On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 04:01:29PM -0600, Jack Taffar wrote: > Hi All > My goal is to test a dumb terminal connecting to my redhat server and > run X desktop. I am a greenhorn with redhat. The terminal is a Wyse > Winterm. For now I am not using DHCP. I will drop an IP address in the > terminal. The server and the terminal will be on the same network. Hi Jack. I have to assume you aren't really talking about a "dumb terminal". Typically a dumb terminal is connected to the computer by a serial line and is only cable of displaying alpha-characters (of some character set) and some simple line graphics. In order to do what you want, your Wyse device must be an "X-terminal" which is a display device with an X-server built into it, typically in ROM. usually these are connected to a LAN or other high-speed medium to communicate to the application server (or "X client device"). Does your Wyse Winterm has an Xserver capability? (In the early days of X-Terminals some of these devices were just IBM PC's with special software to make them act as an X-device, a perfectly reasonable solution) Now then, what is your question? Do you need to figure out what IP address to assign to your X-terminal? > > > output from uname -a: > Linux Hydrogen 2.6.5-1.358 #1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004 i686 athlon > i386 GNU/Linux > > ANY HELP will be greatly appreciated ! > > > > Jack Taffar > Information Systems > Comperio > (Latin) to find out , discover, gain certain information of. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- "The only system which is truly secure, is one which is switched off and unplugged, locked in a titanium lined safe, buried in a concrete bunker, surrounded by nerve gas and very highly paid armed guards. Even then, I wouldn't stake my life on it" - Gene Spafford (Good thing. the law of unintended consequences: A laptop, w/wireless NIC and wake on "date" set in the BIOS) Jargon file, abrgd.: The September that never ended. On the Internet, every September's freshmen influx got their first accounts and, not knowing how to post/email, always made a nuisance of themselves. Usually they were trained in a few months. But in September 1993, AOL users became able to post, overwhelming the capacity to acculturate them; to those who recall the period before, this triggered a decline in the quality of online communications. Syn. eternal September. http://kinz.org http://www.fedoranews.org Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.
