Alcatel Unleashed

I'm having a unique console issue, I don't get anything off of the console ports of either of the two 6400's on my new companies network.

I've done self-research, Google, searched these forums, and others, and tried about 20 different solutions to no avail.

console info:

Putty
baud rate 9600
parity none
data bits (word size) 8
stop bits 1
X-ON/X-OFF (enabled/disabled, the same with every other option putty has for serial connections.)

The fun part is, I'll probably have to crack the password or use the password recovery feature after I can actually see anything in console.

I have not rebooted the switches and cannot until tomorrow (Saturday),

Any possible solutions would be greatly appreciated, as I have to have the entire configs for both switches printed and ready for a security inspection, and I’m trying to get everything verified secured and/or mitigated before Friday of next week.

Respectfully,
Danny Thompson

Correct Setting is
9600/8/none/1
I have not set any DTR/DTS/RTS/XON/XOFF

Maybe you use the wrong cable?
You need an Alcatel Adapter and a normal Cat Cable, Cisco Adapters will not work.

Thanks a bunch! I've made it to the console, now I'll have to crack the passwords, so I'm not "blind" to my switches, Thanks Devnull!

you can always reset the password of the switch when you have console access (requires reboot)

hey guys, a couple of years later... do you have a link to buy the console cable? we are in a project with 18 omniswitch 6450 and no one knows the passwords and we need to configure some things on it.

please advice!!