14 Jun
2015
14 Jun
'15
12:56 a.m.
On Jun 14, 2015, at 12:05 AM, Mike Ross wrote:
I'm trying to resurrect a couple of Sparcstation
10 systems. Is there
anything 'funny' about the serial console settings on SS10 hardware? I
thought they always defaulted to 9600-n-8-1, but I get voluminous
gobbledygook at that, and at every other baud rate I've tried.
The SunOS 4 (and earlier) terminal driver sets the high bit. If you can see the OBP and
some of the early kernel messages, then it switches to junk, this is your problem. The
simplest thing to do is set your terminal emulator for "strip high bit".
ok
bear.
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until further notice