Re: Trouble netbooting MVME167B

Hi !

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Henning Kiel wrote:
> > Can you post the complete kernel boot messages, plus the registers and
> > stack trace please.
>
> Difficult. I'm using a VT100 device here. I tried to connect with my
> Linux-PC, but didn't succeed. I have 9-pin Nullmodem cable (wires 2-3 and
> 3-2, and gnd (5 or so...) connected).
> With "cat /dev/ttyS0" I don't get the MVME's output (I set the baudrate to
> 9600 and 8N1 no handshake). Also with a Kermit program i cannot connect.
> Am I doing something wrong?

cat sucks. use "cu -l /dev/ttyS0" or something. Maybe you have to configure
some uucp stuff, see /etc/uucp. (Stopped using Linux some years ago :)

Or just use minicom. Simple and powerful.

...Michael

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