dellmgr on Debian Sarge ?

[Léonard Wauters]

Hello,

I use the following script (shipped in the rpm package, it seems) to
launch dellmgr :


#!/bin/sh


# Script to execute the "dellmgr.bin" binary for LINUX ONLY
# This script opens a node at run time. It gets the major
# no of the megadev and then opens a node with the major number.
# If the node is already present, it removes the node first
# and then creates a fresh node.


# Get the major number of the megadev ioctl node
MAJOR=`grep megadev /proc/devices|awk '{print $1}'`

if [ ! x$MAJOR = x ]
then
        # major device number found
        rm -f /dev/megadev0     # remove if already there, ignore if not.
        mknod /dev/megadev0  c $MAJOR 0
fi

# Execute the dellmgr binary
# RedHat 8.0 specific changes since 10-03-02: Timir/Amit as unicode is
default
# on RH8.0 release
#------------
if [ `/sbin/consoletype` = vt ]
then
  grep unicode_start /etc/profile.d/lang.sh && unicode_stop && setfont
fi

OLD_TERM=$TERM
case  $TERM in
     "xterm" | "linux")
        ;;
     *) export TERM=linux;;
esac

# Execute dellmgr code
/usr/sbin/dellmgr.bin

# RedHat 8.0 specific changes since 10-03-02: Timir/Amit
#   Restore bad things we did in our way
#------------
export TERM=$OLD_TERM
if [ `/sbin/consoletype` = vt ]
then
  grep unicode_start /etc/profile.d/lang.sh && unicode_start && setfont
fi
# clear the screen to avoid the unwanted message display which
# appears on the screen otherwise : 10-25-2002 : amitp

clear
clear


Maybe it will help to solve some of the problems you are confronted with.

Léo.


Gunnar Krull wrote:

>On Monday 31 July 2006 16:25, Terry Gliedt wrote:
>  
>
>>Léonard Wauters wrote:
>> > Dellmgr is statically linked, so it doesn't require any special package.
>> > That's why making a .deb is quite easy, and even more a good exercice I
>> > think...
>> > We have made a special .deb in my company for dellmgr, and we hav no
>> > problems on using it.
>>
>>Léo was correct, making the Debian package was trivial. The only dellmgr
>>I could find at support.dell.com is 5.22 (from over 4 years ago). Has
>>anyone seen a more recent version?
>>    
>>
>
>I'm using dellmgr from the "perc-cerc-apps-6.03-A06" package. This includes a 
>rpm packet with version 5.31 (Oct 08, 2003). Don't now if this is the most 
>recent version.
>You can also use alien to convert the rpm to deb.
>
>
>  
>
>>When I invoke dellmgr.bin I get a curses screen of garbled characters.
>>This is surely a messed up font (I ran it in an XTERM). Anyone know how
>>to make dellmgr show legible characters ?  TIA
>>    
>>
>
>The characters are ok on my systems. Debian Sarge with TERM=xterm, LANG=POSIX.
>
>Gunnar
>
>
>
>
>  
>
>> >>> Terry Gliedt wrote:
>> >>>> Our several dozen Dell machines are running Debian Sarge and I'd
>> >>>> really like to get dellmgr and the like to run without booting to a
>> >>>> DOS floppy. We are running a standard 2.6.15 kernel. Has anyone made
>> >>>> this sort of software available - or had experience getting things
>> >>>> to work from a running Linux system (even Debian unstable??)   TIA
>>    
>>
>
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