Yes, thanks very much Nelson. I finally located a Derek Malloy video on setting up network connection sharing here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzRVVtGNfj8 that guided me through the setup step-by-step. A little tense translating Win 7 instructions to Win XP -- but got it working after a few tries. Hope the link will be of help to the next guy who, like me, is not educated on networking issues like this :-) Thanks again for your time and the help, On Saturday, October 4, 2014 12:38:30 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > > On Oct 4, 2014 11:43 AM, "Curt Carpenter" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > Yes, I've done all that and can run the BoneScript examples and so forth > and use PuTTY to browse the board. Also googled things like "beaglebone > debian DNS" but found nothing I could understand that would let me use > apttitude from the board. > > > > Thank you for your time anyway. I'll try here again later. > > You need to setup internet connection sharing on your windows box and > route it to the USB network device. Or just use an Ethernet cable and > network switch as that is way easier. > > > > > > > On Saturday, October 4, 2014 10:56:41 AM UTC-5, Wulf Man wrote: > >> > >> http://beagleboard.org/Getting+Started > >> > >> > >> On 10/4/2014 8:17 AM, Curt Carpenter wrote: > >>> > >>> Thank you for the help wulfman. > >>> > >>> When I enter > >>> > >>> root@beaglebone:~# nslookup ftp.us.debian.org > >>> > >>> the response is > >>> > >>> -bash: nslookup: command not found. > >>> > >>> I don't seem to be able to ping any address either. Should I be able > to do this without having a LAN cable connected to the BBB? > >>> > >>> I've taken no steps to set up any networking capability on my board, > and suspect that this may be my problem. Can you point me to any docs or > tutorials that might help me? My knowledge of Linux networking is VERY > limited! > >>> > >>> Thanks again! > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> 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. > >> > >> > > -- > > 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] <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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.
