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Cisco 1240 Connected Grid Router Hardware Installation Guide
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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
.