Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 12:53:10 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Michael Vince <mv@thebeastie.org> Cc: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@juniper.net>, Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@sylvana.boldlygoingnowhere.org>, freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DL 380/G5 with 16G of ram Message-ID: <20060909125246.I906@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <4502D7DF.5060302@thebeastie.org> References: <45008628.2000007@juniper.net> <4500F627.1040104@thebeastie.org> <20060908130444.V64655@ganymede.hub.org> <20060909151636.A4598@sylvana.boldlygoingnowhere.org> <4502D7DF.5060302@thebeastie.org>
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We almost need a step-by-step guide to "configurating a Proliant server for remote access" :) On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, Michael Vince wrote: > Olaf Hoyer wrote: > >> On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> >>>> >>>> It looks like HP were trying to have better remote serial bios support by >>>> going really basic command line style for remote BIOS control but its no >>>> good. >>>> The Dell bios is all nice and menu'ed and works flawlessly over remote >>>> serial, no garbledness overwriting other text. >>> >> >> The HP boxes offer 2 ways of serial: traditional BIOS redirection at 9600 >> bps through 9pin COM1, which you can set up in BIOS, I recall that there >> are some options to it, like terminal type, ANSI or VT100. Could that be an >> issue in your environment? >> > Yeah the terminal choice is probably it, I asked some one on the local side > of the server to enable the serial bios via COM1 and when it would display a > full screen and then just garble everything else at the bottom I asked him > about 5 times to look for some kind of ANSI or VT100 terminal type option so > I could have a chance of seeing whats really going on he said there was > nothing, but now I am sure he just couldn't see it or just didn't care to > look. > I tried every terminal type I could on my side to help try make it display > properly, but it just didn't work. > > Thanks for all the input. > > > > ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664
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