HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Routine Management Tasks

CAUTION: Before attempting these procedures, please read the manuals
mentioned above. Turning off power to certain PCI slots can have disastrous effects;
for example if the PCI slot connects to an unmirrored root or swap disk, the system
will crash. Further, the I/O card itself needs to be checked for OL* functional
compatibility as well as compatibility to the specific PCI slot; for example, you
cannot insert a 33 MHz card to a slot running a 66 MHz bus.
• For general peripherals, see the manual Configuring HP-UX for Peripherals.
• See the HP-UX 11i Release Notes for the titles of documents that may be relevant
to installing peripherals. Such documents may contain specific information on the
software driver and the device special file for communication with particular
peripherals.
The easiest way to add peripherals is to run HP SMH or Partition Manager for
nPartition-able systems. However, you can also add peripherals using HP-UX
commands.
For HP-UX to communicate with a new peripheral device, you may need to reconfigure
your system’s kernel to add a new driver. If using HP-UX commands, use the
/usr/sbin/mk_kernel command (which HP SMH uses). For details, see
mk_kernel(1M), HP SMH online help, and HP-UX System Administrator’s Guide:
Configuration Management.
Setting Up Non-HP Terminals
For detailed information on setting up non-HP terminals, see Configuring HP-UX for
Peripherals.
To set up a user with a non-HP terminal, do the following:
1. Make sure the fileset NONHPTERM is on the system by using either of these methods:
• swlist -l fileset NonHP-Terminfo
If the fileset exists, the entry for NonHP-Terminfo.NONHPTERM will be
displayed.
• ll /var/adm/sw/products/NonHP-Terminfo
If the fileset exists, the directory
/var/adm/sw/products/NonHP-Terminfo/NONHPTERM will exist.
If the fileset is not on the system, you will need to load it from your latest HP-UX
media. See “Managing Software” (page 179) or the manual, Software Distributor
Administration Guide, for details.
2. Look in the directory /usr/share/lib/terminfo for a file that corresponds to
the terminal you want to set up. For example, suppose you want to set up a user
with a Wyse™ 100 terminal. All supported terminals whose names begin with w
are contained in the /usr/share/lib/terminfo/w directory. Because this
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