Solaris

I'm new in Sun, i just recieved a sun v100 server, i already connected the server to a workstation (using the hyperterminal tool) and it seemmed to be fine... however when the LOM> prompt appears and i try to introduce various commands but it does nothing.

LOMlite starting up.

CPU type: H8/3437S, mode 3
Ram-test: 2048 bytes OK
Initialising i2c bus: OK
Searching for EEPROMs: 50(cfg)
I2c eeprom @50: OK
i2c bus speed code 01... OK
Probing for lm80s: none
Probing for lm75s: 48
Initialising lm75 @48: OK
System functions: PSUs fans breakers rails gpio temps host CLI ebus clock

LOMlite console
lom>
LOM event: +0h0m0s LOM booted
lom>poweron

(it does nothing...)

also when i turn the server on with the on/standby switch it also seems to be starting fine, but again when the ok prompt is displayed i try to execute commands and it does again nothing.

Firmware CORE Sun Microsystems, Inc.
@(#) core 1.0.18 2002/05/23 18:22
Software Power ON
Verifying NVRAM...Done
Bootmode is 0
MCR0 = 57b2ce06
MCR1 = 80008000
MCR2 = cff0ffff
MCR3 = b00003ff
Ecache Size = 512 KB
Clearing E$ Tags Done
Clearing I/D TLBs Done
Probing memory
Done
MEMBASE=0xc0000000
MEMSIZE=0x20000000
Clearing memory...Done
Turning ON MMUs Done
Copy ROM to RAM (154720 bytes) Done
Orig PC=0x1fff0007edc New PC=0xf0f07f34
Processor Speed=648MHz
Looking for Dropin FVM ... found
Decompressing Client Done
Transferring control to Client...
Reset Control: BXIR:0 BPOR:0 SXIR:0 SPOR:1 POR:0
Probing upa at 1f,0 pci
Probing upa at 0,0 SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIe (512 Kb)
Loading Support Packages: kbd-translator
Loading onboard drivers:
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 7 isa dma rtc power SUNW,lomh serial serial
flashprom
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 3 pmu i2c temperature dimm dimm dimm dimm
i2c-nvram idprom motherboard-fru ppm beep fan-control
lomp
Probing Memory Bank #0 512 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #1 512 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #2 512 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #3 512 Megabytes
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 7
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 3
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device c ethernet
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 5 ethernet
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device a usb
Probing /pci@1f,0 Device d ide disk cdrom
todm5819 Sun Fire V100 (UltraSPARC-IIe 648MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 4.0, 2048 MB memory installed, Serial #53320536.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:2d:9b:58, Host ID: 832d9b58.



Environment monitoring: disabled

ok boot

(again... did nothing)


please advice.

thanks in advance.

First thing I'd check is the hyper terminal's settings, paticularly make sure that hardware flow control is set to none.

the flow control that i have configured in the hyperterminal was Xon/Xoff, I changed it as you suggested but the lom kept doing nothing...

What are the settings in your hyper terminal?

Its connected via COM1 with the following connection settings:

Bits per second: 9600
data bits: 8
Parity: none
stop bits: 1
Flow control : none

The terminal settings are the following:

Function, arrow and, ctrl keys act as: terminal keys
backspace key sends: ctrl+H
emulation: auto detect
Telnet terminal id: ANSI

ASCII setup menu:

Send line ends with line feeds: on
echo typed characters locally: on
Wrap lines that exceed terminal width: on

i 've already tried changing the emulation to a VT100 but i've got the same result

And what cable are yoiu using to connect to the consle port?A regular CAt-5? If you are, that's robably what's causing it. Do yoiu have one of those flat cables with the RJ-45 ends?
I'm sorry I cannot give you a better answer, but the issue you are having is 99.99% of the time the rsult of a mis-configured terminal emulator and/or having the wrong cable/adaptor pin-out. I've been cariying a couple cables with me for a few years now, these come with Fujitsu PrimePower servers, and are specially amde for console connections; I keep them because I know conencting to serial ports can be a problem, as you are experiencing.

Actually you were right, i've changed the cable (well, i changed it two times) and the console start responding.

thnks