Hello. I'm trying to connect to a Sun Ultra 5 from my OpenBSD laptop (a thinkpad) but I'm currently stuck. I have next to no experience with serial communications, so I'm groping around in the dark currently.
I have a serial cable with a null modem adapter connected to the DB9 serial port on my laptop and the DB25 A serial port on the Sun. I'm using minicom, at 9600 baud and using the /dev/tty00 device. When I switch on the Sun, I'm told that I should get some console output and then the usual ok> prompt. I actually get a lot of control characters and binary gibberish. Where exactly do I start with troubleshooting? The cable doesn't seem to be at fault, so I'm assuming that the problem is software related. cheers, MC
