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Is there anyway to connect a usb to serial and connect to a console port on a network switch?

Anonymous
2014-04-07T16:08:12+00:00

Is there anyway to connect a usb to serial and connect to a console port on a network switch.

I can ssh but I am looking for a direct console connection.

Thanks,

Justin

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-04-08T00:16:54+00:00

    Is there anyway to connect a usb to serial and connect to a console port on a network switch.

    I can ssh but I am looking for a direct console connection.

    Thanks,

    Justin

    Any type of USB accessory require of a driver to work. The Surface 2 runs Windows RT where the amount of drivers included in the OS has been reduced to minimum to make the OS smaller. In another hand no all OEMs have released ARM compiled versions of their drivers. At this moment I don't know of any USB to serial that works in Windows RT.

    You can check if the device that you are trying to use is compatible here

    http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/compatibility/CompatCenter/

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