Chapter 7: BIOS
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Serial Port Console Redirection
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COM 1 and SOL/COM 2
These two submenus allow the user to confi gure the following Console Redirection
settings for a COM Port selected by the user.
Console Redirection
Select Enabled to use a COM Port selected by the user for Console Redirection.
The options are
Enabled
and Disabled. The default setting for COM1 is
Disabled
,
and for COM2 is
Enabled
.
Console Redirection Settings
This feature allows the user to specify how the host computer will exchange data
with the client computer, which is the remote computer used by the user.
Terminal Type
This feature allows the user to select the target terminal emulation type for
Console Redirection. Select VT100 to use the ASCII Character set. Select
VT100+ to add color and function key support. Select ANSI to use the Extended
ASCII Character Set. Select VT-UTF8 to use UTF8 encoding to map Unicode
characters into one or more bytes. The options are
ANSI, VT100,
VT100+
, and
VT-UTF8.
Bits Per second
Use this feature to set the transmission speed for a serial port used in Console
Redirection. Make sure that the same speed is used in the host computer and
the client computer. A lower transmission speed may be required for long and
busy lines. The options are 9600, 19200, 57600 and
115200
(bits per second).
Data Bits
Use this feature to set the data transmission size for Console Redirection. The
options are 7 Bits and
8 Bits
.
Parity
A parity bit can be sent along with regular data bits to detect data transmission
errors. Select Even if the parity bit is set to 0, and the number of 1's in data bits
is even. Select Odd if the parity bit is set to 0, and the number of 1's in data bits
is odd. Select None if you do not want to send a parity bit with your data bits
in transmission. Select Mark to add a mark as a parity bit to be sent along with
the data bits. Select Space to add a Space as a parity bit to be sent with your
data bits. The options are
None
, Even, Odd, Mark and Space.
