Planet WGSW-48000 [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 WGSW 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.

PC / Workstation

with

Terminal emulation software

WGSW Managed Switch

Serial Port

RS-232

Serial Port

38400,8,n,1

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

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:

Baud: 38400

Parity: None

Data bits: 8

Stop bits: 1

Flow Control: None