Re: A180C

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:03:36 +0200, Jochen Kunz
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 04:03:29PM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> 
> > > Give me your A180C and I will boot NetBSD on it. ;-)
> > I'm not at liberty to give it away, 
> I thought that, but that is no problem.
> 
> > but if I can get a kernel booted
> > on it sometime I may be able to get you access.
> Once the PCI code works it may be nice if you boot a kernel and send me
> a log of the boot messages.
> 
> > I thought there might be some way to netboot it, but I'm not sure how
> > the firmware deals with that. I'll have to read up on it.
> It is quite simple. Interrupt the boot process so that you get to the
> firmware prompt and type "boot lan<RETURN>". The machine now broadcasts
> a BOOTP/DHCP querry to the LAN... Once the DHCP is done it loads a
> LIF kernel image via tftp and later it mounts its / via NFS. Nothing
> special.

Any recommendations on getting Hyperterminal working with the A180C
(Ugh, I know, Windows, but this is work.)? I can't get it to see the
console, and nothing is plugged into the web console. I'm a noob with
serial consoles though...

Andy