From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 9 15:53:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 798E516A415; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:53:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 026F743D45; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:53:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DCC7291AFC; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 12:53:11 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 69314-08; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 12:53:11 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-137-86-60.eastlink.ca [24.137.86.60]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72278290C74; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 12:53:10 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5379E3C10F; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 12:53:10 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DB1D355DD; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 12:53:10 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 12:53:10 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Michael Vince In-Reply-To: <4502D7DF.5060302@thebeastie.org> Message-ID: <20060909125246.I906@ganymede.hub.org> References: <45008628.2000007@juniper.net> <4500F627.1040104@thebeastie.org> <20060908130444.V64655@ganymede.hub.org> <20060909151636.A4598@sylvana.boldlygoingnowhere.org> <4502D7DF.5060302@thebeastie.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Josef Grosch , Olaf Hoyer , freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DL 380/G5 with 16G of ram X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:53:13 -0000 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