Thanks, Mike. I think I need to try the pingy-thingy, and also see what happens with the Linux approach. It feels (though this is a newbie talking) that I'm not understanding the serial setup on windows. Ben: don't worry about insulting me--at this point it can't happen! >Not to insult your intelligence, but did you hit enter a few times after the reboot? that should cause the login prompt to pop up. Yes --just about used a hammer several times around. :-( When I DID have the "cbos>" prompt it came right up after one tap of the ENTER key. No that I think of it, the only reason I got that far was when I put 10.0.0.1 into the gateway in TCP/IP configuration. gs ps -- Then the really big fishy just swam away! gs ********************** >can you ping the 675? (red faced) I ain't got no pinger on my windows side.... do I? >The 675 defaults to a 10.0.0.1 ip address on eth0. >If your machine doesn't fall into that subnet you won't be able to telnet to it. I think I'm headed over to Linux...... >You should be able to connect with Hyperterminal..... That's what I thought. I'm beginning to wonder if I'm not config/connecting the serial (com1) management line right. Hardware is connected right, but not the software... >I have run across several a 675 that has Telnet disabled until you set an exec password. I had set a password, used it in the process of logging to thw cbos prompt, then after the "en" [enabled] I was surprised that there was no password needed. >set hyperterm to run at 3840 8 N 1 No flow control... Yup, I've done that almost 20 times; .... [at least I think I did!] >If you find that your Cbos has been corrupted you need to reinstall it. Uhg! >The following is taken from Cisco on how to do this. Be warned if you screw this up... Well you know. Yes, I've "heard from the parrot" many times before. >BTW, if you need the CBOS 2.2 firmware let me know and I'll send it to you. Thanks; it had--and maybe still has-- 2.2 on it --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org