In all fairness, I don’t know if you actually need uucp but since I use it for serial transfers to Arduino type devices, I am just assuming. I would give the alternative option to do the Direct Installation but since you will be in the terminal anyway, why would you do that?īefore you run minicom you will need to add your user as a member of the groups: dialout, lock and uucp.

This is in the official repository so you can go into the terminal and type this to install it: I am open to other suggestions, of course. My first step was to find a piece of software that would work for me for this and I am sure that there are a ton of solutions but the one that worked the easiest for me was minicom. Since I am an openSUSE user, the directions are tailored as such. I am sure these direction will work with other similar devices. The specific Cisco switch I configured was a Catalyst 3560 series PoE-48. The scope of this article is not how to set up a router, just, this is how I was able to get going with it. Also, my brother in-law, whose career is in network administration just loves this Cisco business so it turned out to be quite educational. To be as objective as possible, I need to tell myself that: 1, I am not familiar with the command set or how they like to do things so I must be open minded 2, Relax, the command line is a happy place to be and 3, this is new territory, don’t get frustrated, just write it down and enjoy the learning process. As much as I like playing in the terminal, the jury is still out as to how much I like working with Cisco.

Create user on cisco switch