On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, julien maerten wrote:

>First of all, thanx for your fast answer.

You're welcome.

>I'm sure that my cable is right, as I can use it to connect to the
>Irix's serial console.
>In my serial communication software, I use the settings 9600 / 8N1
>
>> sure you don't have a keyboard plugged into the Indy, or you have the
>> PROM setup to boot straight to serial console.
>>
>
>and how do you do that ? Here are some of my env prom vars :
>
>...
>console=g
>diskless=0
>...
>dbaud=9600
>ConsoleOut=video()
>ConsoleIn=keyboard()

If you unplug the keyboard and monitor it should automagically use the
serial console, otherwise you'll need to change the prom env vars to
reflect console=d rather than g for the serial port to be selected.  See
prom(1) under Irix for details.

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