Cisco console connection in Linux

[Bluecrack]

I've been trying to get my IBM Thinkpad A22 laptop to connect to a Cisco 2621 console port via my serial port. I am having no luck at all. Minicom is a complete pain to deal with and is not working.

Does anybody have an easy way to access Cisco equipment console ports via the serial port of a PC running Linux?

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Bluecrack

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Apart from minicom, there is another serial terminal emualtor you might want to try - microcom from -->

http://microcom.port5.com/

. An X11 client is seyon - ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/serialcomm/dialout/ . you'll have to compile teh sourde, incidenatlly. See also the serial howto ....

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html

Regards

 

[MrTom]

only used minicom.

if you get up the minicom menu you need to change

Modem and dialing-->InitString

press A to change it then make it empty.

also in Serial port setup-->Bps/Par/Bits set it to 9600 8N1

and then "Save setup as dfl". all the other default settings are ok, well at least they were with debian minicom.