[SunHELP] Setting up v480 term console.

Sheldon T. Hall shel at tandem.artell.net
Wed Sep 14 12:03:09 CDT 2005


viet nguyen says ...
>  
> We just bought sunfire v480 , I am trying to get to OK prompt, 
> connected to RJ45 cable. I can see the system boot up and 
> boot screens were displayed.I can not  Ctrl+Pause.break to 
> get to  OK prompt , but nothing shows up and it just sits 
> there. Can't input anything. Only thing I'm able to do is a 
> manual reset. 

Make sure your terminal, or terminal emulator, is set to the correct
handshaking setting.  Some, if not most, terminals and emulators default to
hardware handshaking (sometimes called RTS/CTS), and you may find that
turning that off allows you to talk to the Sun. 

-Shel



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