I am having trouble with a device connected through a serial port on my sun workstation ( I am running solaris 7).

The seriel device works on an identical workstation running the same o/s version but when I move it to the initial workstation it doesn't work. I am using an rs232 serial cable and am wondering what could be causing the problem. Is it possible that the transmit revieve and ground pins are configurable on the seriel port through the o/s and that they have been altered somehow. If so is there a way to reset them.

Any thoughts ?

Start admintool on both systems and compare the settings of the serial ports (be sure to click on the Expert button of detail). You can change the settings on the serial port for the 'broken' system,

You get to the ports screen via the browse column when admintool comes up.