catalyst 4503-e and 2960 CLI

Nov 04, 2008 2 Replies

Hi friends, I have a annoying problem that i'm no longer able to get to the "switch>" prompt by pressing "enter" when accessing the switch via console.



here is my putty output


---------------Some lines above were cutted------------------------------- ******** The system will autoboot now ********


config-register = 0x2101



Autobooting using the first file from bootflash.....


Rommon reg: 0xE2004180 ########### k2diags version 5.2_b



prod: WS-X4013+TS part: 73-9337-12 serial: JAE1230QA8C


Power-on-self-test for Module 1: WS-X4013+TS Port/Test Status: (. = Pass, F = Fail, U = Untested) Reset Reason: PowerUp


Cpu Subsystem Tests ... seeprom: . temperature_sensor: .



Port Traffic: L2 Serdes Loopback ... 0: . 1: . 2: . 3: . 4: . 5: . 6: . 7: . 8: . 9: . 10: .



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Port Traffic: L2 Asic Loopback ... 0: . 1: . 2: . 3: . 4: . 5: . 6: . 7: . 8: . 9: . 10: .



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Port Traffic: L3 Asic Loopback ... 0: . 1: . 2: . 3: . 4: . 5: . 6: . 7: . 8: . 9: . 10: .



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Switch Subsystem Memory ... 1: . 2: . 3: . 4: . 5: . 6: . 7: . 8: . 9: . 10: . 11: .



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Front Panel 10/100/1000 Ports ... 1: . 2: . 3: . 4: . 5: . 6: . 7: . 8: . 9: . 10: . 11: .



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Front Panel SFP Ports ...



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Module 1 Passed


Exiting to ios...



Rommon reg: 0xE2000180 ################################## 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 IOS Software, Catalyst 4500 L3 Switch Software (cat4500-IPBASE- M), Version 12.2(31)SGA7, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Technical Support:

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(c) 1986-2008 by Cisco Systems, Inc. Compiled Thu 29-May-08 19:06 by tinhuang Image text-base: 0x10000000, data-base: 0x114B20D0



Testing packet buffer memory:065536..done All packet buffers passed. cisco WS-C4503-E (MPC8245) processor (revision 4) with 262144K bytes of memory. Processor board ID SPE121200KU MPC8245 CPU at 267Mhz, Supervisor II+TS Last reset from PowerUp



1 Virtual Ethernet interface
48 FastEthernet interfaces
20 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
511K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.


Press RETURN to get started!


00:00:01: %C4K_IOSSYS-3-BLANKSTARTUPCONFIG: Blank or invalid startup- config, booting up with defaults
00:00:32: %SPANTREE-5-EXTENDED_SYSID: Extended SysId enabled for type vlan
00:00:34: %C4K_IOSMODPORTMAN-6-MODULEONLINE: Module 1 (WS-X4013+TS S/ N: JAE1230QA8C Hw: 1.8) is online
00:00:34: %C4K_IOSMODPORTMAN-6-MODULEONLINE: Module 2 (WS-X4148-RJ S/ N: JAE1232QUT1 Hw: 3.4) is online
00:00:53: %SYS-5-RESTART: System restarted -- Cisco IOS Software, Catalyst 4500 L3 Switch Software (cat4500-IPBASE- M), Version 12.2(31)SGA7, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Technical Support:
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On this stuation nothing seems to work wrong, ios seems to start normally, switch works correctly but i'm no longer able to get to the "switch>" prompt by pressing "enter" when accessing the switch via console.


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Well it would appear that your keypresses are not getting to the switch or are not being passed to the console process inside the switch.

Check you console cable, PC, etc. check software settings on terminal software. Handshaking? I always use "No Handshaking".

I don't suppose that your transmit and receive baud rate could be different? It is possible to set assymetric rates on routers I think.

It is possible that your supervisor card is broken but I have never seen that.

Why 0x2101 ? May be 0x2102 ?

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