From: Craig Columbus (Craig.Columbus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 12:08:16 GMT-3
Thanks to everyone who helped with this issue. As it turned out, something
strange had happened to the flash. The flash chips were replaced with
known-good chips and the problem went away. Live and learn!
Thanks again,
Craig
At 02:29 PM 3/5/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks for the top Sean. I found the article and it's the best lead so
>far. I'll test this afternoon.
>
>Thanks!
>Craig
>
>At 01:22 PM 3/5/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >Every so often we'll get in a 2501 router that'll not respond to teraterm,
> >CRT, hyperterm, etc. When we disable RTS/CTS - then we can get into the
> >router. Don't know the reason, my co-worker said he found some link on CCO
> >about it.
> >
> >Sean
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From:
> >To: ;
> >Cc: ;
> >Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 12:36 PM
> >Subject: RE: Stupid 2500 confreg question
> >
> >
> > > Try setting the flow control in Hyperterm to None, that should do the
> >trick.
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: MADMAN [mailto:dmadlan@qwest.com]
> > > Sent: 05 March 2002 16:46
> > > To: Craig Columbus
> > > Cc: cisco@groupstudy.com; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > > Subject: Re: Stupid 2500 confreg question
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes, a few times. Way back I hd that problem with hypeterm, switched
> > > to terterm and things worked better. I know have a couple of 2500's in
> > > the lab that I cannot talk to via the console but that otherwise work
> > > fine, I think they're just old and tired and I don't feeled inclined to
> > > spend much time trying to figure out why though you may want to stick a
> > > breakout box on the console and check the output.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > > Craig Columbus wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone run into an issue where a 2500 series router won't respond
>to
> > > > console input?
> > > > Here's the deal:
> > > > The PC is running 9600-8-N-1 and is connected to the 2500 console port.
> > > > The router has had nvram erased and is being booted for the first time.
> > > > Upon boot, the normal boot process is seen on the monitor screen.
> > > > When prompted to enter configuration dialogue, it's not possible to
> >input
> > > > anything on the router. Typing does nothing and there is no response
> >from
> > > > the router.
> > > > If Ctrl-F6-Break is pressed during boot, the router goes to the >
> >prompt,
> > > > but after that, the router still won't accept any input from the
>console
> > > port.
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone experienced this issue? Is this a config register problem?
> >If
> > > > so, is there a fix other than experimenting with different settings on
> >the
> > > > PC side? If not, does anyone have an answer? Could it be bad boot
>ROM?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Craig
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