[PLUG] (serial) terminal condition
Pluimer, Randal T
randal.t.pluimer at intel.com
Wed Nov 20 22:58:07 UTC 2002
Most comm/management ports require specific baud/n81/flow control settings
before they will respond. Are these set correctly?
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeme A Brelin [mailto:jeme at brelin.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 2:38 PM
To: PLUG
Subject: [PLUG] (serial) terminal condition
Hi.
Some of y'all helped me a week or so ago when I needed to wire a serial
cable for an old(ish) ethernet switch to get to the management console.
Well, for some reason or other, it didn't work.
I'm pretty sure I wired the cable up properly (everything straight through
except TxD->RxD & RxD->TxD... should something else be crossed over,
too? Maybe RTS->CTS? I have no idea), but neither minicom nor
hypterterminal gave me any output at all when I powered up the device and
repeatedly struck the enter key (as the manual suggests).
Does anyone have some reasonable steps I can go through to troubleshoot
this?
Would anyone here have and let me borrow a VT100 terminal that definitely
works so I can at least reduce it to cable/switch (rather than software
configuration) problems?
Any help appreciated.
J.
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