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connect cisco with an appropriate cable to the serial port of your linux machine, then use minicom (as user root), set it up as required &nbsp;and described in your cisco manuals.
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connect cisco with an appropriate cable to the serial port of your linux machine, then use minicom (as user root), set it up as required  and described in your cisco manuals.

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When I run Minicom, which I tried allready, it cannot find the modem it is looking for. &nbsp;How do I config Minicom to access the correct serial port?
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When I run Minicom, which I tried allready, it cannot find the modem it is looking for.  How do I config Minicom to access the correct serial port?

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if you run as root, you can configure while running, think it is<br />
&nbsp; Ctrl-A o and Ctrl-A p<br />
see man minicom for details
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if you run as root, you can configure while running, think it is
  Ctrl-A o and Ctrl-A p
see man minicom for details

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I need to connect into Cisco routers to change configs, etc, through a serial connection. &nbsp;I run RH 6.1 and would like to know how to accomplish this without re-booting into windows to use hyperterminal.
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I need to connect into Cisco routers to change configs, etc, through a serial connection.  I run RH 6.1 and would like to know how to accomplish this without re-booting into windows to use hyperterminal.

Serial Console

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