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Centurion030

Hi all,

I need to access my Cisco gear via the console port. With WinXP Pro/Win2003, this was though PuTTY or HyperTerm. I know I need to setup my inittab for this. I need mostly pointers on how to do this. I can provide screen shots and command results to help out.

Regards,

James
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Systems:
Dual-boot Solaris 10 x86 and OCE 4.5 (Desktop)
OCE 4.5 with WinXP Pro on VirtualBox(Dell Inspiron 8200)
Panasonic KX-P7110 as the network printer.
Cisco 2924/2912, 2610,2620,2611
Win2003 Server

Cloudy Wizzard · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:13 am Post subject:

I think you just use telnet

Centurion030 · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:07 pm Post subject:

Hi!

Telnet won't work. I need plain serial 9600 8N1 access to get to the Cisco console ports. Here are some results on my system:

xandroslaptop:~# dmesg | grep tty
[ 28.369286] console [tty0] enabled

xandroslaptop:/dev# ls -al | grep -i tty
crw------- 1 root tty 5, 1 2009-02-09 19:43 console
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 2 2009-02-09 19:55 ptmx
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 0 2009-02-09 19:42 tty
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-02-09 14:42 tty0 -> vc/0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-02-09 14:42 tty1 -> vc/1

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-02-09 14:42 tty2 -> vc/2

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-02-09 14:42 tty3 -> vc/3

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-02-09 14:42 tty4 -> vc/4

xandroslaptop:/dev# dmesg | grep ttyS
xandroslaptop:/dev#

I can run cutecom, but when I try to open the device: /dev/ttyS0 I get an error. From what I am looking at, is my system not even recognizing the built-in serial port of the laptop?

Regards,

James
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Systems:
Dual-boot Solaris 10 x86 and OCE 4.5 (Desktop)
OCE 4.5 with WinXP Pro on VirtualBox(Dell Inspiron 8200)
Panasonic KX-P7110 as the network printer.
Cisco 2924/2912, 2610,2620,2611
Win2003 Server

russoje · Xplorer Joined: 03 Jul 2006 Posts: 59

I think minicom is what your looking for.

Centurion030 · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:39 pm Post subject:

I do have minicom installed-and alot of other terminal emulators including PuTTY for Linux and Win (under Wine).

However, the serial port is not listed. My laptop has a 16550C UART. What do I need to do to enable this?

I did download serial-5.05.tar.gz but I have not extracted or installed it yet.

Regards,

James
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Systems:
Dual-boot Solaris 10 x86 and OCE 4.5 (Desktop)
OCE 4.5 with WinXP Pro on VirtualBox(Dell Inspiron 8200)
Panasonic KX-P7110 as the network printer.
Cisco 2924/2912, 2610,2620,2611
Win2003 Server

jimallyn · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:35 am Post subject:

There's a console program called setserial that is used to enable and set up the serial ports. I don't know a thing about it, but maybe you can view the manual for it and perhaps figure it out. In a console, type 'info setserial' or 'man setserial'. Sorry I can't be of more assistance than that. Oh, it is sometimes possible to disable to the serial ports and other hardware in the BIOS setup. Make sure you haven't disabled the serial port.
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Centurion030 · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:45 pm Post subject:

Hi Jim,

Thanks for the advice. It seems my system is not even showing the COM ports-ditto for my desktop setup.

I get this when I try setserail:

xandroslaptop:~# setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0x3f8 irq4 uart 16550A skip_test
/dev/ttyS0: No such file or directory

The BIOS does have COM1 enabled.

Any hints?

Regards,

James
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Systems:
Dual-boot Solaris 10 x86 and OCE 4.5 (Desktop)
OCE 4.5 with WinXP Pro on VirtualBox(Dell Inspiron 8200)
Panasonic KX-P7110 as the network printer.
Cisco 2924/2912, 2610,2620,2611
Win2003 Server

jimallyn · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:52 pm Post subject:

Doctore · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:54 am Post subject:

Did some comparision (with the same hardware).
Serial ports are recognized in "XD 4.2" (2.6.18SMP),
but not in "XD 4.5" (2.6.24SMP). Could it be a bug,
or is it done by purpose?

Try to ask "Xandros Support" about this issue:
http://support.xandros.com/support_terms.php
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Centurion030 · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:11 am Post subject:

That may explain everything.

I did send a support request about this.

More to come...

James
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Systems:
Dual-boot Solaris 10 x86 and OCE 4.5 (Desktop)
OCE 4.5 with WinXP Pro on VirtualBox(Dell Inspiron 8200)
Panasonic KX-P7110 as the network printer.
Cisco 2924/2912, 2610,2620,2611
Win2003 Server

Centurion030 · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 11:12 am Post subject:

So much for that.....

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Systems:
Dual-boot Solaris 10 x86 and OCE 4.5 (Desktop)
OCE 4.5 with WinXP Pro on VirtualBox(Dell Inspiron 8200)
Panasonic KX-P7110 as the network printer.
Cisco 2924/2912, 2610,2620,2611
Win2003 Server

Centurion030 · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:40 pm Post subject:

Resolved with a CablestoGo USB to Serial adapter, model#26886.

James
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Systems:
Dual-boot Solaris 10 x86 and OCE 4.5 (Desktop)
OCE 4.5 with WinXP Pro on VirtualBox(Dell Inspiron 8200)
Panasonic KX-P7110 as the network printer.
Cisco 2924/2912, 2610,2620,2611
Win2003 Server