On Apr 30, 2006, at 2:16 PM, Sean Davis wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Should be: setenv input-device ttya
>
> At least, that's what it is on my older (netra t1 105 and earlier) 
> systems.

   Yep, that's the correct incantation for OpenBoot on E450 systems as 
well.  This is true for all SPARC systems except for all processors in 
the Sun-4 line except the Sun-4/600.

         -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL