I have used a Sun Blade-150 serial console and all I connect are pins 2, 3, 1 and 7: Serial Port & Cable Pinouts SunHELP
Did you know you can use the serial port for input and the monitor for output (and vice versa)?
The output-device setting can be set to include the resolution and refresh rate of your monitor so that you see the messages during power up and before Solaris takes over, e.g.:
in this case 1024 pixels by 768 pixels at 60Hz.
I have seen folk confused by having two VGA connectors because a framebuffer card had been added in and they had the monitor plugged into the wrong one. To make the alternative framebuffer card may require amending of the pci-probe-list: 9. Multiple Monitors on a System (Solaris Handbook for Sun Frame Buffers) - Sun Microsystems
I'm fairly sure a PC USB mouse will work, it might be a bit fast or slow, a normal PC USB keyboard I think will work but will lack the power, front, back, stop, etc. keys.
On the memory front a Sun Blade-150 requires error correction SDRAM (ECC SDRAM).
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i have a problem with my sunblade100. when i switch on, no display comes but if i ping from a remote machine its pinging,but iam not able to telent to that sun server,what can be the problem,how can i sort ot this issue
2 thing in usb iam not able to use STOP N (to clear the... (3 Replies)
I have tried to install the Debian distribution for SPARC processor, but is a pian in the neck trying to boot from cdrom or floppy.
Please can somebody to help me to know the easiest way to boot and install Debian on a SUNBLADE 100 system? or wich is the best way to installed on this system, I... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I am a newbies here,
Have question regards large hard disk install in SunBlade system.
Can SunBlade 150 support 2 x 160GB (internal IDE) ?
Want to make sure before buy the hard disks.
Anyone had experiences configure large hard disk in SunBlade 150 before ?
In the SunBlade 150... (2 Replies)
Hi guys,
I have a SunBlade 2000 that I am trying to configure. It has been configured previously with an IP address, hostname, DNS and so forth. I want to configure it with a new IP address. How can I achieve this? It has been one of the most difficult tasks for me as I am not really... (6 Replies)
Hi everyone this is my first post
I have used linux a couple of times and was impressed, so i bought an old sunblade 1000, just to learn something new.
I cannot get the thing to work! I have tried to install solaris 10 and several types of linux. I am beginning to wonder if i was sold a... (3 Replies)
Greetings,
I was in the mood of upgrading my sunblade100 in my bedroom, since I recuperated some RAM from intel servers, and found myself with what seems to not work (I was hoping to pass from 256Mb to 2GB... and then upgrading to solaris 10...)
after this failure I tried with just one 512 MB,... (2 Replies)
Good Morning,
I took a mirror drive from one Solaris 9 machine and used it to set up another. After syncing another mirror on the second machine I restarted but I don't get a login screen.
I see a message:The X-server cannot be started on display :0
Also during startup I see:... (8 Replies)
Good Afternoon,
I'm setting up a SunBlade 2500 using ufsrestoreand have gotten to the point where I have restored the root and usr partitions. However, the machine keeps rebooting, never really coming up. Looking at vfstab, it looks pretty empty- shouldn't I see entries like... (22 Replies)
In bash, you can do something like this:
#!/bin/bash
echo -n "What is your name? " > /dev/tty
read thename < /dev/tty
How can I do the same in python?
I have a python script that has the following content:
#!/usr/bin/python2.7
import getpass
import sys
import telnetlib
import... (2 Replies)
Hi.
I have a Microsystems SunBlade 150
shell# cat /etc/release
Solaris 8 2/02 s28s_u7wos_08a SPARC
shell# uname -a
SunOS HOSTNAME 5.8 Generic_108528-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100
shell# prtconf -F
/pci@1f,0/SUNW,m64B@13:m640
When I join to the only account the server try to... (5 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
port_names
ports(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual ports(7)NAME
ports, port_names - Device (tty and lp) names for serial and parallel ports
SYNOPSIS
Default Serial Ports:
/dev/tty00
/dev/tty01 (not present on a single-port system)
Parallel Port:
/dev/lp0
DESCRIPTION
AlphaStation and AlphaServer systems provide one or two 9-pin serial communication ports. These ports are usually labelled 1 (COMM1) and 2
(COMM2), but they may be identified by different icons. Using the appropriate serial cable and terminator, you can connect a serial
printer, external modem, or character-cell terminal to a serial port. Most AlphaStation and AlphaServer systems also provide one parallel
port, for use with a parallel printer.
When you add a device to your system, the installation documentation may instruct you to map the device pathname to the port. These
devices are located in the /dev directory.
For serial-line ports, the two default device pathnames are: This pathname always maps to 1, COMM1, the lowest port number, an icon for a
terminal console, or the only serial port (on a single-port system). This pathname always maps to 2, COMM2, the next numbered port, or (if
one serial port is labeled with an icon for a terminal console) the remaining serial port.
If your system hardware has been extended to include additional serial ports, the pathnames /dev/tty02, /dev/tty03, and so forth, may also
be available to you. However, most systems have only /dev/tty00 and /dev/tty01 as the device pathnames for serial ports.
The one parallel port on an AlphaStation or AlphaServer may be labeled with the word printer or a printer icon. On some systems, the paral-
lel port may not be labeled. The device pathname for the parallel port is /dev/lp0. Currently, Tru64 UNIX does not fully support parallel
printers, so fewer devices are connected to this port as compared to serial ports.
If you are connecting a terminal console to your system, it must be connected to the serial port mapped to /dev/tty00. For other serial
devices, it does not matter which of the serial ports you choose for the connection. For example, suppose you are setting up a system that
has two serial ports, labeled 1 and 2. You intend to use a serial-line terminal rather than a workstation monitor as the system console and
also want to connect a serial-line printer to the system. In this case, you must connect the terminal to the port labeled 1 (with the
device pathname /dev/tty00). Therefore, you must connect the printer to the remaining port labeled 2 (with the device pathname /dev/tty01).
If, for the same type of system, you intend to use a workstation monitor as the system console, it does not matter which serial port you
use for a serial-line printer or modem. In other words, you can connect the printer to either port 1 (with pathname /dev/tty00) or port 2
(with pathname /dev/tty01). When prompted to enter a /dev/tty** pathname by the lprsetup script or the Print configuration tool in the CDE
Application Manager, you would specify /dev/tty00 if you connected the printer to port 1 or /dev/tty01 if you connected the printer to port
2.
See the System Administration manual for more information on setting up consoles (including remote consoles) and printers. See the
modem(7) reference page for more information on setting up modems.
SEE ALSO
Commands: lprsetup(8)
Devices: ace(7), modem(7)
System Administration delim off
ports(7)