Hello All, I have recently come into my possession a Cisco Catalyst 5002 Switch. This switch has both the Supervisor engine card and a 24 port switching card. My question is the system seems to boot up fine (i don't have a 25 pin to 9 pin adapter cable) except for one thing. It doesn't seem to be doing any switching and the supervisor engine status light stays red but all of the other lights are all green. Any ideas ?
can you nab your self a console cable from anywhere and log into it over hyperterminal? other than that, there is no real way to see what is going on.
here's the problem. 1. I have a console roll over cable 2. i have a 9 pin serial console cable the problem is this routers supervisor card has a 25 pin console port and do not have 2 rj-45 -> serial adapters or any computers with a 25 pin serial port i was hoping that we had something at my workplace but i guess not. So i guess i am off to the closest networking store to pick one up (i hope they have one for 9 pin serial.
You could always try to make a cable yourself if you can find pinouts on the internet, it's what I have always done.
I could except that i don't have the parts like the rj-45 jack or the db-25 connector. The store that would have them would also have the adapter.
lots of parallel port except cisco consoles are serial last time i checked. I also have gotten my hands on another rj-45 to 25 pin and a 25 pin to 9 pin adapter. I am hoping this would work. But if in the end it's borked i am fine with it since i only paid $19.50 CAD for it
All cisco kit of a certain age came with a little bag with a rollover cable and three headshells in it - these days you're lucky to just get the moulded DB9-RJ45 cable. Anyhow, sticking the rollover cable and two of the headshells together gave you the connection you need for the Cat5000 supervisors and you can find all the pinout information on ciscos website at http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/701/14.html From memory I think it's wired as a DCE so if not using the cisco cables you'd basically need a 9 to 25 way straight through cable like you'd use to connect to a modem with terminal speed 9600, no parity, 1 stop bit. The red led means it has failed one of its startup tests so once you're connected you should be able to see from the diagnostics which test has failed. HTH J
Thanks, i actually own a satin rollover cable so now it's just a matter of connecting it up with 2 rj-45 to db25 adapters
I was finally able to get into it this is the result of running the show module command. Weird thing is this is the only place where it shows faulty all of the tests i run don't show anything wrong and it does switching and what not fine. Any ideas ? omicron> (enable) show module Mod Module-Name Ports Module-Type Model Serial-Num Status --- ------------------- ----- --------------------- --------- --------- ------ 1 2 100BaseTX Supervisor WS-X5009 005524620 faulty 2 24 10/100BaseTX Ethernet WS-X5225R 008950780 ok Mod MAC-Address(es) Hw Fw Sw --- -------------------------------------- ------ ---------- ----------------- 1 00-10-54-a9-b0-00 to 00-10-54-a9-b3-ff 2.3 2.2(2) 4.5(13a) 2 00-10-7b-8b-9d-08 to 00-10-7b-8b-9d-1f 1.1 4.1(1) 4.5(13a) A bit of an update i found what was failing . something to do with the 12v system. Not sure what that powers. but it says PS (12v) F (failed)
