[CentOS] was, Resolving dependencies from the command-line, is ProCurve switch

[Les Mikesell]

On 5/6/2010 2:43 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Joseph wrote:
>>> Meanwhile, on the switch (ssh'ing in, but I need to get the serial port
>>> working so I can get a newer version of the firmware there (what's there
>>> is *ancient*), show console reports flow control as xon/xoff....
>>
>> If you have ssh access, why are you trying to use a serial console for
>> firmware updates? If its old, there is a supported interim path to bring
>> it current via tftp using ssh?
>
> Because I was trying to avoid setting up a tftp server. Because it
> *should* have been no big deal. As it was, for some reason, it used to get
> its IP via dhcp, then it lost it, and I had to set up a dhcpd *server*,
> because the main ones don't allow bootp (so why it suddenly couldn't get
> it, I have no clue), and *then* I could get in and manually give it an IP,
> and *then* I could telnet in (and fire up the ssh access, and turn down
> the telnet access), and I'd *really* like to upgrade the firmware, which
> one hopes will have something higher than SSL level 1....
>
> Yeah, it's been one of those where it keeps being one problem inside another.
>
> Oh, and yum doesn't see a package kermit, or ckermit, and running kermit
> inside minicom, maybe for that reason (dunno if they have kermit emulation
> built into minicom) doesn't seem to do anything.
>

I forgot ckermit was dropped between Centos4 and 5.  You could compile 
from source, but enabling tftp is probably easier - and you might have a 
broken serial port anyway...

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   Les Mikesell
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