Help with configuring HP-UX Dumb terminal ...

[K.C. Chan]

All,
I'm trying to configure hp-ux dumb terminal. I've mistakenly used vt100 and can't get back to hpterm. The background is black, I can't use f10 then f8 to get back to configuring mode. Is a way to get back hpterm? Thanks.

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Borrowed from HP's Steffi Jones:

"turn the console off, press the key 'd' hold it and turn the console back on, release the key 'd'"

That should reset the console to the default configuration.


Pete

[K.C. Chan]

All,
I've figured it out, I reset it to factory default. It's set to hpterm, but it's still not displaying properly. Any suggestion on configuring it, so I could be on my merry way, installing hp-ux11i would be appreciated.

[Steven E. Protter]

You can try powering off the unit and then powering it back on

The

Menu

User System
config keys
datacomm config
terminal configuration
TermMode HP

This does not apply to dumb terminals.

SEP

[Pete Randall]

K.C.,

Check this thread:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xa01036e69499d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html


Pete

[Volker Borowski]

Be sure that "REMOTE MODE" is checked (F4 ?)
Do you see at least the boot-up messages ?
Or do you get no messages at all ?

Volker

[Bill Hassell]

When you say that it is not displaying correctly, do you mean that in the context of running vi or running SAM or swinstall in the character mode? This is usually due to a mismatch between your terminal emulation mode and $TERM. It is never a good idea to hardcode the terminal value in login profiles. Instead, use the HP-UX utility 'ttytype' to query the terminal and set the emulation value automatically as in:

eval $(ttytype -s)

What the above does is to take the output from ttytype -s and execute each line as if it was typed into the shell. Run the command yourself to see the results:

ttytype -s
TERM='70092'; export TERM;
LINES=24; export LINES;
COLUMNS=80; export COLUMNS;
ERASE='^H'; export ERASE;

In the default /etc/profile, there is an extensive if statement that bypasses the automatic setting for $TERM...take it out! Always run ttytype for every login so the TERM value matches the terminal. It turns out that telnet has a hidden method to set $TERM without regard to the real terminal.

BTW: HP terminals are only dumb when placed into the EM100 (EMulate vt100) mode. Using the HP mode makes SAM and swinstall significantly easier to navigate.

[Steven E. Protter]

Note that you can install and do Ignite in 11.00 in HP mode.

11.11 requires EM100 mode.

SEP

[K.C. Chan]

All, it displayed garbage during the install process (cold install). It turns out that the firmware terminal is set to vt100 where as the dumb terminal is set to hpterm. I ended up, setting the firmware terminal to match the dumb terminal and things are going well.