Hello,

maybe you cable is wrong.

Try make a null modem cable like the pic on

www.marty44.net/img/indycable.png

the mini 8 is male and the sub-d is female

I use this cable for connecting my PC to the indy since I have no monitor
for the indy.

hope this is helpful and sorry for the bad english

marty

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http://www.marty44.net

On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Robert Boehne wrote:

> 
> I've been trying to install NetBSD on one of my Indy's for some
> months now, and it all comes down to:
>   "I can't get a serial console working."
> 
> I've seen the recent FAQ on serial consoles, and built a serial
> cable according to the pinouts listed for an 8-pin MiniDIN SGI
> to DB9.  I then tested the pinouts with an ohmmeter after the soldering.
> 
> Some time ago I enabled serial console in the PROM (from the system
> maintenance menu)  as well as in /etc/inittab.  Since I did that, I
> don't
> ever see the system maintenance menu button.  Here is what I do,
> -  Disconnect keyboard on the Indy
> -  connect the serial cable
> -  fire up minicom, 9600 8N1
> (tried other port when com1 didn't work, also attempted with window$
> terminal)
> 
> Wait.    The machine boots up to xdm, and after I plug in the keyboard,
> works normally, but still running IRIX (not what I wanted).
> 
> Is there some sequence of commands that I need to execute to
> get the serial interface to work?   Is minicom the wrong choice?
> 
> I've scanned NetBSD.org  for more info on several occasions but
> never found much until the recent "serial console faq", but that
> still didn't get me there.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
>