<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Configure the terminal or the terminal emulator</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Remote Serial Console HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Preparation" HREF="preparation.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Configure the modem or the null-modem cable" HREF="preparation-modem.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Optionally configure the BIOS" HREF="bios.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECTION" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Remote Serial Console HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="preparation-modem.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 2. Preparation</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="bios.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECTION" ><H1 CLASS="SECTION" ><A NAME="PREPARATION-TERMINAL" ></A >2.5. Configure the terminal or the terminal emulator</H1 ><P >Configure the terminal to match the serial parameters. The data bits, parity bits and stop bits must match. If a modern <SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"smart"</SPAN > modem is used then the bit speeds need not match. If a dumb modem or a null modem cable is used then the bit speeds must match.</P ><P >Set <SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >CTS</SPAN >/<SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >RTS</SPAN > handshaking on, <SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >DTR</SPAN >/<SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >DSR</SPAN > handshaking off and <SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >XON</SPAN >/<SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >XOFF</SPAN > handshaking off. Your equipment may call <SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >CTS</SPAN >/<SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >RTS</SPAN > handshaking or <SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >DTR</SPAN >/<SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >DSR</SPAN > handshaking <SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"hardware handshaking"</SPAN > and may call <SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >XON</SPAN >/<SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >XOFF</SPAN > handshaking <SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"software handshaking"</SPAN >.</P ><P >Set automatic line wrapping on. This allows all of a long console message to be read.</P ><P >Set the received end of line characters to <SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >CR</SPAN > <SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >LF</SPAN > (carriage return then line feed). Set the transmitted end of line characters to just <SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >CR</SPAN > (carriage return).</P ><P >If you are using a terminal emulator then it is best to choose to emulate the popular <SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >DEC</SPAN > <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >VT100</SPAN > or <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >VT102</SPAN > terminal. Later terminals in the <SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >DEC</SPAN > <SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >VT</SPAN > range are compatible with the <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >VT100</SPAN >. If this terminal is not available then try to emulate another terminal that implements <I CLASS="CITETITLE" ><SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >ANSI</SPAN > <SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >X3.64-1979</SPAN > Additional Controls for Use with American National Standard Code for Information Interchange</I > (or its successor <I CLASS="CITETITLE" > <SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >ISO</SPAN >/<SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >IEC</SPAN > 6429:1992 <SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >ISO</SPAN > Information technology — Control functions for coded character sets</I >). For example, many emulators have a terminal called <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >ANSI BBS</TT > which uses the <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >IBM PC</SPAN > character set, the 16 <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >IBM PC</SPAN > colors, a 80 column by 25 line screen and a selection of <I CLASS="CITETITLE" >X3.64-1979</I > control sequences.</P ><P >See the <A HREF="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.html" TARGET="_top" ><I CLASS="CITETITLE" >Text-Terminal-HOWTO</I ></A > for much more information on configuring terminals.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="preparation-modem.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="bios.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Configure the modem or the null-modem cable</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="preparation.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Optionally configure the <SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >BIOS</SPAN ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >
