Nortel 2350 Installation And Basic Configuration Manual page 50

50 Installing and Connecting a WLAN—Security Switch
Figure 14. Serial Cable Installation
To connect a PC to the serial console port:
1
Insert the serial cable into the PC port as shown in
2
Insert the other end of the cable into the serial console port on the WSS as shown in
3
Start a standard VT100 terminal emulation application on the PC, and configure the following modem
settings:
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9600 bps
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8 bits
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1 stop
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No parity
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Hardware flow control off or disabled
4
Open a connection on a serial port.
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If the WSS is already powered on, press Enter three times to display a command prompt:
2370>
Go to
Note.
show a switch model (such as 2370) and the CLI access level (> for restricted
access or # for enabled access) only. The default command prompt on your WSS
shows your switch's model number and also contains the last three octets of the
switch's MAC address. For example, the default command prompt on an 2370
switch with MAC address 00:0B:0E:00:04:0A is 2370-00040A>.
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If a command prompt does not appear, go to
320656-A
Serial port Serial cable
step 4 in "Accessing the CLI" on page 80.
For simplicity, the command prompt examples in the documentation
Serial port on computer
Figure 14.
"Troubleshooting a Serial Management
Figure 14.
Connection".