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 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss