communicate via serial... how-to?
 

I just got my hands on this old-school Sparcstation IPX.... 40 Mhz

Anywase, I don't have a monitor or anything for it and I am trying to use telnet through the serial connection. my question is... HOW DO I DO IT? what do I put in for "telnet <?>" I've tried a couple things and can't get it to work, ex:

bash-2.05a# telnet ptys0
ptys0: Unknown host


I'm sure I'm way off here.


Can I communicate with the sparc box this way?

Thanks for any help

I use minicom to connect to the Sun systems that I admin. It works just fine.

thanks... I'm trying it now. I am pretty sure it's on /dev/ttyS0 .... but is there something similar to "ping" for serial connections?

thanks... I ended up getting in w/ kermit on /dev/ttyS0. do you know what this means?:

(/etc)506}le0: No carrier - transceiver cable problem?


I guess it's because i don't have ethernet connected to it... do you know how I can stop that from popping up?

either way.... thanks for your help

It's checking for network connectivity. You could simply down the interface with:
ifconfig le0 down

Remove /etc/hostname.le0 if this not going to a networked machine or if you are using something beside le0.