Hello everyone, I have been silent for a long time, since only now I have all the components necessary to start dipping my toes in this field.
I had bought myself a 2nd hand FCX648S-HPOE off eBay (I only needed 24 POE ports, however this was cheaper, including shipping to my country) last year, though I only managed to get myself an RS232 add-on board (not PCIe, just direct to the serial connector on the motherboard) from a dead Lenovo slim PC a month or two ago, and an RS232 cable a few days ago.
I use Solus on my desktop (dying AsRock H97M, in a few weeks I should have the money to order a 2nd hand ASUS H97 Pro Gamer off AliExpress), and it does use /dev/ttySx, however I am unable to get any terminal output off my switch with PicoCom.
Being the rookie I am, I have tried looking through the manuals and documentation (both of the switch, and PicoCom), however I could not find anything that could help me get dropped off to a terminal, and I have no idea whether I am doing something wrong , or if there is something that is simply not working on the hardware.
One of my main reasons for getting the switch was to learn, since I have also started taking online CCNA and CCNP courses.
And while the PSU fans certainly sound like a vaccum cleaner, it isn't nearly what I had come to expect, and I could certainly sleep in the same room without any issues.