[rescue] Using old MC5 terminal on Sun Fire V210

[Mike Hebel]

On Oct 11, 2006, at 9:27 AM, Andrew Weiss wrote:

> On Oct 11, 2006, at 10:17 AM, William Enestvedt wrote:
>
>>
>>    The banner admits that I have a keyboard installed, which it
>> then ignores.
>> The keyboard is in a handy-dandy rack-mount LCD/KVM/keyboard unit
>> that works
>> so well once the server actually boots.
>>
>>    I have a feeling I'm getting frustrated and not thinking clearly
>> here.
>> Time for a walk! :7)
>
> Don't you need to pull the keyboard off and use only the Terminal?
>
> I've always considered the built-in keyboard port only for use if you
> are using a frame-buffer.  I think the serial terminal ignores input
> if a keyboard is detected.

That is it's default response yes.  It can be set to do otherwise but 
you have to specifically set the output variables in the NVRAM or it 
won't work.

Even then I don't know if there'll be a getty(ish) problem with 
whatever OS is being loaded.

Mike Hebel
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