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Operating Systems Solaris Connect using ALOM to Sun Fire V210 Post 302807213 by danijeljames on Tuesday 14th of May 2013 10:17:01 AM
Old 05-14-2013
Sun Still Confused?

OK, so I'm sorry for firing up this thread again but I'm confused to all hell.

Since I thought this was going to be a walk in the park, I went and also bought a Sun Nextra X1 while I was waiting for my 2 cables to arrive.

I bought the CISCO cable and a Serial-to-USB adapter cable and have them connected like so:
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I plug the RJ-45 of the CISCO cable into the Serial MGT port on my Sun V210.

This is the picture of the port in question:
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I also plugged the RJ-45 into the A LOM and the B SERIAL ports on the back of my Nextra X1.

Here is the images of those too:
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I then use CoolTerm as I was instructed up above to use it to connect to my servers.

This is where I get stuck? I'm only presented with 2 options to connect to a device using CoolTerm as pictured here:
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Can someone please point me, with instructions in the right direction of what to do? I'm really stuck now and my only other option is to pay someone to do this for me, but they would require the servers to be on-site and they won't explain to me what they did. I want to understand how this works, and how I do all this.

I plugged the USB cable into the Mac, and it just didn't give me an option to connect to the USB port in CoolTerm. I listed out my /dev directory and it shows up all these connections but I don't know which one I should use.

Can I please get a little bit more information to help me out here. I really want to get these servers up and running so I can start to learn a bit more. Smilie

My only other option that I can see at this point is to buy an old computer and spend more money and get Windows XP on it and use the CISCO cable with that and the HyperTerminal app. I don't really want to go down that path. I want to get these two up and running. I want to install Solaris on one, and OpenBSD on the other.

Thank you in advance!
 

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VILISTEXTUM(1)						      General Commands Manual						    VILISTEXTUM(1)

NAME
vilistextum - html to ascii converter SYNOPSIS
vilistextum [OPTIONS] [inputfile |-] [outputfile | -] DESCRIPTION
vilistextum is a html to ascii converter specifically programmed to get the best out of incorrect html. OPTIONS
inputfile,- resp. outputfile,- replace inputfile with '-' for reading from standard input, likewise outputfile with '-' for writing to standard output. -a, --no-alt don't output anything for IMG tags even if they have an ALT attribute. Implies --no-image. -c, --convert-tags some tags will be converted to special characters. -e, --errorlevel NUMBER increase level of verbosity for error messages (0: No error messages). -i, --defimage STRING IMG tags without alt attribute are output as [STRING]. -l, --links numbers the links in the document and creates footnotes of each link at the end of the file. -k, --links-inline print the links directly after the html tag. -m, --dont-convert-characters don't convert the entities from windows1252 (&#128;-&#159; and their proper entity names) -n, --no-image don't output [Image] for IMG tags that have no ALT attribute. -p, --palm output text more suitable for reading on a PDA. -r, --remove-empty-alt if there is an empty ALT attribute in a IMG tag (eg <IMG href="..." alt="">), don't output '[]'. -s, --shrink-lines [NUMBER] if there are more than NUMBER empty lines, output only NUMBER. Default: 1. -t, --no-title don't output title. -w, --width NUMBER maximum line width. -h, --help display this help and exit -v, --version output version information and exit MULTIBYTE OPTIONS (Only available if compiled with multibyte support) -u, --output-utf-8 instead of the character set of the html document, everything will be output as utf-8. -x, --translit use the //TRANSLIT feature of libiconv. Consult the iconv manual for details. -y, --charset CHARSET if the HTML document doesn't provide a character set in the meta tags, use CHARSET. LIMITATIONS
The rendering of tables is not very good. The handling of OL is incomplete. The program treats it as UL and more than 10 nested lists confuse it. Text is never justified. REPORTING BUGS
Please report bugs to <bhaak@gmx.net>. AUTHOR
Vilistextum was written by Patric Mueller <bhaak@gmx.net> and may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for this program. SEE ALSO
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