Reliable terminal emulation in the modern age?

Tue Nov 1 19:41:24 PST 2005

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I'm not doing anything with serial directly, but rather trying to  
deal with various makes of servers, all of which use the BMC chipset  
for remote LOM.

Michael T. Halligan
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BitPusher, LLC
http://www.bitpusher.com/

On Nov 1, 2005, at 7:05 PM, Alvin Oga wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Michael T.Halligan wrote:
>
>> Is there such a thing as a working, usable terminal emulator? I'm
>> simply attempting to do some remote serial console work on a couple
>> of servers, specifically in the BIOS. I'm finding this to be an
>> almost impossible, and certainly unenjoyable experience. My main
>> platform
>> is OS X, on which I've tried both Terminal.app and iTerm, to no
>> avail. Not to be outdone, I've found putty on windows, and X windows
>> on Linux
>> to be equally broken
>
> what is broken ??
>
> if you are expecting to use a remote rs232 terminal to change
> the bios settings, than you'd be looking at server-class motherboards
> vs consumer/generic stuff
> 	- you probably will not be able to change the bios
> 	setting for things like "boot from sda instead of cdrom"
>
> if you use any random consumer motherboard, you should be able
> to see the bios bootup messages on rs232 ..
> 	- just fiddle with nullmodems, rs232 cables, genders
> 	baudrates, stop/start bits, etc
>
> 	minicom/seyon just works out of the box except for
> 	rs232 baudrate and cabling stuff
>
> c ya
> alvin
>

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