William Shank on Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:30:14 +0100


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RE: [PLUG] where to buy on line?


 i didn't think to remove the keyboard. maybe that is why i haven't been
able to get a serial terminal!

thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Sarod Yatawatta
To: ''plug@lists.phillylinux.org' '
Sent: 1/12/02 3:10 PM
Subject: RE: [PLUG] where to buy on line?

What about the serial port. As I remember, If you remove the keyboard
from
the sun, it sends all console output to the serial port.

On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, William Shank wrote:

>  and one other thing - 
> 
> does anyone know about SUN hardware? particularily older stuff. i have
an
> SPARCstation 4 that i once setup with mandrake 7 or redhat 7 (don't
recall
> exactly). When i set it up i had a sun monitor for it, which i
subsequently
> sold along with a lunchbox style sparcstation. after i sold it i
realized
> that i had never enabled ssh or even telnet, so i can't get into the
box to
> do anything to it.  at one point i got what i thought was an adapter
which
> change the sun video connector to standard PC style connector. i don't
think
> it was the proper connnector - i had about a second of almost legible
video
> then nothing - i think i blew the video. i pretty much confirmed this
by
> getting my hands on the original monitor - no luck. 
> 
> so my question is - does anyone know how i can get a terminal
connection to
> this or get into the PROM via a terminal connection? 
> 
> thanks
> chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Razler
> To: 'plug@lists.phillylinux.org'
> Sent: 1/12/02 2:38 PM
> Subject: RE: [PLUG] where to buy on line?
> 
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> I have not had many bad experiences with vendors from
> www.pricewatch.com.  Is there a specific hardware item you are
> looking for (hard drive, monitor, etc.)?
> 
> - -----Original Message-----
> From: William Shank [mailto:wshank@mbcnet.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 2:36 PM
> To: 'plug@lists.phillylinux.org'
> Subject: [PLUG] where to buy on line?
> 
> i'd like to know where are some good places to buy computer stuff
> on-line?
> do you have a preferred trusted vendor? i understand crucial is great
> for
> ram (wish i had known that before buying from edgemicro.com - very
> crappy
> return policy and i still haven't gotten my money back - months
> later), what
> other places are reputable? 
> 
> thanks
> 
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