On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
> I used both kermit and cu as terminal emulators. This E450 already has
> solaris of some kind on it. I got farthest with the Sun Keyboard
> attached though. With the terminal emulator I couldn't get the machine
> to respond at all. Is/was there some protection switch that you could
> set on the PROM to keep the E450 from listening to the keyboard until
> after the operating system has booted. I'm wondering if the people who
> owned this box before set some ultra high security setting on the box.

Oh, you just reminded me of something. There are 4 positions for
the "power key" (top-right corner), one of which does something
like you mention. I have an E450, currently running FreeBSD, as
my main home web/email server.

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