Re: [PLUG] where to buy on line?

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:18:09PM -0500, Paul wrote:
> What type of cable does it require?

The Sun end wants a DIN 9 (like a Mac). The other end can be what
you want (like, say, DB 9, which a PC wants; I have several DIN 9 to
DB 9 cables because I frequently my Thinkpad as a serial consoles for
PowerPC macs; they're inexpensive).

> I have my Linux console running at 115200, which makes a difference 
> in scroll speed when I run "ls -l /etc".

Unless you're talking about a really old sparc, you can probably get
away with that.

I'd go with the previous suggestion of 9600 to make sure things work
to start up, though.

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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