[ipxe-devel] putty and ipxe over serial port

[Sergii Kolisnyk]

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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