Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 08:38:33 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: "Jorge Mario G." <murcielako@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Unable to make the keyboard work "properly" Message-ID: <20021001063833.GZ30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020930184234.GH2409@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020930163225.9814.qmail@web13804.mail.yahoo.com> <20020930184234.GH2409@hades.hell.gr>
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# keramida@ceid.upatras.gr / 2002-09-30 21:42:34 +0300:
> On 2002-09-30 11:32, "Jorge Mario G." <murcielako@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Here is my problem. When I'm on the machine the keyboard works
> > perfect, but when i conect to that box thru SSH (Putty) the keyboard
> > is a mess; backspace is delete, delete doesnt work! nor does HOME,
> > END.
>
> This sounds like you don't have the proper terminal type set in PuTTY
> or your shell environment. Can you check the terminal type that PuTTY
> advertises to the ssh connection, and compare it with the output of
> the following command, while connected to FreeBSD?
>
> echo $TERM
>
> I have used PuTTY to connect to FreeBSD machines, or Linux machines,
> or Solaris machines, with an advertised terminal type of "xterm". The
> startup scripts of my shell on those machines never make any change to
> the TERM environment variable. It all "just works(TM)".
putty expects the remote system to be linux. that's why it does
weird things with keyboard. you'll want to at least make backspace
send ^H.
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