Need help getting into a 2501 bought off eBay!!

JayrodEF

I got this 2501 off eBay a while back and just recently fired it up. I'm having trouble getting into it, however. Everytime it boots up it says it's available, press return, etc. When I press enter it asks for user access verification. Now I've gone through the steps for resetting the enable and secret password about a half dozen times now. I'm just coming to realize that the enable password must be different than a user access verification password. I tried to find anything out there on this issue but haven't been successful as of yet. Any thoughts on how I could get into this thing would be great! Thanks!

dtlokee

Follow the password recovery steps but instead of resetting the password use the "erase start" command from privileged mode, and reboot. The router currently has a configuration to check username and PW attached to the console and you need to get rid of it (or simply erase the startup config and reload so it's a blank config)

cisco_trooper

http://www.happyrouter.com/content/view/35/29/

Didn't watch it, so don't flame me if it sucks.

JayrodEF

Thanks for the replies. The "erase start" command seemed to do the trick. I wasn't completely sure it was working because it kept booting up afterwards to the 0x2142 registry. I got it switched back to the 0x2102 and it wasn't asking for any passwords, so I think I'm all set. Thanks again!

arcanium

keep in mind besides the register setting is that it sounded like it was asking for a console password which would have been the line con 0