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Operating Systems Solaris connecting laptop to V240 serial port Post 302152361 by bluridge on Wednesday 19th of December 2007 04:56:34 PM
Old 12-19-2007
connecting laptop to V240 serial port

Well...I hope I am in the right forum to post this question. Here is what I am trying to do.

I have a laptop (Dell I believe) running Windows. I am trying to connect this laptop to a V240 serial port (the port with l0l0l). Here lies the problem, I am not sure if I have the correct cable. I do not have a cable that connects to the serial port and at times I think I do but nothing happens.

However, when someone tries to connect a RJ-45 I believe to the serial management port, I get something coming up on the hyperterminal screen and this is the POST/debugging and it keeps going over and over.

I am trying to find the right cable. Previous guy said he bought a cable to connect from the laptop tp the V240 serial port. He has left and I forgot what cable he had. After poking around on the internet and looking at SUN's docs, it allears I need a cable with DB-9 (female) to connect to the V240 serial port (the l0l0l port), but do I get the USB or the RJ-45 for the laptop?

I have looked in Office Depot and Best Buy and Radio Shack, and they seem to only have the DB-9 (male) USB cable. Do they make the cable I need in DB-9 (female) with RJ-45?

Then...once this cable is set up , I can look at the system and try to get to the >ok prompt. Right now, the hyperterminal is showing:

probing system device
probing memory
probing I/O buses
and repeating over and over.

Since the hyperterminal is showing this, I guess that means my connection from laptop to v240 is correct? Note that the way it is set up now, the cable is going to the serial management port and I always thought it should go to the serial (DB-9) port?

Help clarify this for me...seems a bit confusing to me. Eventually we want to load a Solaris OS on the vt240 so my guess is we need to be connected to the serial port (DB-9)...if so what cable do I need? BTW, we have one cable that can plug into the serial port (its 9 pin) but this cable produces nothing on the screen???

TIA...
 

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LM-PROFILER.CONF(8)					      System Manager's Manual					       LM-PROFILER.CONF(8)

NAME
/etc/laptop-mode/lm-profiler.conf - Configuration file for lm-profiler, a profiler for laptop-mode-tools. DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the options that can be set in the /etc/laptop-mode/lm-profiler.conf configuration file. For a description of what lm-profiler does, see the lm-profiler(8) manpage. SETTINGS
The syntax of options is OPTION=value. The following settings are available in lm-profiler.conf: VERBOSE_OUTPUT Set this to 1 if you want to see a lot of output when you run lm-profiler, and 0 if you don't want this. Useful for debugging purposes. (Currently does nothing.) PROFILE_RUN_LENGTH The length of a profiling run, in seconds. This should be a while, so that lm-profiler can gather enough information. The default is 10 minutes (600 seconds). ACTIVITY_INTERVAL_MIN ACTIVITY_INTERVAL_MAX The behaviour that you want to avoid when you have your hard drive spun down, is disk accesses that are spread out over time, because your hard drive will have to spin up for each access. lm-profiler detects when applications perform disk accesses that are at least some time apart (otherwise they can be considered part of the same access) but not TOO far apart (otherwise they are no problem). These settings configure what lm-profiler considers "at least some time apart" and "too far apart", respectively, in seconds. RECOMMEND_DEFAULT_SERVICES DEFAULT_SERVICES If RECOMMEND_DEFAULT_SERVICES is set to 1 (enabled), then lm-profiler will always suggest turning off the services listed in DEFAULT_SERVICES (separated by spaces). IGNORE_PROGRAMS Programs listed in this option, separated by spaces, will be ignored for disk activity profiling. The default settings (which can be referenced as $DEF_IGNORE_PROGRAMS) include common utility programs and all programs used by lm-profiler itself. RECOMMEND_NETWORK_SERVICES When this option is enabled (value 1), lm-profiler will detect any services that are listening on network ports, and it will sug- gest that you disable them. IGNORE_NETWORK_SERVICES Services listed in this configuration option (separated by spaces) are not suggested as a network service by lm-profiler. The default values can be accessed as $DEF_IGNORE_NETWORK_SERVICES. SEE ALSO
lm-profiler(8). laptop_mode(8). laptop-mode.conf(8). AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Bart Samwel (bart@samwel.tk). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. LM-PROFILER.CONF(8)
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