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Special Forums Hardware Need Help connecting to sunfire v240 Post 302428296 by QuadRunner750 on Wednesday 9th of June 2010 11:55:26 AM
Old 06-09-2010
Need Help connecting to sunfire v240

I recently acquired a sunfire v240 and I'm trying to get into it so I can install linux on it. Right now I'm still trying to get a monitor connected so I can do this.

I've tried connecting to it with a crossover cable to my laptop (vista and linux equipped). I was able to get a connection through one of the com ports with putty under windows, but when the window popped up it was just black with no text and anything that I typed in on the laptop didn't do anything.

I also tried connecting via lan with both ethernet cables and a db9 to rj45 connection-no dice. I don't know the machines ip because I got it used and I know basically nothing about the sun machines or the solaris OS that they use. Any help is appreciated.

Thank you.
 

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pilot-install-todos(1)						    PILOT-LINK						    pilot-install-todos(1)

NAME
pilot-install-todos - Updates the Palm ToDo list with entries from a local file. SECTION
pilot-link: Userland conduits SYNOPSIS
pilot-install-todos [-p|--port <port>] [--version] [-?|--help] [--usage] [-q|--quiet] [-f|--filename STRING] DESCRIPTION
pilot-install-todos allows the user to update the Palm ToDo list with entries from a local file. The format of this file is a simple line-by-line ToDo task entry. For each new line in the local file, a new task is created in the ToDo database on the Palm. OPTIONS
pilot-install-todos options -f, --filename filename A local filename containing the ToDo entry text. Conduit Options -p, --port <port> Use device file <port> to communicate with the Palm handheld. If this is not specified, pilot-install-todos will look for the $PILOTPORT environment variable. If neither are found or supplied, pilot-install-todos will print the usage information. -q, --quiet Suppress 'Hit HotSync button' message -v, --version Display version of pilot-install-todo and exit without connecting. Help Options -h, --help Display the help synopsis for pilot-install-todos and exit without connecting. --usage Display a brief usage message and exit without connecting. USAGE
The program will connect to a target Palm handheld, and creates the ToDo entry to the Palm ToDo application, using the specified file. EXAMPLE
-p /dev/pilot -f $HOME/MyTodoList.txt AUTHOR
pilot-install-todo was originally written by Martin Fick, based on code in pilot-install-todos by Robert A. Kaplan. This manual page was written by Neil Williams <linux@codehelp.co.uk> REPORTING BUGS
We have an online bug tracker. Using this is the only way to ensure that your bugs are recorded and that we can track them until they are resolved or closed. Reporting bugs via email, while easy, is not very useful in terms of accountability. Please point your browser to http://bugs.pilot-link.org: http://bugs.pilot-link.org and report your bugs and issues there. COPYRIGHT
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER- CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. SEE ALSO
pilot-install-todo(1), pilot-link(7). 0.12.5 Copyright 1996-2007 FSF pilot-install-todos(1)
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