Sorry for the delay in reply, I'm just now getting to my email backlog =
:(

I have a color/turbo hooked up in a really ugly way for serial console.

I set the prom to serial A on (which I'm sure you did), and had a NeXT
hardware handshake serial cable (which differed between the 030 and 040 =
boards as the 030 didn't have hardware handshaking, and the 040's did), =
to a 25pin->9pin adapter and a 9pin<->9pin null modem adapter to the =
back of a PC.

UGLY. But works.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-next68k-owner@netbsd.org
> [mailto:port-next68k-owner@netbsd.org]On Behalf Of Robert Sturrock
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 7:01 PM
> To: port-next68k@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: cube color monitor without mono monitor (was: REEELLY old
> message ...)
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> On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 10:26:31AM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > > This is partially correct information.  Early cubes had a =
switching
> > > power supply that required the monitor load to operate correctly.
> > > [...]  There are directions floating around out on the web on how =
to
> > > rig a resistor on the MegaPixel port to fool the power supply and
> > > thus boot headless, but I don't know where to find them off hand.
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> > http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/next68k/faq.html#no-monitor
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> This information describes mono systems.  Anyone know how to make a
> Colour Turbo (with the 13W3 adapter + soundbox) boot headless?
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> On a related subject, anyone know how to attach a serial console
> successfully to a Colour Turbo?  When I attached one and set the `use
> alternate console' option in the PROM, nothing happened, even when the
> monitor was detached (but not the soundbox/keyboard I must admit, =
since
> you need to keyboard to actually power the machine on!).
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> Cheers,
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> /r.
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