[SunHELP] Sparc5

[Dale Ghent]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Chris Barnes wrote:

| Do you know anything about the 2 sets of jumpers on the system board that
| determine weather the serial ports are rs-232 or rs-432? I read in the
| Sparc5 installation manual that if I'm using x.25 in Europe then I need to
| change the those two jumpers which will change the serial ports from rs-432
| to rs-232...
| I only ask because I have actually tried using my laptop with the null modem
| in ttya but I don't get anything in my terminal program. I know the null
| modem works, I tested it between two other machines, then between my laptop
| and another machine. So this makes me think that he serial ports on the
| sparc 5 are set incorrectly.

Should be set to RS-232 for the most compatability.

Run 'eeprom | grep tty' from a shell prompt and see if the serial ports on
the sparc5 are indeed set to 9600/8/n/1

/dale