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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Unix 10.2 question Post 38726 by TioTony on Thursday 24th of July 2003 11:00:25 AM
Old 07-24-2003
Hi Lonnie,
It is good that you already have Reflections. I think you misunderstood what I was trying to convey to you.
On the back of the D class, there is a 9 pin connection labeled "Serial 1/Console" (I just looked). Since you dumb terminal style console is dead and you don't want to buy a new one, you can use a PC or Laptop as the console instead. Plug one end of a null modem cable into "Serial 1/Console" and the other end into a serial port on the PC or laptop. Then when you create your connection in Reflection, use COM1 instead of the network. This will give you access to the console directly, not a remote connection.
You may have another piece of hardware you can use instead. We use a Digi Portserver which allows us to connect all the serial outputs of our Unix boxes into a switch that we can access via the network.
Either way, the console is always available even if the box isn't on the network because you are connecting to the console serial port.
I hope this makes sense. There really is no other way out of it. You either need to purchase a new console or connect some other piece of hardware to the console serial port to do what you are asking.
Thanks,
Tony
 

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LEARN ABOUT OSF1

dc

dc(7)							 Miscellaneous Information Manual						     dc(7)

NAME

       dc - serial line/mouse/keyboard

SYNOPSIS

       controller   dc0   at ibus0   slot 0   vector dcintr

DESCRIPTION

       The  dc	serial	line controller provides DECstation 2100, DECstation 3100, DECstation 5000, and DECstation 5100 computer systems with key-
       board, mouse, and serial communications interfaces. The serial communications interfaces on the DECstation 2100 and DECstation 3100 provide
       partial	modem  control.  The  serial communications interfaces on the DECstation 5000 provide full modem control.  The device special file
       /dev/tty01 on a DECstation 5100 provides full modem control, while the remaining ports provide no modem control at all.	All serial  commu-
       nications interfaces operate at baud rates from B50 to B9600, excluding B200.

       The  dc	ports  are  used as follows: Usage Graphics device keyboard at 4800 BPS Mouse or tablet at 4800 BPS Communications port 1 (w/modem
       control)/local terminal Communications port 2 (w/modem control)/local terminal

       On all systems except the DECstation 5100, serial port 2 is used for the system console port in server (that is,  non-graphics)	configura-
       tions.  On DECstation 5100s, the serial port labeled 3 on the back of the system is always the system console port.  The serial system con-
       sole port always operates at 9600 BPS, 8-bits, no parity; modem control is not supported.

RESTRICTIONS

       Data communications equipment attached to the console serial port in server configurations must be set to 9600 BPS, 8-bits, no parity.  The
       scc driver enforces this restriction.

FILES

       console terminal local terminal local terminal local terminal (DECstation 5100 only)

RELATED INFORMATION

       console(7), devio(7), tty(7), MAKEDEV(8) delim off

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