Re: Cisco 1548M switch and Linux

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Author: Kevin
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Cisco 1548M switch and Linux
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 18:24, Michael Havens wrote:
> Well, my tweeking succeeded in changing most of the setting (it didn't like
> 'stopbits') so I had to manually put the one it didn't like in. But now what
> do I do? I open minicom and nothing happens. I've tried ttyS0 and ttyS1 yet
> still nothing happens. I even looked in minicom.cap to see if it put anything
> in there; that was to no avail!


minicom must be set to 9600bps, with 8-N-1. Then, you must plug in a
Cisco console cable and power up the switch.

Dorian already mentioned that these cables are available:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3704&item=5704841424

Or, you can make one:
http://www.kame.net/~suz/cisco-cable.html

With all that in place, you should see the boot screen appear when you
power up the switch.

...Kevin

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