[olug] Terminal Settings for Catalyst Routers

[Shawn Mattingly]

Try using a straight-through cable instead of the light blue "rolled" 
cable you get from cisco with the rj-45-to-serial adapter.  I had to do 
this on my Cat5000 Supervisor III and it is almost the same vintage.

Shawn

Dan Clough wrote:
> I've got a Cisco Catalyst 4006 (Supervisor II) that doesn't want to play
> nice with any terminals I've hooked up to it.  Upon firing up the switch
> with <insert terminal here> attached to the console port, it outputs all the
> expected data and boots up normally.  What's not normal, however, is that
> the switch won't accept any input from the terminal.  No Ctrl-C to prevent
> autoboot, no break signal, nothing.
>
>  
>
> I've tried 4 other Supervisor II cards, all of which do the same exact
> thing.  Numerous posts on the internets have cited improper terminal
> emulation/terminal settings as the culprit (and yet made no hints as to the
> proper setting -  Joyous!), and explicitly said that the switch is not at
> fault.  Jay and I spent about 45 minutes at RTU tinkering with a Wyse 325
> trying to find the right terminal setting, but nothing worked.
>
>  
>
> I've tried a dumb Wyse 325, minicom on 3 separate Linux boxen, HyperTerminal
> on  M$ Windows 2000 and PuTTY's Serial setting.  I've been googling and
> tinkering for the past 24 hours so I think it's time to tap into the
> limitless power of the community.  Can anybody shed any light on the
> situation?
>
>  
>
> Dan
>
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