by We recently purchased a WYSE-51 terminal to act as the console
on a Sparcserver 1000 running solaris 2.3. I never changed a thing
on the wyse terminal and plugged it in to port 'A' on the 1000 with
a standard RS-232 null modem cable. I then turned on the 1000
and the terminal came on as the console. I thought to myself that
that was to easy. When the OS finally booted I noticed it was putting
a "hostname console login:" and a "tty login:" prompt to the terminal.
I fired up admintool from my x terminal and disable serial port 'A' to get
rid of the extra tty login process on the terminal.
The process that was looking for the console was using a -T SUN option
and I wanted to change it to vt320 so I called Sun Support after I looked
through the SAF stuff for about an hour with no luck. I really didn't think
it would be in that OS utility since the terminal is basically on from power
up time. Sun Support first suggested that I change it through the admin
tool. I explained to him that I had to disable port 'A' from there since some
other process had taken control of the port. He seemed puzzed by this and
told me that the terminal was being controled by an EPROM (that makes sense).
Anyway I don't think the terminal is configured right because I noticed the
WYSE terminal stuck in caps mode. I turned off the power to the
terminal after trying a few software resets. That was a mistake, by turning off
the power to the terminal/console it crashed the 1000. Does anybody have a
clue as to why it did that? Also, I have scanned answerbook but can't seem
to find an area on console terminal configuration.
Thank's in advance
rookie sysadm