Hi,
I recently inherited an old Netgear Switch FSM750S and I want to play with it but it has password. I have tried already the admin: " ", admin: 1234, admin: password, and so on without any luck. I haven’t found a way in on the manuals either.
Please help if you know.
Regards
My friend, I have (possibly) bad news. While I can’t walk you through this, I want you to know I believe in you.
You need a null-modem cable, a terminal emulator, and some can-do attitude.
Relevent NETGEAR documentation
Possibly relevent knowledge base article
Refer to page 4-1 in the user manual for connection details.
According to the installation manual there is no default password protection and the credentials are “Admin” and “1234”.
Good Luck.
Thanks for your reply.
In this case there is one but all it does is restart the switch, it doesn’t erase configs in it.
Thanks for your reply.
I got an RS232-USB cable and I have been trying but no luck so far, can’t delete the old password. I haven’t tried using Windows tho.
Using “tip” this way:
sudo tio -b 9600 /dev/serial/by-id/usb-Prolific_Technology_Inc._USB-Serial_Controller_D-if00-port0
This is what I can see but I’m unable to do anything else
RDU Product coming up…
CPU type is RC32332 revision 0x00
DRAM found is 16MB
Testing DRAM…OK
RDU Product coming up…
CPU type is RC32332 revision 0x00
DRAM found is 16MB
Testing DRAM…OK
Booting up… Ver 1.1 (2274) (20020711)
Reading non-volatile data…
Boot from flash…
Reading image from flash… Done.
Decompressing image… Done.
Expanded to 3999744 bytes, CRC 29fe302f
Loading image… Release 2.6.5 (6035) (01201053)
Code Size…9404K
Total Free Memory Size…6980K
Start Address…0x8092f000
End Address…0x81000000
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Copyright 1989, 1991, 1992 by Carnegie Mellon University
Derivative Work - 1996, 1998-2000
Copyright 1996, 1998-2000 The Regents of the University of California
Copyright (c) 2001-2003, Network Associates Technology, Inc
All rights reserved.
Portions of this code are copyright (c) 2001-2003, Cambridge Broadband Ltd.
All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara,
California 95054, U.S.A. All rights reserved.
Initializing…
System Interface Attachments:
Device tty0 has been attached.
Device de0 has been attached.
Device nd0 has been attached.
System Initialization Completed…
Copyright(C) 1998-2002 NETGEAR™
login:
Have you tried the 30-30-30 reset method?
Press and hold the reset button for 30 seconds
While still holding the button down, remove the power and keep holding the reset button for 30 seconds
While still yet holding the button down, power the device on and keep holding the reset button and a final 30 seconds, Then release it.
You may have to do a final power cycle.
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Someone can correct me because I’m probably wrong, but I believe you need a null-modem (crossover) cable and not a straight-through cable.
The fact is he seeing a response could be indicative it is connected correctly.
I don’t know for sure.
According to this: Old Netgear Switch FSM750S password reset - #8 by Trent on the comment before
What do you think?