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how to get the lom prompt from the hyperterminal from windows xp laptop ?

Hi Experts,

I have sunfire v100 But I am not able to get the lom prompt from the hyperterminal,
I have a DB9 female adapter connected to the com port on my laptop and a ethernet cable is connected to the com port ( i.e. DB9 ) and the same cable is connected to the SunFire v100 A LOM port on sunfire v100.
Can some one guide me on how to do this as there is no OS installed on this server. How to install the OS in this scenario ?

Thanks a lot

rajsolaris

ASKER

I am attaching the screen shot of the hyperterminal.
Thanks.
screenshot-for-hyperterminal.JPG

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Brian Utterback

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rajsolaris

ASKER

No I already had RJ 45 with me i used that and I purchased the DB 9 Female adpter from EBAY, those were not shipped with the V100. The serial port setting are correct what you have mentioned in the answer. I will try again today by using the inputs you have provided and will reply back tonight.

Thanks blu :-)
-Raj

Brian Utterback

Okay. At this point, I would be most specious of the pinouts of the adapter.

rajsolaris

ASKER

Okay. At this point, I would be most specious of the pinouts of the adapter.

What does it means by pinouts of the adapter ? OR Will I have to purchase the genunine sun DB adapter? which One it should be mail OR female ? Right now I have female adapter DB 9.

Thanks for you help.

Brian Utterback

Well, if you had the adapter that came with the system, then we wouldn't have to be suspicious. As far as I know, there is no standard for connecting DB-9 adapters by RJ-11 cable, so it is very possible that the pinouts are different. The link
I gave you above has a diagram of the actual pinouts needed. You should verify that the pinouts are the same on the adapter you have.

rajsolaris

ASKER

I have RJ - 45 ethernet cable and after observing the DB 9 adapter I found that one of the pin out of 8 pins is broken ( Only 7 pins are visible ) because as I counted the no of pins on the RJ-45 those are 8 pins and so should be on the DB 9 adapter. And on the serial connector on the laptop there are 9 pins. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thank You for taking out time to answer my question.

Brian Utterback

It is hard to say if that is a problem. There are only 7 pins used on the Sun adapter. Sometimes an adapter will leave
off missing pins, so that may be normal. Pins 1 and 9 are unused, so if the missing pins are those, you should still
be okay.

rajsolaris

ASKER

I am purchasing the original sun adapter and Cable.