From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 30 23:38:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6B1737B401 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:38:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7878443E7B for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:38:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 7586 invoked from network); 1 Oct 2002 06:38:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 1 Oct 2002 06:38:34 -0000 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 012B32FDAB2; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 08:38:33 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 08:38:33 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: freebsd-questions Cc: "Jorge Mario G." Subject: Re: Unable to make the keyboard work "properly" Message-ID: <20021001063833.GZ30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions , "Jorge Mario G." References: <20020930163225.9814.qmail@web13804.mail.yahoo.com> <20020930184234.GH2409@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020930184234.GH2409@hades.hell.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG # keramida@ceid.upatras.gr / 2002-09-30 21:42:34 +0300: > On 2002-09-30 11:32, "Jorge Mario G." wrote: > > Here is my problem. When I'm on the machine the keyboard works > > perfect, but when i conect to that box thru SSH (Putty) the keyboard > > is a mess; backspace is delete, delete doesnt work! nor does HOME, > > END. > > This sounds like you don't have the proper terminal type set in PuTTY > or your shell environment. Can you check the terminal type that PuTTY > advertises to the ssh connection, and compare it with the output of > the following command, while connected to FreeBSD? > > echo $TERM > > I have used PuTTY to connect to FreeBSD machines, or Linux machines, > or Solaris machines, with an advertised terminal type of "xterm". The > startup scripts of my shell on those machines never make any change to > the TERM environment variable. It all "just works(TM)". putty expects the remote system to be linux. that's why it does weird things with keyboard. you'll want to at least make backspace send ^H. -- begin 666 nonexistent.vbs FreeBSD 4.7-RC 8:32AM up 13 days, 15:47, 17 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.04, 0.06 end To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message