Howdy!
I ordered sheevaplug box and read as much as I could,
regarding controlling this little node from bsd box.
Seems that cu works fine on linux, but module should
be loaded to enable serial emulation from usb host port
to mini usb port on sheevaplug. Does someone use this
mini computer and how connects to serial console?
Almost all of documetation mentions win and linux. I
suppose would be pretty easy to go further with serial
line available.
Btw, there is freebsd port for this plug already. Would
be fine to try it out.
Best regards
Zoran
Hi Zoran, I have a Sheevaplug but I haven't been able to use the usb serial interface from my FreeBSD box. What I ended up with is using a EEE-PC with Ubuntu and minicomm set up as modem-less connection. I only needed this to set the plug to use a SD card for the main storage and not wear off the internal flash memory and have extra storage. Under normal operation you do not need the serial console since you can connect to it using ssh once the plug boots and acquires an IP using DHCP. The default name is debian or look into the DHCP server log and find the assigned IP. Cheers On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Zoran Kolic <zkolic@sbb.rs> wrote:> Howdy! > I ordered sheevaplug box and read as much as I could, > regarding controlling this little node from bsd box. > Seems that cu works fine on linux, but module should > be loaded to enable serial emulation from usb host port > to mini usb port on sheevaplug. Does someone use this > mini computer and how connects to serial console? > Almost all of documetation mentions win and linux. I > suppose would be pretty easy to go further with serial > line available. > Btw, there is freebsd port for this plug already. Would > be fine to try it out. > Best regards > > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Zoran > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >-- Attos Janus
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:00:25 +0100, Zoran Kolic <zkolic@sbb.rs> wrote:> Howdy! > I ordered sheevaplug box and read as much as I could, > regarding controlling this little node from bsd box. > Seems that cu works fine on linux, but module should > be loaded to enable serial emulation from usb host port > to mini usb port on sheevaplug. Does someone use this > mini computer and how connects to serial console? > Almost all of documetation mentions win and linux. I > suppose would be pretty easy to go further with serial > line available. > Btw, there is freebsd port for this plug already. Would > be fine to try it out. > Best regards > > ZoranHi, I have 2 of them and cu works fine. As root you can do this. The serial-over-usb provides you with 2 serial devices. The second one is the console. The first is the JTAG interface to flash the bios. # cu -l cuaU1 -s 115200 The device number in cuaU1 is depending on how many serial devices you have over usb. When you plug the serial-over-usb in you should see something like these lines in dmesg/messages. Dec 28 18:30:17 sjakie kernel: ugen2.4: <FTDI> at usbus2 Dec 28 18:30:17 sjakie kernel: uftdi0: <SheevaPlug JTAGKey FT2232D B> on usbus2 Dec 28 18:30:17 sjakie kernel: uftdi1: <SheevaPlug JTAGKey FT2232D B> on usbus2 Ronald.
Howdy!> I have 2 of them and cu works fine. > As root you can do this. The serial-over-usb provides you with 2 serial > devices. The second one is the console. The first is the JTAG interface to > flash the bios. > # cu -l cuaU1 -s 115200Perfect! I hardly wait to get the device!> When you plug the serial-over-usb in you should see something like these > lines in dmesg/messages. > Dec 28 18:30:17 sjakie kernel: ugen2.4: <FTDI> at usbus2 > Dec 28 18:30:17 sjakie kernel: uftdi0: <SheevaPlug JTAGKey FT2232D B> on > usbus2 > Dec 28 18:30:17 sjakie kernel: uftdi1: <SheevaPlug JTAGKey FT2232D B> on > usbus2When I turn the plug on, in fact? I suspect Attos tried to connect to wrong device name, or it was on some older freebsd version? Also, there were more than one version of plug, with maybe different hardware parts. Not related to freebsd: forum posts point to error after changing root password on the plug. Someone experienced it? I see no reason to have any problem on default ubuntu 9.04 with simple "passwd". Almost all posters made "apt-get update first". Thank you all for reply. Best regards Zoran