John Valko wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I recently acquired a Netra machine and now I'm trying to get it set up.
> The first thing I did was change the jumpers for the serial ports so
> that they would operate using RS-232 instead of the default RS-423. I've
> connected to the machine using a DB-9 female to DB-25 male null modem
> cable. I'm using the terminal program minicom under Linux. I've set
> the baud rate to 9600, data bits to 8, stop bits to 1, parity to none.
> I've tried both the A and B serial port, but I can't get any response.
> I'm totally new at this, so I could be missing something obvious. Most
> of the Sun documentation I've come across doesn't say anything about how
> to connect a PC to a Netra, so I was wondering if anyone can offer me
> some advice or point me to some documentation that explains how to do this.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --John

Well, it looks like my problem was actually that I didn't have my Linux
kernel set right. I rebuilt with SLIP and raw serial port access and
now it works!

--John