You are probably trying to use native mode. Need to switch it to java mode. On Jun 13, 2013 11:47 PM, "gregrwm" <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote: > sounds plausible for drac5 too.. from whence do you download that jnlp > file? perhaps it "offers" for you to download it? the way it (doesn't) > work for me is when i click the "Console" tab it shows a spinning hourglass > image followed by "Loading the Console Redirection Plug-in...", but nothing > further happens. > > > On 13 June 2013 21:16, Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote: > >> Does the drac5 run a full webserver and you're just trying to get to the >> console? I've got a drac7 and to launch the console app I get a jnlp file, >> which is for java webstart. I've been unable to get it to work directly >> from my browser, so what I do is download the jnlp file and then execute >> javaws <filename> and it works as long as I don't wait longer than 30 >> seconds to execute it because the login credentials timeout. >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 8:40 PM, gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote: >> >>> does anybody connect to dell drac5 from ubuntu firefox? what's the >>> trick? >>> >>> >>> http://projects.nuschkys.net/2011/08/11/dell-dracremote-console-discoveries/ >>> >>> the above page suggests that ubuntu's icetea java plugin needs to be >>> substituted by the sun java plugin. but i can't find any sun java plugin >>> in the raring repos. perhaps i should be looking somewhere else? or >>> falling back to an earlier ubuntu? where/which? >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130613/9f008783/attachment.html>