SUMMARY Re: quick console question (I hope)

From: Adam and Christine Levin <levins_at_westnet.com>
Date: Fri Jan 10 2003 - 12:57:55 EST
Thanks to:
Bill Voight <BVOIGHT@fcc.gov>
Hendrik Visage <hvisage@is.co.za>
Timothy Lorenc <tim@load.com>
Doug Winter <dwinter@icpeurope.net>
Carl Schelin <cschelin@hq.nasa.gov>
Beat Jucker <Beat.Jucker@glue.ch>

Unfortunately, while I got a lot of great suggestions, none of them
worked.

The suggestions were:
Halt from the OS prompt.
Check your console connectors and Cisco settings.
Try ~# instead if you're using tip.
Check the key switch position on the Sun.
Try ctrl-alt-^.

However, I believe I've found the problem.  The Auspex ships with a PC
keyboard, mouse and monitor.  Since it's a PC keyboard and not a Sun
keyboard, it appears that Auspex changes the abort_enable setting in
/etc/system:
set abort_enable=2

This should enable ctrl-brk on the PC keyboard to work (and it does).
However, I believe this changes the stop-A behavior.  I have commented out
that line, and will reboot at my earliest convenience.  That should solve
the problem.

Again, thanks, all.

-Adam

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Adam and Christine Levin wrote:
>
> We've got an Auspex NFS box connected to a Cisco router for console.  The
> Auspex is running this:
> SPARCengine(tm)Ultra CP 1400 (UltraSPARC-IIi 303MHz), No Keyboard
> OpenBoot 3.10.9 ME, 576 MB memory installed, Serial #9567860.
> Ethernet address 8:0:20:91:fe:74, Host ID: 8091fe74.
>
> Solaris version on it is
> SunOS Release 5.6 Version Generic_105181-26 [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]
>
> I telnet into the router and connect.  Normally, on other Suns, I can do a
> ctrl-] in the telnet session and "send brk" to get to the OK prompt.  I
> can't on this machine, and it'd be really handy to be able to do that.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Will summarize.
>
> Thanks,
> -Adam
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