Thanks for all the help. I turned out that the terminal I was using was windows only. I purchased a Wyse win term Linux ready. It took all of 2 minutes to have it up on the network connect to the server. Thanks again for all the pointers. Jack On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 16:01, 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. > > > 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. Jack Taffar Information Systems Comperio (Latin) to find out , discover, gain certain information of. known, undoubted.