[ipxe-devel] putty and ipxe over serial port

Tue Apr 12 14:07:23 UTC 2016

disabling bios serial console redirection did the trick.
Thanks!

      From: Sergii Kolisnyk <kolkmail at gmail.com>
 To: ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org 
 Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 10:39 PM
 Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] putty and ipxe over serial port

Hi,
have you tried CP437 character set? I think it's what console redirection uses.
Best regards,Sergii

On Tuesday, 12 April 2016, Maule Mark <mark_maule at yahoo.com> wrote:

Ah, okay.  This is a server, so redirection is probably the main issue.  Putty has vt100, vt400 and a variety of other emulations, so good to know that vt100 is what I need.

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 On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Owen Mann<owen-javanet at rcn.com> wrote:  Not sure about the Putty part; I'd hope there was some kind of VT100 emulation you could turn on.

As for the "jumpy cursor", is this a server? It sounds like Console Redirection is turned on in the BIOS. That doesn't play well 
with serial console.

On 04/11/16 16:56, Maule Mark wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I'm fairly new to iPXE.  I'm connecting a putty session to an iPXE shell across a 9600 baud serial port (COM1).  My connection is 
> via telnet to a terminal server port wired to the serial port.
>
> No matter what Putty settings I try for character set (UTF-8) or terminal type, I cannot seem to get a fully usable 80x25 putty 
> window.  Generally what happens is that I get an iPXE> prompt, but the cursor goes back to some line, and any characters I type 
> end up in column 0 on that line.  Commands such as 'help' work, but character input is spotty (dropped characters) and usually I 
> only get a handful of lines of output before the output wraps up to an earlier line (not necessarily the first line of the Putty 
> window).
>
> I've tried all kinds of things, disabling all of the non-serial consoles and can't get any different results.  Anyone have any 
> ideas/thoughts on this?
>
> On a similar note, is there any way to filter out the ANSI sequences so Putty doesn't have to deal with them?  I see syslog/vmware 
> consoles seem to do that, but not sure if that will work for a serial console.
>
> thanks
> Mark
>
>
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      From: Sergii Kolisnyk <kolkmail at gmail.com>
 To: ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org 
 Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 10:39 PM
 Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] putty and ipxe over serial port

Hi,
have you tried CP437 character set? I think it's what console redirection uses.
Best regards,Sergii

On Tuesday, 12 April 2016, Maule Mark <mark_maule at yahoo.com> wrote:

Ah, okay.  This is a server, so redirection is probably the main issue.  Putty has vt100, vt400 and a variety of other emulations, so good to know that vt100 is what I need.

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 On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Owen Mann<owen-javanet at rcn.com> wrote:  Not sure about the Putty part; I'd hope there was some kind of VT100 emulation you could turn on.

As for the "jumpy cursor", is this a server? It sounds like Console Redirection is turned on in the BIOS. That doesn't play well 
with serial console.

On 04/11/16 16:56, Maule Mark wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I'm fairly new to iPXE.  I'm connecting a putty session to an iPXE shell across a 9600 baud serial port (COM1).  My connection is 
> via telnet to a terminal server port wired to the serial port.
>
> No matter what Putty settings I try for character set (UTF-8) or terminal type, I cannot seem to get a fully usable 80x25 putty 
> window.  Generally what happens is that I get an iPXE> prompt, but the cursor goes back to some line, and any characters I type 
> end up in column 0 on that line.  Commands such as 'help' work, but character input is spotty (dropped characters) and usually I 
> only get a handful of lines of output before the output wraps up to an earlier line (not necessarily the first line of the Putty 
> window).
>
> I've tried all kinds of things, disabling all of the non-serial consoles and can't get any different results.  Anyone have any 
> ideas/thoughts on this?
>
> On a similar note, is there any way to filter out the ANSI sequences so Putty doesn't have to deal with them?  I see syslog/vmware 
> consoles seem to do that, but not sure if that will work for a serial console.
>
> thanks
> Mark
>
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail. Get it now <https://yho.com/146xkg>
>
>
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