Re: [cobalt-users] TELNET PROBLEM

[elmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Wayne Sagar wrote:

} No joy here either.. there is no vid card in the RaQ....
} *if* you can't get in via ssh or telnet or some other
} outside means to do something with the system, only o
} options are complete restore or pull the disk, mount
} it on another system and poke around...

	Hardware is not my area of expertise. However, while I
may not know the proper names for the gizmos, I do know that you can
connect another computer directly to your RAQ and login using
something like minicom (Linux) or that whatever it's called terminal
program that comes with Windows. I do this regularly here using a
standard CAT5 (crossover I believe but I don't have time to look
right now) cable and a serial adaptor gizmo that I bought at a
local computer store for a few bucks. I just stretch the CAT5 cable
we use for this over to the server, plug it in via that adaptor
gizmo, then fire up minicom on the desktop and log right in. No
big deal at all. Works every time. If you box is colocated the
support team ought to be pretty handy with this kind of thing. It's
a very common proceedure at server farms, big and small.

	I am sorry, I don't know the names of the gizmos. Hardware
is something I pay people to do for me. But there's not much too
this. Just a cable and an adapter. Any computer store ought to be
able to fix you up.