[AIX 4.3] Adding a serial tty with smitty

MD3 · 04-08-2005, 12:41 PM

I tried to add a serial TTY with smitty, using the command "smitty tty". I tried a lot of possible configurations and portnumbers.. but i ever receive the same error:
Method error(/etc/methods/define):
0514-022 The specified link is not available
it seems to be an error of the define program... but i couldn't find anything out in the manual and with google too.
does anyone have some suggestion about this? thanks

zorba4 · 04-09-2005, 03:59 PM

which hardware do you have ?
And which AIX ?
Maybe you have a system with no serial port, or an AIX version with no serial drivers.

MD3 · 04-10-2005, 12:27 PM

AIX is the one of the topic: 4.3
It's installed on a IBM RS/6000 7248 with 2 serial ports. To the first of this two is linked a Chameleon 320 serial terminal... it's important to say that it ran perfectly when i had debian woody installed on the same machine

thanks

zorba4 · 04-12-2005, 01:46 PM

Did you really choose "smit tty" and then choose the first appearing port ?

MD3 · 04-13-2005, 09:05 AM

yes!

zorba4 · 04-13-2005, 01:38 PM

Ouch ! readlly bad luck. It should have worked.

MD3 · 04-14-2005, 11:53 AM

yes! great advice :P
happy birthday

zorba4 · 04-14-2005, 03:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MD3
yes! great advice :P
happy birthday

Thanks for the "happy birthday". Sorry for the bad advice, but something really "big" is wrong, if this thing were my box I would immediately boot it on the first AIX CD-ROM and see if something appears on the console. Moreover, if you simply power down your system and type "ENTER" at the Chameleon 320 serial terminal, what happends ?
By the way, are you sure that the speed and parity inside the terminal settings are 9600bauds, 8bits/no-parity ? Same as on the "smit tty" screen?

msilvers · 01-13-2006, 11:45 AM

try smit mkdev

MD3 · 01-21-2006, 05:48 AM

hey msilvers.. it's about 1 year i have no more that terminal