"Phil Knaack" writes:
>Dustin Sallings wrote:
>
>>	Tried local and softcar, still don't get a login prompt.  That's
>>the thing I don't get.  Kermit will talk to the terminal or the HP200LX
[...]
>is still in a static bag at the bottom of a pile of boxes.
>
>	Once its out of its cocoon I can tell you how its set..
>
>Cheers,
>Phil
>
>[1] Its not entirely headless, as the bootblocks don't seem to work with
>    -DSERIAL. Is anybody currently using -DSERIAL in their bootblocks?

Yeppers, spent this weekend figuring it out. You need to assert
CTS/RTS or whatever on the port for it to work (at least on our 
machines.. Intel MB 120 MHz Pentiums)--even though the kernel boots
fine without the handshake, the bootblocks still seem to require 
this (anyone want to "fix" this, perhaps with an #ifdef? My
own knowledge of i386 assembly is inadequate (thankfully?)...)
I pulled out the soldering iron and connected pin 4 from the terminal
to pins 5 and 6 on the PC side (DB25--there's a DB9/DB25 converter
thrown in there and a null modem too...)

   Regards,
     Mika

NetBSD guitar.cs.caltech.edu 1.1B NetBSD 1.1B (HEADLESS) #4: Sun Jun 16 01:57:27 PDT 1996     mika@guitar.cs.caltech.edu:/tmp_mnt/violin/work/src1.1B-0511/sys/arch/i386/compile/HEADLESS i386