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Serial Console Access From Solaris (tip)

tip hardwire

From within tip, you can access a tip menu by pressing ~? after a carriage return. To quit the tip session, press ~. and to send a break character, type ~#

Some common tip commands are:

~. (end session)
~# (break--same as STOP-A)
~? (list all tip commands)

Serial Console Access From Linux (minicom)

Configure minicom

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| A -    Serial Device      : /dev/ttyS0                                |
| B - Lockfile Location     : /var/lock                                 |
| C -   Callin Program      :                                           |
| D -  Callout Program      :                                           |
| E -    Bps/Par/Bits       : 9600 8N1                                  |
| F - Hardware Flow Control : Yes                                       |
| G - Software Flow Control : No                                        |
|                                                                       |
|    Change which setting?                                              |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
After making all necessary changes, hit the ESC key to go back 
to the "configurations" menu. Now go to "Modem and dialing". 
Change the "Init string" to "~^M~". Save the settings (as dflt), 
and then restart Minicom. You should now see a login prompt.

Serial Console Access From Linux (uucp/cu)

"cu" is a very minimal command from the uucp package.

cu -l [device] -s [speed]

Example:

cu -l /dev/ttyS0 -s 9600

You may need to hit enter before you see the login prompt. If you see a bunch of weird characters, then you probably specified the wrong speed. To exit, just type "~.".