Cisco 2501

My friend let me borrow an old Cisco 2501 Router so I could play with IOS at home. I plugged a rj45 to rs232 adapter into the 2501 and my thinkpad running Xubuntu and set up my serial console with minicom as per the Ubuntu CiscoConsole howto.

After starting minicom back up I see:

Welcome to minicom 2.2

OPTIONS: I18n 
Compiled on Apr 27 2007, 15:50:20.
Port /dev/ttyS0

               Press CTRL-A Z for help on special keys
                                                     
                                                     
                                                     
First, would you like to see the current interface summary? [yes]: AT S7=45 S0=0
% Please answer 'yes' or 'no'.

First, would you like to see the current interface summary? [yes]: yes

Any interface listed with OK? value "NO" does not have a valid configuration

Interface        IP-Address      OK?  Method    Status                 Protocol
Ethernet0        unassigned      NO   not set   up                     down    
Serial0          unassigned      NO   not set   down                   down    
Serial1          unassigned      NO   not set   down                   down    

Configuring global parameters:

  Enter host name [Router]: 
...
Use this configuration? [yes/no]: yes
Building configuration...



Press RETURN to get started!


%LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Ethernet0, changed state to down
%LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Serial0, changed state to down
%LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Serial1, changed state to down
%LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Ethernet0, changed state to up
%LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Serial0, changed state to down
%LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Serial1, changed state to down
%LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface Ethernet0, changed state to administratively down
%LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface Serial0, changed state to administratively down
%LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface Serial1, changed state to administratively down
%SYS-5-RESTART: System restarted --
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software 
IOS (tm) 3000 Software (CPA25-Y-L), Version 11.0(4), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1986-1995 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Mon 18-Dec-95 19:21 by alanyu
%SNMP-3-SOCKET: can't open UDP socket
Router>
Router>
Router>sh version
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software 
IOS (tm) 3000 Software (CPA25-Y-L), Version 11.0(4), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1986-1995 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Mon 18-Dec-95 19:21 by alanyu
...
cisco 2500 (68030) processor (revision L) with 2044K/2048K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID 02425768, with hardware revision 00000000
...
Router>
Router>
Router>

All set. Looks like I'll be playing with IOS 11.0.