[SunRescue] Keyboard Substitute

[Darryl Barile]

Well what I'm really looking for is an easy way to bypass the keyboard
requirement all
together. I seem to find most of my Suns when I'm not carrying a keyboard or
a laptop.
There never seems to be a serial cable around when ya need one.

I do like the Palm Pilot hookup though. Not as simple as a plug but pretty
close..


----- Original Message -----
From: josh grubman <jg at false.net>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 10:38 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Keyboard Substitute


> > On the machines I'm looking for (IPX's LX's etc) lack of the keyboard
> > sends the video output to the serial port. Now unless I carry a laptop.
> > which I can't generally do. Is there a way to get around this?
>
> you can specify input and output devices as obp envinronment variables.
> try setting input-device to ttya and output-device to screen from a serial
> terminal once and see what happens. once thet kernel loads, console
control
> is handled the ttymon daemon, so you probably won't have much luck.
>
> you can buy a sun keyboard from gstek.com or most other parts vendors.
>
> -josh
>
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