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I achieved my CCNA recently and I bought one of these routers because it ticked all the boxes I wanted for a home router that wasn't insanely expensive. I'm trying to connect to it via the console port with a usb-serial cable but nothing comes up. I...
I did the initial setup through the web config and It looks like this console port was installed just for show. I can't get into the CLI from a terminal emulator no matter what settings I try. The only way I have been able to get anything to show up ...
Yup this is a new device that I purchased off of Amazon. I can't disconnect my current router right now but i'll try to do the initial config through the GUI and then see if I can access the CLI afterward.
That doesn't make any sense. What is the point of putting a console port on a Cisco router if you have to set it up through a GUI first? I would like to configure this router through the CLI.
When I try those settings I get a bunch of garbled data. If I set the speed to 115200 thought it do actually see it booting up and then it stops at this line:Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
