Cisco Usb Console Driver

6/14/2018
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Cisco Mini Usb Driver

For years I have been wondering when Cisco would activate the USB ports on their devices. I have been hoping for all kinds of USB functionality to routers, switches, firewalls but Cisco has been slow to unlock the power of these USB ports. Wouldn't it be cool if you could connect the myriad of USB devices to a Cisco router to further the list of amazing things you could do?

USB to Cisco RJ45 Console cables. Connect directly from the USB port on your PC or Mac to the Cisco RJ45 Console port. Drivers built into Windows 7/8 and Mac OSX. More about Cisco's USB Console Port This past fall. Searching the Cisco site, you will want to search for “Cisco Windows USB console driver”.

The Human Abstract Mea Culpa Download Firefox here. Cisco has started to put mini-USB ports on their devices to allow for console port connectivity. I am hoping that this new method continues to be spread to other devices. I also hope that Cisco will enable all of the USB Type-A ports on their other devices for similar connectivity. For years I have hauled around two console cable sets. Because I often connect to multiple devices at the same time, such as redundant supervisors on 6500s or to two supervisors in redundant 6500s or VSS, I need two serial cables. Here is a picture of one of my typical USB cables.

I use a USB to serial adapter. I realize that this is expensive but it is the most reliable and its driver seems universally accepted by laptop operating systems. Note that the end on the light-blue console cable has been replaced and a yellow boot added because of excessive wear. You know you have logged into a lot of Cisco routers when you wear out the RJ-45 connector on the end of your favorite console cable. Cisco has now given us the ability to connect our laptops to the USB ports for console access. Cisco has added USB Type-B ports to their devices and these ports can be used as a console cable. You will need three things to get this working.

1) A device that uses this type of USB Type-B port 2) A USB Type A to 5-pin mini Type-B cable 3) A driver from Cisco to make this work with your laptop operating system You still need to install a on your laptop to use the USB interface as a serial communications port. Don't worry that this shows the download location for 3900 ISR G2 routers. The same utility works for the entire ISR-G2 line. The latest version of the USB Console Software is version 3.1 The filename of the software is 'Cisco_usbconsole_driver_3_1.zip' and the current version was release on Jan 20, 2010 with a file size of 14692.83 KB (15045453 bytes).

Currently, Cisco has USB console drivers for the following operating systems: • Windows 2000, Windows XP 32- and 64-bit, Windows Vista 32- and 64-bit • Mac OS X version 10.5.4 • Redhat / Fedora Core 10 with kernel 2.6.27.5-117 • Ubuntu 8.10 with kernel 2.6.27-11 • Debian 5.0 with kernel 2.6 • Suse 11. Karaoke Revolution Party Rapidshare Download more. 1 with kernel 2.6.27.7-9 Once you install the driver you need to create a connection using your favorite terminal emulation software. My favorite one happens to be from VanDyke. You need to set the terminal emulator to use the proper COM port that is being used by the USB port on your laptop.

Then you set the serial communications to the old-reliable standard: 9600 baud, 8 data bits, no parity, and 1 stop bit, no flow control. However, I have been told that these console ports can be run up to 12Mbps but the baud rate of the serial port can only go as high as 115,200 bps.