Re: OpenBSD Blade 100, SATA, sili(4), and 'break' or 'STOP-A' from Linux or OS X

On 6/21/10, der Mouse <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Has anyone a Linux or Mac OS X terminal emulator hint, tip, trick,
>> that might help me with sending the ever-sought 'STOP-A'?
>
> Serial console?
>
> I don't know the Blade 100.  Indeed, I have fairly little experience
> with any post-Sbus Sun.  But on the ones I have used, the
> serial-console analog of L1-A is a break condition.  How you send this
> depends on your serial comm program.  (This depends on your terminal
> emulator only if (a) the two are rolled into one or (b) the comm
> program wants a particularly outré keystroke of input.)

In the Linux world, 'minicom' is common (it's been around for a long
time).  To send a break with minicom, type CTRL-A L.

-ethan