Cisco 1240 - Appendix A Starting a Router Terminal Session; Connecting to the Console Port with Linux

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Appendix A Starting a Router Terminal Session
Connecting to the Console Port with Linux
To Disconnect the OS X USB Console from the Terminal Window
Enter Ctrl+A followed by Ctrl+\
Connecting to the Console Port with Linux
To connect a Linux system USB port to the console using the built-in Linux Terminal utility, follow these
steps:
Step 1 Open the Linux Terminal window.
Step 2 Connect the Linux USB port to the router.
Step 3 Enter the following commands to find the Linux USB port number:
root@usb-suse# cd /dev
root@usb-suse /dev# ls -ltr *ACM*
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 188, 0 Jan 14 18:02 ttyACM0
root@usb-suse /dev#
Step 4 Connect to the USB port with the following command followed by the router USB port speed:
root@usb-suse /dev# screen /dev/ttyACM0 9600
To Disconnect the Linux USB Console from the Terminal Window
Enter Ctrl+A followed by :, then type quit.