[rescue] LX serial woes

[David Holland]

Can you put a head on the system, and run the OBP serial tests (test
ttya)? 

FWIW, the service manual is here: 

http://sunsolve.sun.com/data/801/801-2176/html/TOC.html

Perhaps its something funky with the dual/single serial port...  The fsm
has the pin out..

David

On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 22:18, Koyote wrote:
> Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > --- Koyote <koyote at koyote.cx> wrote:
> > > Okay, so I'm obviously missing something- I have 2 LX machines, and
> > > neither of them can I connect to with serial. I'm using my old
> > > jornada 720, but the same config and cable and etc. that I just
> > > reverified works fine on my utra1.  I know that there are some
> > > oddities involved with the a/b combined serial on the LX, but I'd
> > > thought that serial A was just bog standard and all the excess
> > > pinnage was devoted to serialB.
> > 
> > Electrically, everything will be as you expect, and since it works on
> > your Ultra 1, I think you already knew that...
> 
> yeah, the ultra1 is fine, but something amiss with the LXen.
> 
> > 
> > My issue was that the serial ports under Solaris 9 (and I have every
> > reason to believe earlier releases were similar) *initialize* the
> > serial ports, but don't enable them for use... Could this be your
> > problem?
> 
> I'm trying to load an OS :)  -so the problem is at the OBP level right
> now.
> 
> I'd blame it on the jornada and windows CE, except it works fine on the
> ultra1.
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