[rescue] LX serial woes

[Koyote]

Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at yahoo.com> writes:

> --- Koyote <koyote at koyote.cx> wrote:
> > Okay, so I'm obviously missing something- I have 2 LX machines, and
> > neither of them can I connect to with serial. I'm using my old
> > jornada 720, but the same config and cable and etc. that I just
> > reverified works fine on my utra1.  I know that there are some
> > oddities involved with the a/b combined serial on the LX, but I'd
> > thought that serial A was just bog standard and all the excess
> > pinnage was devoted to serialB.
> 
> Electrically, everything will be as you expect, and since it works on
> your Ultra 1, I think you already knew that...

yeah, the ultra1 is fine, but something amiss with the LXen.

> 
> My issue was that the serial ports under Solaris 9 (and I have every
> reason to believe earlier releases were similar) *initialize* the
> serial ports, but don't enable them for use... Could this be your
> problem?

I'm trying to load an OS :)  -so the problem is at the OBP level right
now.

I'd blame it on the jornada and windows CE, except it works fine on the
ultra1.