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co_g30 2007-04-29 11:25
Re: Cisco Console Cable and N800?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by iball (Post 46317)
Cisco and their damnable proprietary cables. And their IOS.
Ditch the Cisco switches and go with Foundry ;)
We've replaced Cisco at my workplace with nothing but Foundry. The only things left that are Cisco are the ATM switches and the routers.
OSPF FTW!

Anyhoo, try this one.
It's only $99. Should work. I'd do it as well but all wireless protocols not approved by the NSA for us to use are banned at my workplace. The only BT device we can even think of using is a special encrypted version that RIM made for their Blackberry BT smartcard sleds.
yeah, not that big a fan of cisco but it's a cisco shop that I am in.

the never stuff uses rj45 connectors for console management so still stuck with using a usb-to-serial converter that then hooks to a cisco cable.

loudog 2007-05-02 17:20
Re: Cisco Console Cable and N800?
 
As someone who works on a *lot* of Cisco gear, I've found this to be a very valuable tool:
http://www.blueconsole.com/
It pulls power off of the handshake lines on the routers; switches don't have them, so you just snap a 9v battery on the end and you're good to go. It's small, light and simple. Works great on my PC (thinkpad running OpenSuse 10.2). I haven't had time to get it going on the N800 yet, but it should work. Anybody got a copy of minicom floating around?

-- Loudog

aleksandyr 2007-05-02 17:59
Re: Cisco Console Cable and N800?
 
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Ask and ye shall receive:

Naive build from Ubuntu Feisty sources.

My N800 is still quite dead. Let me know if it works :)

co_g30 2007-09-27 21:18
Re: Cisco Console Cable and N800?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by loudog (Post 46787)
As someone who works on a *lot* of Cisco gear, I've found this to be a very valuable tool:
http://www.blueconsole.com/
It pulls power off of the handshake lines on the routers; switches don't have them, so you just snap a 9v battery on the end and you're good to go. It's small, light and simple. Works great on my PC (thinkpad running OpenSuse 10.2). I haven't had time to get it going on the N800 yet, but it should work. Anybody got a copy of minicom floating around?

-- Loudog
Loudog, did you ever get a chance to try this out on your N800? Was it minicom you ended up using for cli or something else?

co_g30

brendan 2007-09-27 22:29
Re: Cisco Console Cable and N800?
 
minicom is an incompatible package with the n800. i have the newest firmware on it, and i cant install the .deb


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