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SUMMARY: How to set up serial console on Solaris x86 2.X

Alex Natautama -- Fri, 21 Jan 2000 12:13:03 +0100 (MET)

A BIG THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING SUN MANAGERS who have offered very good suggestions:
(and to those who are still thinking hard about this):

"Michael Miller" <Michael.Miller@oyster.co.uk>
"David Robillard" <drobilla@Matrox.COM> 
"Christian Pinheiro" <pinheiro@veritel.com.br> 
"Kevin Ying" <kevin@interq.or.jp> 

Basically I have a Hewlett Packard Vectra PC running Solaris 2.6 x86 and I wanted to set up a serial
terminal as the console (connected to the Vectra's COM1 port).

What I had to do in the end was:

1. Null modem cable with Carrier Detect (CD) and Data Set Ready (DSR) set to HIGH.
    (from http://www.sun.pmbc.com/faq/6.html )

2. Execute the following commands in correct order (from MIchael Miller)
eeprom ttya-ignore-cd=true
eeprom input-device=ttya
eeprom output-device=ttya

—----------------------- My original question was:

> 
> Hi Sun Managers,
> 
> Has anyone successfully setup a serial console (on COM1) 
> using Solaris x86 2.6 ?
> 
> I have tried the following two methods to no avail:
> 
> 1. Add the entry "set console=1" to the /etc/system file and reboot
> 2. Issue "eeprom input-device=ttya" , "eeprom 
> output-device=ttya" and reboot
> 
> Your advice would be greatly appreciated.


THANKS AGAIN

Alex Natautama
Security Management Group
Telecom Systems
Telecom New Zealand Ltd