Mellanox 4036e console cable

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Darkytoo

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I've got a mellanox 4036e off of ebay, and while it gets an IP and I get a logon screen, I neither have a password for it, nor can I get any sort of access via the serial port. I've tried a cisco console cable, a null modem cable, a straight through cable, and switch pins 2 / 6, 2/3 and 2/4 and I can't get even any gibberish to show on the computer end. Is the switch bad?
 

vanfawx

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What serial settings did you use? According to the manual for this device you need the following:

38,400 baud
Eight data bits
One stop bit
No parity
Flow Control – None

The documentation makes it sound like a standard cisco console cable should work fine.