Subject: Re: Stop-A with a dumb terminal?
To: Vicky Staubly <vicky@steeds.com>
From: Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 07/08/2004 14:14:16
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 16:08:59 -0400 (EDT), Vicky Staubly <vicky@steeds.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:46:59PM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> > > I saw the firmware go through the boot stages, but I
> > > didn't know how to stop it. I can't really type stop-a.
> >
> > You need to send a BREAK. There is a menu entry to do that with
> > Hyperterminal, IIRC.
> 
> On my XP PC at work, I don't see such a menu item. According to this
> web page ( http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/701/61.html ) ctrl-break
> should work (where the "break" key may also have "pause" written on it.
> The web page also lists how to generate a break using other terminal
> software.

Any special terminal setting I should use? I'm always just using vt100.

Thanks for this response everyone.

Andy