SUMMARY: Console Card in a 280?

In a sense,  BINGO.  It appears that someone had used my cable and
pulled out 1 pin.  I could get console text to my screen but nothing
from my keyboard would go to the console.  I changed cables and got a
good connection.  Over lunch took my cable adapter apart and found the
problem.



Thus spake Matt D. Harris (mdh@mdh.si.edu):

> Use a cat5 cable with the little Silver/Chrome DB25/RJ45 adapter that
> came with the 280R to console it.  I'm using that consoled directly to a
> Netra T1 (which has RJ45 serial ports) so console mine - I had the same
> issue you're having, actually.  Also, make sure there aren't any
> keyboards or such plugged in.  the OpenBoot input-device and
> output-device variables must be set to 'ttya', but I'm thinking your
> issue is a pin-out issue, not a software issue, as the pinouts for
> consoles have been a repeated thorn in my side for Sun gear.  Hope I've
> been even a little helpful!  :-)
> 
> "Robert L. Harris" wrote:
> > 
> > The problem is I can't get into the machine.  Console on TTYA won't take
> > input and the RSC has a password on it.
> > 
> > Thus spake Matt D. Harris (mdh@mdh.si.edu):
> > 
> > > The RSC board is something entirely different and freakish.  Once you
> > > have the box up and running check out the
> > > /usr/platform/*280R*/sbin/rscadm program, it lets you setup the RSC
> > > consoles.  If you open the box up, you'll notice that the RSC board has
> > > a 56k USR PCMCIA modem on it for the modem port.  :-)
> > > Basically it's a lot like LOM but much much more
> > > accessible/configurable.
> > >
> > > "Robert L. Harris" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > We have a 280 in to play with. Booted it up, connected to the ttyA
> > > > console as we normally do.  It gave some output and is waiting on a
> > > > login.  Not taking keyboard input.  At this point I notice the console
> > > > card, plug into it.  It's looking for a login/pass.
> > > >
> > > > Since we haven't set one I'm guessing it has a system default.  Anyone
> > > > have any idea what this is set to by default?
> > > >
> > > > :wq!
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Robert L. Harris                |  Micros~1 :
> > > > Senior System Engineer          |    For when quality, reliability
> > > >   at RnD Consulting             |      and security just aren't
> > > >                                 \_       that important!
> > > > DISCLAIMER:
> > > >       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> > > > FYI:
> > > >  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
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:wq!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Robert L. Harris                |  Micros~1 :  
Senior System Engineer          |    For when quality, reliability 
  at RnD Consulting             |      and security just aren't
                                \_       that important!
DISCLAIMER:
      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
FYI:
 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
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