Sean Cummins on Wed, 23 Oct 2002 08:06:09 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Sparc Station 20 & BNC Monitor


I'm not aware of any adapters that will get that monitor connected to the Sparc20, but you can use a null modem cable attached to serial port A on the sun box, which is a 25 pin female (or is it male?  i'm not 100% sure on that one).

Use your favorite terminal emulator (hyperterm, minicom, whatever), with the usual 9600/8/N/1, No flow control, boot up the Sun box, and you should get the console via the null modem cable.

- Sean


On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:54:29AM -0400, Joel A. Matz wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> This is more hardware than linux, but only 'cause I can't get to the OS 
> side yet...
> 
> I recently came into a Sparc Station 20 & an IBM PowerDisplay20 monitor. 
>  The monitor is a 5 cable BNC, the sparc video a 13W3.  Any way to get 
> the two together?  I have a 13W3 to 5BNC cable with dip switchs but 
> don't know which ones to switch or whether it needs to be rewired.
> 
> I also have a 13W3 to SVGA adapter but was unable to get a signal on 
> several monitors.  Possibly the graphics board is dead, but I don't know :(
> 
> I'd like to put the box up on my network but can't even see if in boots 
> past POST.
> 
> This is my first adventure in Sun hardware
> 
> Thanks, Joel.
> 
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