I just got three used 2501 Cisco routers and am trying to connect to through the console. I had a RJ-45/DB9 cable hooked up, fired up Hyperterminal, and turned on the router. I see all the bootstrap messages but it does not respond to any of my keystrokes. I've tried each router thinking the first one may have just been defective, but they all do the same thing. My settings in Hyperterminal were 9600-8-n-1. I tried it with XON/XOFF, Hardware, and NO flow control but nothing worked. My current thought is that there is still some Hyperterminal setting I need to change or there is something wrong with my consle cable (but then why can I see the router output?). I'll paste the Bootstrap below. I hope someone can help.
Thanks.
------------------ System Bootstrap, Version 11.0(10c)XB1, PLATFORM SPECIFIC RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1986-1997 by cisco Systems
2500 processor with 16384 Kbytes of main memory
F3: 9286440+846656+770252 at 0x3000060
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cisco Systems, Inc. 170 West Tasman Drive San Jose, California 95134-1706
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software IOS (tm) 2500 Software (C2500-IO-L), Version 12.2(26), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2) Copyright (c) 1986-2004 by cisco Systems, Inc. Compiled Sat 31-Jul-04 03:32 by eaarmas Image text-base: 0x03050A44, data-base: 0x00001000
cisco 2500 (68030) processor (revision A) with 16384K/2048K bytes of memory. Processor board ID 01432873, with hardware revision 00000000 Bridging software. X.25 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)
Press RETURN to get started!
00:00:07: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Ethernet0, changed state to up
00:00:07: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Serial0, changed state to down
00:00:08: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Serial1, changed state to down
00:00:18: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Ethernet0, changed sta te to down
00:00:20: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from memory by console
00:00:23: %LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface Serial0, changed state to administratively down
00:00:23: %LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface Serial1, changed state to administratively down
00:00:26: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Serial0, changed state to down
00:00:26: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Serial1, changed state to down
00:01:04: %SYS-5-RESTART: System restarted -- Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software IOS (tm) 2500 Software (C2500-IO-L), Version 12.2(26), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2) Copyright (c) 1986-2004 by cisco Systems, Inc. Compiled Sat 31-Jul-04 03:32 by eaarmas
00:01:04: %SNMP-5-COLDSTART: SNMP agent on host Router is undergoing a cold star t