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On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 08:51:00AM +0200, Gonzalo Aguilera wrote:
>     Thanks for your answer James, a direct cable console is a 5250 emulation
> connected through a serial port to an iSeries. It is needed for clean
> installations of the operating system or when tcp fails...

I looked at this once. The interface to the AS/400's console port is a
nonstandard, extended serial IP link (dunno if it's SLIP or PPP) from IBM's
software in the PC acting as console to the AS/400's LIC (the middleware
that makes a PowerPC act like an AS/400). While the terminal data is most
likely tn5250, there's much more there. The interface is considered internal
and proprietary to IBM. It's very much a moving target, and totally
undocumented.

It might be possible, with enough work, to add a layer (it'd have to be a
network driver) to Linux that tn5250 could use; that work would likely have
to be substantially redone with every OS/400 release.

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