[Trinux-talk] AS/400 function keys problem

[Projet G. <pro...@sm...>]

Hi,

First of all, I'd like to thank the people involved in the Trinux project, 
especially Matthew Franz.

I've got a project using Trinux to turn old P75 without CDRom players into 
diskless workstations. Trinux uses DHCP to get a network configuration, then 
loads ssh from web through ftp. A script starts a ssh session on a Mandrake 
9.1 box and a tn5250 (http://tn5250.sourceforge.net) session is automatically 
started. So I get an access to the AS/400 from anywhere in the company thanks 
to a single floppy.

The problem is that AS/400 dump stations are using function keys from F1 to 
F24. I use F1 up to F12 straight from the keyboard, and shift F1 to shift F8 
to get access to F13-F20 but it's like F21-F24 are disabled.

My key map works great on Mandrake but doesn't on Trinux. I've been told that 
it could come from the termcap/terminfo configuration. I have added a termcap 
definition dedicated to tn5250 on the etc/termcap file and made a copy of 
/usr/share/terminfo/5/5250 from Mandrake to Trinux. I finally set the 
terminal configuration with $ export TERM=5250 but nothing happend. I think I 
should compile this but there's no tic command on Trinux.

So, how am I supposed to enable those function keys?

Cheers,

Mathieu