I am trying to connect my Cisco 2950 switch to the Prolific serial USB converter but minicom 2.1 throws out a lot of illegel characters so I am guessing it's a baud rate issue? Here's my minicomrc

pu port /dev/ttyU0
pu baudrate 9600
pu bits 8
pu parity N
pu stopbits 1

Here's the log for the converter (/var/log/messages) -

Feb 3 08:27:22 red /bsd: uplcom0 at uhub1 port 2
Feb 3 08:27:22 red /bsd:
Feb 3 08:27:22 red /bsd: uplcom0: Prolific Technology Inc. USB-Serial Controller, rev 1.10/3.00, addr 2
Feb 3 08:27:22 red /bsd: ucom0 at uplcom0

I tried baud rate 4800 but it doesn't do anything and setting it to 19200 just makes minicom hangs.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

hi,
this won't be much help but i know it works because i use a prolific just for that purpose, configuring ciscos...so keep trying it will work