> On 5/6/2010 3:19 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> >>> Try this >>> >>> Bits per second: 115200 (or try 9600) >>> Data bits: 8 >>> Parity: None >>> Submit >>> Stop bits: 1 >>> Flow control: None >>> >> Thanks - yeah, I saw that in the manual, and online, saw the 9600, did >> that, no joy at all. Just sits there at a blank screen. Btw, about flow >> control: h/w?s/w? Those are my two options in minicom. >> >> Meanwhile, on the switch (ssh'ing in, but I need to get the serial port >> working so I can get a newer version of the firmware there (what's there >> is *ancient*), show console reports flow control as xon/xoff.... > > F - Hardware Flow Control : No > G - Software Flow Control : No *sigh* Oh, and add a linefeed, per the online (not in doc) instructions, and still no joy, it just sits there. I do know, btw, that the cable's good - it's a straight through - since another admin uses this cable from this server to go to her L2 controller on the big (older) SGI cluster. mark