[Gllug] openboot on a sparc via minicom

[Jan Minar]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 12:11:00AM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> After a lot of woe (NEVER buying from ebuyer again) and eventually shelling 
> out ??25 for a null modem cable and gender changer on TCR, I have a booting 
> box and a terminal running.

Eh, it's not our fault you gave 8.40 per an actually needed wire ;-)

> I can get into SunOS5 and see the hardware ID of the NIC (which appears 
> unconfigured and pretty much unidentified - eg ifconfig gives me nothing and 
> I can see no obvious device file)

Would http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/SPARC-HOWTO.html be of any
help?

HTH.

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