2501/2502 just hang

Apr 02, 2005 3 Replies

Greetings;



Bought two routers from eBay (...), and am unable to connect to either one of them using HyperTerminal or TerraTerm to issue a Ctrl+Break sequence key; For the 2501, once attempted to issue the command for ROMmon mode, the following is shown and frozen, and unable to type in anything (not accepting input):


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>> 2501:
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System Bootstrap, Version 5.2(8a), RELEASE SOFTWARE Copyright (c) 1986-1995 by cisco Systems


2500 processor with 8192 Kbytes of main memory

F3: 15405292+889440+952984 at 0x3000060 =FF Restricted Rights Legend



Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraph (c) of the Commercial Computer Software - Restricted Rights clause at FAR sec. 52.227-19 and subparagraph (c) (1) (ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at DFARS sec. 252.227-7013.



cisco Systems, Inc. 170 West Tasman Drive San Jose, California 95134-1706


Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software IOS (tm) 2500 Software (C2500-IS-L), Version 12.3(1a), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Copyright (c) 1986-2003 by cisco Systems, Inc. Compiled Fri 06-Jun-03 07:46 by dchih Image text-base: 0x0307F6E8, data-base: 0x00001000



cisco 2500 (68030) processor (revision F) with 8192K/2048K bytes of memory. Processor board ID 05262494, with hardware revision 00000000 Bridging software. X=2E25 software, Version 3.0.0.



1 Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
2 Serial network interface(s)
32K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
16384K bytes of processor board System flash (Read ONLY)


--- System Configuration Dialog ---



Would you like to enter the initial configuration dialog? [yes/no]:



The cursor blinks, but unable to accept any input.


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>> This is for the 2502:
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System Bootstrap, Version 5.2(5), RELEASE SOFTWARE Copyright (c) 1986-1994 by cisco Systems


2500 processor with 4096 Kbytes of main memory

F3: 3268680+81304+204996 at 0x3000060  Restricted Rights Legend



Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraph (c) of the Commercial Computer Software - Restricted Rights clause at FAR sec. 52.227-19 and subparagraph (c) (1) (ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at DFARS sec. 252.227-7013.



cisco Systems, Inc. 170 West Tasman Drive San Jose, California 95134-1706


Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software IOS (tm) 3000 Software (IGS-I-L), Version 11.0(4), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Copyright (c) 1986-1995 by cisco Systems, Inc. Compiled Mon 18-Dec-95 17:49 by alanyu Image text-base: 0x0301C8DC, data-base: 0x00001000



cisco 2500 (68030) processor (revision D) with 4092K/2048K bytes of memory. Processor board ID 02423674, with hardware revision 00000000 Bridging software. X=2E25 software, Version 2.0, NET2, BFE and GOSIP compliant.



1 Token Ring/IEEE 802.5 interface.
2 Serial network interfaces.
32K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
4096K bytes of processor board System flash (Read ONLY)


Press RETURN to get started!


%LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Serial0, changed state to down %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Serial1, changed state to down %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface TokenRing0, changed state to dow n %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Serial0, changed state to down %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Serial1, changed state to down %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from memory by console %SYS-5-RESTART: System restarted -- Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software IOS (tm) 3000 Software (IGS-I-L), Version 11.0(4), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Copyright (c) 1986-1995 by cisco Systems, Inc. Compiled Mon 18-Dec-95 17:49 by alanyu %LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface TokenRing0, changed state to administratively down



Just hags here..



The issue is, I do not see the terminal emulators to be pushing through my input, or there is a communication problem (serial) or a router problem (IOS size, memory full, fragments, etc...). What is the next step?



Please do advise, thank you.



Nick



What kind of cable are you using? Did you check or swap it?

The Cisco rolled Cat5 cable which came with the router. Cable is in perfect physical shape.

It seems the serial input port of the cisco is defective, or the serial output of your pc.

Connect pin 2 and 3 of your pc's serial port and see if you get an echo. Or try another system. Also disable hardware handshake in your terminal program.

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