[PLUG] minicom direct connect

Ed Sawicki ed at alcpress.com
Wed Apr 3 22:53:49 UTC 2002


Yup. It works. The first time I tried it, I was connected to a broken
Cisco 678. That's why I asked the question. When I plugged in to the
working 678, it came right up at the usual 115 Kb/s rate. Thanks.

Ed



On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 13:55, Wil Cooley wrote:
> Also Sprach Ed Sawicki <ed at alcpress.com> on Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 01:50:45PM PST
> > I'm trying to use minicom to talk to the serial interface management
> > port on a few devices here, such as a Cisco 678, Astrocom CSU/DSU, etc.
> > It seems that minicom normally expects to talk to a modem that supports
> > the Hayes AT command set. What do I need to do to get it to talk to a
> > directly-connected device?
> 
> First of all, make sure you've got the right cable--Ciscos use a
> special "roll-over" cable.  To make it forego the AT initialization,
> edit the init strings and just remove it.  And make sure you set
> the comm parameters that the Cisco expects.
> 
> Wil
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