[SunHELP] Sun E450 serial console problem

[Mikhail Emelchenkov]

An output sample (power on, normal boot):

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Mikhail Emelchenkov :: Entrepreneur :: http://soaw.com

On Dec 20, 2013, at 1:25 AM, Fred Dikeman <Fred at workstation.net> wrote:

> Was there a video graphics card in the system at one time? The output maybe
> set to console and not to the serial port.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org] On
> Behalf Of Mikhail Emelchenkov
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 4:05 PM
> To: The SunHELP List
> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Sun E450 serial console problem
>
> I tried different speeds, nowhere get English characters. Is there any way
> to automate this testing, or flush speed to default 9200?
>
> Mikhail Emelchenkov
> http://soaw.com
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 20.12.2013, at 0:52, stephen price <sd_price at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> serial port probably fine - change your speed from 9600 to something
>> else - keep trying different speeds -
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From:
>> Mikhail Emelchenkov <iam at soaw.com>
>> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>> Sent: Thursday,
>> December 19, 2013 2:40 PM
>> Subject: [SunHELP] Sun E450 serial console problem Hello!
>>
>> Recently I have bought Sun E450 and it seems serial port not working:
>> 1. I tried to connect USB-to-Serial, and got some garbage output in
>> terminal, and this garbage are the same each time I power on the
>> machine or run test (right key state). 9600 8n1.
>> 2. I tried to connect real cable DB25-to-DB9, no output in terminal at
>> all.
>>
>> So I have a question: is there any way to fix the broken port? Are
>> there any other things I should try to get serial port working?
>>
>> Mikhail Emelchenkov :: Entrepreneur :: http://soaw.com
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