefer. I tend to use 'tip' which is part of the base system. > ** What is the layout of the serial cable to use ? I suspect that there > are non-standard serial ports on some Alpha machines for the following > reason: I once had a Multia, which is basically a NoName board in a > small box. That Multia could use a vt220 as console when no keyboard > was connected. A simple null-modem cable worked (those cables sold as > "doom-cable", with a DB9 and a DB25 at each end). I tried the same > setting on my current Alpha machine, and it did not work. Hmm, nothing special I remember. The connector on the NoName mainboard has a 'special' pinout compared to what PC mainboards have. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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