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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.
>
>
>
>

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Email . scrappy@hub.org                              MSN . scrappy@hub.org
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