Help with Catalyst 3512 XL CNA

Question

Im not going to lie, I'm pretty much a beginner when it comes to switches.  I have recently purchased a second hand 3512 XL which I have managed to connect to via PuTTY and the console cable. I have familiarised myself with access privileges and resetting passwords and locating the IP address, etc.
I am trying to connect the switch to Cisco Network Assistant however I am unable to connect to the switch over a cat5 on the first port (nothing else is on the network, just a server directly to the switch).  I have tried pinging the switch from my server, and similarly I have tried pinging the server from the switch and each time there is 100% fail rate.  Can anyone help me trace this problem?
Thanks,
samp17

Answer 1

if you just want to have your pc talk to the switch and nothing else ( not connection the swith to the network ) here's what you would have to do:
set your pc an ip address: 192.168.1.1
go to your switch with console cable
enable
conf t
ip default-gateway 192.168.1.1
interface vlan 1
ip address 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.0
end
connect your pc to any port of the switch
from switch ping 192.168.1.1 - should work
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if  you want it in your network then set ip default-gateway to your gateway form your pc (if you use windows go start - run type cmd) and do ipconfig ... find your gateway and set it to switch.
if your pcs ip is 192.168.1.x then set vlan1 ip 192.168.1.55 for example
interface vlan1
ip address 192.168.1.55 255.255.255.0
hth