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Hey there,
our PowerConnect 5524 still does a weird thing:
If hooked up to a serial console (with PuTTY; correct serial settings, cable is a Cisco DB9-RJ45 rollover), I can type characters just fine on the console - but there is no way of deleting them.
It does not seem like a classical "You use the wrong cable"-situation to me. Both Cisco with their 72-3383-01 cable (DB9-RJ45) and DELL with their C206M cable claim to be a rollover-cable (which they aren't per definition) and share exactly the same pinout.
Pinout C206M --> scroll down until "Rollover-pinout DB9 to RJ45"
I just double checked with my multimeter - my cable (the Cisco one) has really the same pinout.
Am I missing something? A "hidden setting" to turn on backspace?
Kind regards
DELL-Josh Cr
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Posted March 6th, 2020 10:00
Is it a US layout keyboard or something else?
DELL-Josh Cr
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Posted March 6th, 2020 10:00
That should be fine. Can you try a different keyboard? If you use a remote session instead of console does it work?
Yannik_Z
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Posted March 16th, 2020 06:00
Hey Josh,
I found a solution to that issue:
the problem is how PuTTY handles backspace. The default value for this is Control-? (127). Changing it do Control-H fixes the issue.
Inside the PuTTY configuration, simply head over to Terminal > Keyboard > The Backspace key and change it to Control-H
Don't forget to apply the settings
Kind regards
Yannik