SS10 and Null Modem Cable Problem

2007-12-25 11:34:00

Sun-Managers,

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# THANK YOUs

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Thank you all for the replys. I would like to thank the following (in

no particular order):

Mike Salehi, Craig Whytock, Scott Kulp, JCJ6, Nabeel Ahmed, Sinha

Deepak, Dan Liebster, David Alford, David Evans, Douglas Lee, Darren

Dunham, Barry Gamblin, Buddy Lumpkin, Mark Luntzel, Steve Hastings, and

anyone else I missed....

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# SOLUTION

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Summary of most respones,

Apparently, my settings seem to be right. Although I tried almost all

the possible combination of different settings (baud rate, parity, flow

control, etc....), nothing seems to work. I will have to bring this

sucka to work and attach a sun monitor to it to check it out. As far as

the cable being null cable, it is because I checked it with an eletrical

meter and pins 2 and 3 are reversed, as they should be.

It is probably something to do with the fact that the serial port on the

SS10 is labeled A/B (there is only one physical DB-25 connector labeled

A/B). I will have to see that the output is actually going out to

ttya. I will update later.

Thanks!

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# ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

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Hi!

I am new to the sun world, and thus I got myself a used ss10. I have no

monitor for it, nor a keyboard or a mouse. I am trying to connect my nt

box to it through a null modem cable. I plug the 25-pin end into the

ss10, and the db-9 end into the nt box, on COM1. Then I use SecureCRT

to connect to COM1 (I also tried Hyperterminal). The following are the

settings for COM1:

Baud: 9600

Data Bits: 8

Parity: None

Stop Bits: 1

Flow Control: RTS/CTS (default value)

When I try to connect, it seems to connect but doesn't display anything

in the window. I have tried different combinations of those paramaters,

but obviously I have not gotten it yet. Would anyone please assist me

in this (probably) simple problem. I would greatly appreciate it. And

of course I will summarize, with the Original Question!

What am I doing wrong?

--Konstantin

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