Think I have this mostly figured out. I just tore the system apart and reseated the 2 DRAC cables. Rebooted and now my keyboard works! I should have been tipped off because before my text was like a greenish color, but after the reseat it is a typical white font like if I had a monitor hooked up to the machine. So from Firefox 27 on Linux Mint 16 with Java 7, I can run the Java console and it seems to work fine. The virtual media still does not seem to work. I get an error when launching it. It does launch on my Windows 7 client though.
Good day, I am trying to access the console and virtual media features of a PE2950iii server with a Drac 5 with latest 1.65 firmware from a Linux Mint client running Firefox 27. I had no luck whatsoever with the plugin and am now trying the java applet. Using the java applet I can successfully open a virtual console and see what is on the screen, however, it does not respond to any of my keystrokes (or macro keystrokes from the menu). Trying to launch the virtual media java applet is worse as that does not even start. I get the following error:
Drac 5 console and virtual media not working from Firefox on Linux