<https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-e7Q1-CTe5xQ/VBmwEZghYBI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/7Qsw1WZ8ers/s1600/wp_20140917_09_54_44_pro.jpg> I use one "guaranteed" way to connect to your board if both the USB and Ethernet fail.
1. Purchase a DFR0065 FTDI Basic Breakout 3.3/5V (Arduino) board form http://www.DFRobot.com - there are other boards like this or you can just connect 2 wires to a serial port. http://www.dfrobot.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=147 2. Plug it in to the UART0 pins - it fits perfectly. 3. Depending on your OS - you can find USB drivers here: http://www.ftdichip.com/FTDrivers.htm 4. The plug-in a USB cable from your computer into the FTDI board. If you are on windows do this with the device manager open - you will see a new COM port appear. On Windows 8.1 the drivers 5. Use any terminal program to connect to the serial port with settings 115,200 N81. I use putty pretty much exclusively these days. Unless you really have a bad board (unlikely) you _will_ connect and an added bonus is that when you reboot the BBB you will see all OS boot messages (dmesg) throughout the boot process. Hope this helps. On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 7:16:16 AM UTC-6, sufi al hussaini wrote: > > Hi, > > I have been having a problem with my beaglebone. It seems to boot, the > heartbeat LED is blinking. Everything seems fine, but I can't ping it. > I tried both with the USB cable and the ethernet cable. > > Could this be a hardware problem? > > > Regards, > Zaxter. > -- 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/d/optout.
