Last night I set up a VM (Ubuntu 12.04 with Virtual Box) and was able to plug my BBB in via USB, have the VM take control of the USB and then ssh 192.168.7.2 and talk to the beagle.
This seems like the easiest way to set up the beagles. --Mark On Monday, February 17, 2014 10:33:10 PM UTC-5, Walter Schilling wrote: > > Thanks for all the ideas. This is the direction I plan on going now that > I've made it work. > > As a side note, if you are trying this, make sure you have your VM in > Bridges mode and not NAT mode. NAT will not work, but it works fine once > you go into bridged mode. I just about strangled myself after I messed > with it for a few hours thinking I had something really wrong with my hosts > files only to change this and have it work. > > > On Friday, February 14, 2014 10:34:22 AM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Walter Schilling <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Thanks for all of the responses. A couple of additional aspects to >>>>> the problem: >>>>> >>>> >>> #1 I don't have access to the routers to adjust their setup, as that is >>> controlled by our IT department that doesn't want to deal with >>> configuration in that manner. >>> #2 Students may work at home / dorms with a different network >>> confiuration. >>> >>> I'm entrigued by the idea of writing the IP address to a file at boot. >>> If I did that, then I probably could connect via usb and read that file >>> back. I'll have to try that and see if I can get that working reliably. >>> >>> I've also thought about a program that blinked the lights on the board >>> to display the ip, but I';m not sure that will be reliable either. (Hint: >>> Maybe that would be a cool heartbeat to build into the onboard leds for >>> this reason.) >>> >> >> >> fyi: >> >> if you look closely at the debian testing images i've been pushing, the >> ip address is listed on the serial console above the login prompt.. >> However with systemd, it boots to fast, so eth0 is usually never updated >> (it's a race between getting ip and the init script that updates >> /etc/issue). >> >> Otherwise give each board a unique host name.. then user can just "ssh >> [email protected]" >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Robert Nelson >> http://www.rcn-ee.com/ >> > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
