[cisco-voip] USB Serial Adapter for Console Port

Eric Helm helmwork at ruraltel.net
Wed Mar 7 11:23:58 EST 2007



Adam wrote:
> I just sat here and spent the last couple of hours banging my head
> against a wall trying to work out why I couldn't break the boot
> sequence on a router to do a password reset when I finally discovered
> that it was my USB serial adapter (Belkin F5U109). Apparently this
> device is incapable of sending a break signal. As soon as I tried it
> from a desktop with a real serial port it worked just fine. Does
> anyone have a suggestion for a USB adapter that will work in this
> situation.

IOGear has worked perfectly for me in this situation. Nice small cable too.
http://www.iogear.com/main.php?loc=product&Item=GUC232A

/Eric


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