[olug] Minicom work with Cisco Console?

[Charles Bird]

> 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. :(
>
> You don't need a Catalyst 5000 POS^h^h^hmonster to do a few VLANs.
>
> I use a 2912XL-EN and a 2950-12. Quieter and sucks less power ;)  Not as
> many ports, but very few people need 96 10baseT ports at home ;)

Its already noisey, and getting noiser and warmer every month :)
we need the 96 ports and these are 10/100 BASE TX modules.

> In fact, I would recommend *not* to use a 5000-series. IIRC Catalyst
> 5000s are ISL only, the only things you'll be able to do VLANs with it
> are older Cisco routers and older Cisco switches.

Well thats sh*tty. I'll have to venture on and see.

> BTW you do *not* use null modem cables with Cisco gear.

Got it :)

> A Catalyst 5000 needs - quite literally - a plain ol' modem cable. One
> of these will work:
> http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=14303
>
> And yes, minicom does work. I usually use kermit though.
>
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>
> Phil Brutsche
> phil at brutsche.us
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