Planet WGSD-8020 [5/12] Terminal setup

3. Terminal Setup

To congure the system, connect a serial cable to a COM port on a PC or

notebook computer and to serial (console) port of the WGSD Managed Switch. The

console port of the Managed Switch is DCE already, so that you can connect the

console port directly through PC without the need of Null Modem.

Figure 3-1 WGSD Managed Switch Console connection

A terminal program is required to make the software connection to the WGSD

Managed Switch. Windows’ Hyper Terminal program may be a good choice. The

Hyper Terminal can be accessed from the Start menu.

1. Click

START, then Programs, Accessories and then Hyper Terminal.

2. When the following screen appears, make sure that the COM port should be

congured as:

n Baud: 115200

n Parity: None

n Data bits: 8

n Stop bits: 1

n Flow Control: None

Figure 3-2 Hyper Terminal COM port conguration