On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 10:00:17AM -0500, kerberus wrote:

You need a null modem, not a gender changer. Although you might need one
of those depending if it's like a Sun where the DB25 is a female. 

Matt

> okay so now i need a gender changer, ill try swapping the chips to see
> if that helps, if not, ill work on the console aspects, i dont need the
> frame buffer anyway, i can ssh to the box once i get a *BSD on it.
> Thanks for the info
> 
> On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 09:35, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > Yes, the NetBSD boot loader may be more strict about memory layout than
> > the solaris one.
> > 
> > > if i did that id have to console into it, and i dont see a serial port
> > > on this thing. I finally got Linux RedHat 6.2 to install but i want a
> > > *BSD
> > 
> > The serial port is a 25DB female, marked A/B
> > 
> > --
> > Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
> > --
> 
>