BeagleNoob,
There are several ways:
1) Buy a router (unless you already are using one) and plug the beaglebone
black Ethernet port into the router, and your pc into the router also and
the router to the house Ethernet port. Then off the internet download
the Advanced Port Scanner from Radmin (its free). Use the Radmin to scan
your network for the BBblack device and to see
what Ethernet address the router has assigned to it. Then sudo ssh to
that address and not the 196.168.7.2. You need to tell or set in the
Radmin port scanner and
range of address to scan like 192.168.2.1 to 192.168.2.255 or like
192.168.40.1 to 192.168.40.255. I guess the third number really depends
on if you are at home or at work and you know the range of addresses that
the main server will chose. You will know the BBB address because it will
show two open ports, with port number 22 ssh.
2) Go to like a Frys or Microcenter or some electronics super store that
has a device called a FTDI, USB to serial converter. There are several,
one made by Sparkfun
and another made by OSSep, and probably there are others. You then
would use a usb to miniAB cable (like the one that came with the BBB) and
plug this onto the usb to serial converter. Oh, you need to make sure the
usb to serial converter is a 3.3V version and not a +5V version otherwise
bye bye BBB. The usb to serial converter FTDI also needs to have 5 pin
socket and this will plug onto the BBB at J1 which is a 5 pin male header,
but you need to make sure you plug it in the correct direction i.e. pin 1
goes into socket 1.
But you need a driver for the usb to serial FTDI, but for a Linux host
machine it is already built in, but if you are using a Windows machine,
then you need to go to the manufacturers website for the device and
download and install the driver for the thing. Once that is done and
working then it is a matter of plugging it to your BBB at J1 and then
plugging the +5V power supply to the BBB. But you will need to use
minicom on a Linux machine $ minicom -s and then set the baud for 115.2khz
and also need
to set the device to /dev/ttyUSB0. For a Windows machine you would use
putty but I am not sure what setting you would use, possibly ssh , but more
likely serial with 8n1 8 data bits, no parity and no flow control, setting
also with a 115.2k baud. When booted the putty screen should show like a
dmesg
Best regards,
RocketRod
On Thursday, November 21, 2013 10:02:13 PM UTC-8, BeagleNoob wrote:
> Hello Everyone!
>
> I just got my very first BeagleBoard, the BeagleBone Black. I am new to
> the world of microcontrollers and embedded programming so *please forgive
> me if I say/ask anything stupid*. I look forward to learning a lot from
> you guys, but now on to my problem . . .
>
> I was following the instructions beginning with START.htm and I got to the
> section where it shows how to SSH over to the board. The problem is that I
> can't seem to connect. I clicked the link that was supposed to direct me to
> https://beaglebone.local<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fbeaglebone.local&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHbqRXROY9pbc7FnFaH-AhfrCwppg>(
> https://192.168.7.2/<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2F192.168.7.2%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHyf9cEkrJCzhy2JqH5n2O2oodJhg>)
>
> but I just get a message from Chrome saying the webpage is not available.
> I'm not sure where to begin troubleshooting on this. The board is detected
> when I go to the START.htm page, but I can't figure out why it won't
> connect to beaglebone.local. I was wondering if there was a way to check
> connectivity with Putty, maybe?
>
> Has anyone had this issue before when they first started with the board
> and, if so, how did you resolve it? Thanks in advance for any help on this!
> :-)
>
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