difference between cu and putty for serial connections

takCoder tak.official at gmail.com
Wed Mar 6 10:12:00 UTC 2013


nice to mention, at least for me, that changing putty keyboard settings
from ESC[n~ to VT100+ solved my problem temporarily.. :)

i'll work on solving my problem permanently, may be via working on keymap
differences..

Thank you all :)

Best Regards,
t.a.k


On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:24 PM, takCoder <tak.official at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi all,
>
> i'm trying to activate my custom boot0 on a headless server. i got my
> required results while connecting by cu, but not when i use putty to
> connect..
>
> here's the scenario:
> one of my goals in this custom boot0 is to deactivate all keys but F2 for
> some reasons..
> i applied required changes to the boot0.S code and applied DONLY_F_KEYS in
> the Makefile and changed the flags BOOT_BOOT0_FLAGS to required values and
> got required output using cu.
>
> but when i connect to the mentioned server using putty, my F keys don't
> work and i  have to remove DONLY_F_KEYS in Makefile so '2' Key become
> available (SIO mode activated??)
>
> i don't know so much things about this sio mode here.. would someone
> please explain  their difference to me? i have no idea.. is it related to
> the keymap differences?
>
> any suggestions are really appritiated.. Thank you all  :)
>
> Best Regards,
> t.a.k
>


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