HELP with R40 !!!!!!

[electronware]

I acquired an R-40 that was in parts that I have now reassembled and I need someone's AIX expertise on a couple things. I plan to run this as hosting server. It has seven 9 gig SSA trays fully populated and 4 cpus running with 512 Megs of ram, this machine was used as a backup machine for SAP system but should make a great hosting machine with all that storage.

I am pretty well informed when comes to the AS/6000's hardware been in the CE field for over 20 years but I believe these problems are more of software issues and they have me baffled.

Anyway on to the problems...

I have the serial console port on the R-40 communicating with a laptop using hyper term, this is my only way in to the system right now!

I can get to the maintenance screen and I can even get a logon and log on to root, but this is where I have hit a roadblock! I cannot get the smitty cursor to work, which makes it almost impossible to admin the system...

I have also down loaded several other emulators and tried them and they also behave the same way when you try to move the cursor to select something, well it just sets at the bottom and blinks! I am wondering is there a key sequence that I need to make it move when using the console port...

I have tried ever setting imaginable on the TTY programs and the machine. I usually just telnet in for this and it has never been an issue but right that this is not an option.

It is driving me NUTS! I know I am close or I would not be able to logon and navigate trough the system. ITS JUST smit that is giving me fits that and…

The second problem, which is when I got the machine it, had 5 fiber LAN FIDO cards that I had no use for so I removed them and cleared them in the system setup. Now in the parts I acquired there were several RJ45 10/100 cards which is the format I need, but how do I get this card to become activate in the OS system, it is running AIX 4.2 I have some UNIX experience but not that much on the os setup and install front, but more on the admin side.

Any Help would really be appreciated
AJ

 

[bi]

Regarding the 10/100 cards: When the system boots, one of the things is does is run cfgmgr, which will detect the new cards after you install them and start they box.

Regarding the problem with smitty: have you exported your TERM as vt100 (TERM=vt100; export TERM)?

Are you going to upgrade this system to at least 4.3.3? I would recommend that.

 

[petertp6]

about 10/100 ethernet card, you have to make sure it have a label printed 9-K or 9-Q.
if it's right, system will auto config when boot up.

about smit, sometimes no mater how you change TERM type, It just do not work!
But there is a way can help you, USE A IBM NOTEBOOK!
I know it is nonsense, but it work!
I think maybe some laptop or notebook do send non-standard keyboard signal.

 

[electronware]

Thanks, I will try those suggestions and yes I have AIX 4.3 but needless to say right now I am just trying to get the LAN and telnet back up so I can proceed on.. Oh and yes I exported term to VT100 and TTY neither made any differance..

Again Thanks and I will let you know how it goes..

 

[Yegolev]

maybe try export TERM=xterm, smitty is a pain like that.

when you get telnet working, use that. =) faster than S1 port. i use PuTTY to telnet with TERM=aixterm and i get nice colors with ViM.

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[McleanWJM]

When using a terminal if you must use smit, use smit -C
it invokes the terminal smitty interface, I definately would setup the terminal type as VT100.
<export TERM=vt100 >
<smit -C >

 

[fluffybunny]

You might want to try pressing the escape key before pressing the appropriate number key for the option you want.

Or you can try to export TERM=ibm3151 or TERM=ibm3153 and exporting it.

Cheers.