Re: Connecting to Sun Ultra 5 over serial line

[Nathan Johnson]

By the way, in my experiences with Sun, you need hardware flow control
enabled.  Also, you need to ensure that the cables you are using have
all of the pins connected, and you are correct in assuming that you
need a null style cable.  Occasionally you'll find a crappy serial
cable where the hardware flow control pins are disconnected.  On my
sun's (ultra 10 and ss20), they use the following by default:  8N1
9600 rts/cts