15.16. How to Set Up Serial Attached Devices

To use serial attached devices with a client, you must attach them to the internal serial ports.

Symbolic links to the serial port device nodes are located under $UTDEVROOT/dev/term. Built-in ports are named "a" or "b", and serial adapter ports have longer descriptive names.

Serial ports become unowned during hotdesking, so you should make sure any serial port activity is stopped before removing your smart card or resetting the client.

Note

All serial ports except port A on the Sun Ray 170 support full handshaking and standard UNIX semantics. Port A on the Sun Ray 170 has no hardware handshaking pins, so it can't be used when a hardware handshake is required.