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?
06-13-2011
