[olug] Minicom work with Cisco Console?

Dave Weis djweis at internetsolver.com
Sat Oct 21 13:31:19 UTC 2006


On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Charles Bird wrote:
> I've been trying to setup a few vlans at the house, I cannot get into the
> cisco5000 switch.
> I have, null modem cable, minicom@ 9600 8n1, all green lights on the
> switch meaning there is no indicated failures.
> I have cycled power a few times, reset the sup. card, looked in google for
> a total of 4 hours, and even rtfm.
> I'll be up all night working on this, if anyone has ideas, i would smile
> in response, I have no clue as to what i could try to establish
> communication with this thing. :(

Are you using a baby blue rollover cable to the console port? You 
shouldn't need an actual null modem cable.

Alternatively, put it in a big box and mail it over to me :-)

-- 
Dave Weis
djweis at internetsolver.com
http://www.internetsolver.com/




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