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PPPD on ttya with serial console...?
Post 302530298 by neutronscott on Monday 13th of June 2011 12:50:28 PM
06-13-2011
PPPD on ttya with serial console...?
Hi. I am very very new to Solaris. I found an abandoned Sun Blade 150. I created a 3-wire null modem cable, connected it to an abandoned laptop and successfully installed Solaris 10 using the serial port. This laptop doesn't have ethernet. So I want to establish a PPP connection.
Part of the problem is Windows 2000 as the client I'm sure, but I tried a simple test along the lines of:
pppd /dev/ttya 9600 192.168.1.2:192.168.1.3 local nocrtscts noauth connect "chat 'CLIENT CLIENTSERVER\c'"
Promptly after issuing the command a shell prompt "#" is shown again, but 'chat' seems to have control. After starting Windows 2000's "Direct Connection" (and it fails), returning to the terminal eventually shows "LENLETCINLE: not found" such that probably it is sending "CLIENT" a few times and it eventually gets there to the shell after chat times out..
I think the issue is that /dev/console is also on the serial port.. It's currently the only way I can access the machine so I don't really want to replace it. Also, it's a 3-wire serial cable, but at 9600 baud I don't think flow control would be the issue. We're low on pins and I didn't want to waste them for my games. heh. I have changed the modem settings on the Windows 2000 client to 9600 no flow as well.
Any pointers on how to proceed?
Part of the problem is Windows 2000 as the client I'm sure, but I tried a simple test along the lines of:
pppd /dev/ttya 9600 192.168.1.2:192.168.1.3 local nocrtscts noauth connect "chat 'CLIENT CLIENTSERVER\c'"
Promptly after issuing the command a shell prompt "#" is shown again, but 'chat' seems to have control. After starting Windows 2000's "Direct Connection" (and it fails), returning to the terminal eventually shows "LENLETCINLE: not found" such that probably it is sending "CLIENT" a few times and it eventually gets there to the shell after chat times out..
I think the issue is that /dev/console is also on the serial port.. It's currently the only way I can access the machine so I don't really want to replace it. Also, it's a 3-wire serial cable, but at 9600 baud I don't think flow control would be the issue. We're low on pins and I didn't want to waste them for my games. heh. I have changed the modem settings on the Windows 2000 client to 9600 no flow as well.
Any pointers on how to proceed?
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dc(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual dc(4) Name dc - serial line/mouse/keyboard Syntax device dc0 at ibus? vector dcintr Description The serial line controller provides four ports, with modem control on two of the ports. The DECstation 3100 and DECstation 2100 only pro- vide partial modem control. The DECstation 5000 provides full modem control. The ports are used as follows: Port Usage 0 Graphics device keyboard at 4800 BPS 1 Mouse or tablet at 4800 BPS 2 Communications port 1 (w/modem control)/local terminal 3 Communications port 2 (w/modem control)/local terminal Each communication port from the serial line controller behaves as described in and can be set to run at any of 16 speeds. For the encod- ing, see When a graphics device is not being used as the system console, communications port 2 becomes the system console. In this configuration, the port can only be used at 9600 BPS and no modem control is supported. The serial line driver operates in interrupt-per-character mode (all pending characters are flushed from the silo on each interrupt). Restrictions Speed must be set to 9600 BPS on the console port and 4800 BPS on ports used by graphics devices. The serial line driver enforces this restriction; that is, changing speeds with the command may not always work on these ports. Files console terminal local terminal local terminal See Also console(4), devio(4), tty(4), ttys(5), MAKEDEV(8) RISC dc(4)