[cisco-voip] new cisco usb console cable

[Lelio Fulgenzi]

the docs say something like the usb port can do 112000 bps where the console cable can only do 9600. i'll have to read it again and do a test later. 

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug McIntyre" <merlyn at Geeks.ORG> 
To: "cisco-voip voyp list" <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net> 
Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2010 11:37:34 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] new cisco usb console cable 

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 05:12:20PM -0500, Lelio Fulgenzi wrote: 
> oh my. 
> 
> so i bought a couple of 3900s and decided to get the USB console cable. 
> what a production to get it to work. 
> ??? have to download the software from CCO 
> ??? have to install the software 
> ??? have to look into your hardware listing to see the com port number it assigned 
> ??? if you plug in the cable to a different USB port you have to reinstall the software (windows will do this automatically, but it still asks you) 
> 
> right now, the only advantage to a pure USB console cable over a USB-serial adapter is that perhaps you can upload software to the router faster than a serial cable. 


Highly doubtful. The USB console *is* a serial dongle. Its just that 
they moved the dongle into the router itself, so you only have to have 
the USB cable instead of a USB cable attached to a dongle. 

I don't have a new router to see what the actual chip is, most likely one 
of the standard ones, since Linux/OSX apparently ship with the drivers already. 

Your frustration points sound an aweful alot like the PL-232 chip 
driver though, so I'd assume that chip is used. Its used in 50-60% of 
the USB serial dongles out there already anyway. 
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