My original request :
>
>I've just taken delivery of a SparcServer 2. It's delivered with a Wyse 50
>terminal for use as it's console. I've hooked it upto ttya, set the eeprom
>input and output devices to ttya, started a getty on it, but cannot
>seem to get the keyboard to accept any input. Output from console messages,
>etc. work just fine, just no input.
>
>Could anyone please tell me what the correct terminal and eeprom setup to
>make it work are? Here are my current settings :
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Thanks to the following people who all sent useful information. By trying a
combination of all the suggestions I recieved, I arrived at the following
settings.
From: gaby@rsbs13.anu.edu.au (Gaby Hoffmann)
From: Calum Mackay <calum@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk>
From: Wilson N G <noel@essex.ac.uk>
From: matt@wbst845e.xerox.com (Matt Goheen)
From: oneel@arupa.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bruce Oneel )
From: amick@erim.org (Richard Amick)
From: kalli!kevin@fourx.aus.sun.com (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
From: danny@ews7.dseg.ti.com
From: phil@cgrg.ohio-state.edu (Phil Ritzenthaler)
From: ept@eptsun1.ctd.ornl.gov (E P Tinnel)
From: Perry_Hutchison.Portland@xerox.com
From: katkam@fuwutai.att.com
From: trdlnk!mike@uunet.uu.net (Michael Sullivan)
From: kalli!glenn@fourx.aus.sun.com (Glenn Satchell)
From: geoff@fulcrum.oz.au (Geoff Halprin)
EEPROM settings :
name=options
selftest-#megs=1
oem-logo=
oem-logo?=false
oem-banner=
oem-banner?=false
output-device=ttya
input-device=ttya
sbus-probe-list=0123
keyboard-click?=false
keymap=
ttyb-rts-dtr-off=false
ttyb-ignore-cd=true
ttya-rts-dtr-off=true
ttya-ignore-cd=true
ttyb-mode=9600,8,n,1,-
ttya-mode=9600,8,n,1,-
fcode-debug?=false
diag-file=
diag-device=net
boot-file=
boot-device=disk
auto-boot?=true
watchdog-reboot?=false
local-mac-address?=false
use-nvramrc?=false
nvramrc=
screen-#columns=80
screen-#rows=24
sunmon-compat?=true
security-mode=none
security-password=
security-#badlogins=0
scsi-initiator-id=7
hardware-revision=
last-hardware-update=
testarea=85
mfg-switch?=false
diag-switch?=false
Relevant Terminal settings :
Personality VT100
Enhance Mode ON
Baud 9600
Data/Parity 8/none
Stop Bit 1
RCV Handshake NONE
XMIT Handshake NONE
Comm FDX
Mathew Lim, Unix Systems Programmer, ANU Supercomputer Facility,
Australian National University, GPO Box 4, Canberra City, ACT, Australia 2601.
Telephone : +61 6 249 2750 |
Fax : +61 6 247 3425 | E-Mail : M.Lim@anu.edu.au
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