> 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.

This is a normal behaviour for imho all Sun Sparc systems. if you plug
a keyboard. At least the input over the com is disabled. You have to
use the keyboard instead.
you can force via openPROM with setenv
I don't remeber the variable and I'm currently not at home, you can
get a list with printenv.

Best Regards
Stephan