Thank you gentlemen! Pinging google.com did not get an answer. Adding the ethernet cable worked for the Google ping once I halted and rebooted the BBB. The ntpdate pool.ntp.org then worked just as it should. A little digging should get me a parameter of some sort to add, to tell the ntp system that I'm offset by -8 hours from GMT (or CUT as I hear it more often now).
A nice bonus too is now knowing what that sudo stuff is all about. I'm not new to computing (mainly business management systems), but BBB, Debian, editors, shells, Python all at once is quite a nice challenge. I've had quite a few small victories on my own with this, but I don't doubt that I'll be back with my hand raised again. Thanks again Bob On Friday, January 2, 2015 6:36:59 PM UTC-8, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > On 1/2/2015 7:56 PM, rjc2827 wrote: > > I'm new, so there's some early step that I've overlooked, but I can't > set > > the time, and I don't know why. I'm running the Ver C BBB with Debian > > pre-installed. I have flashed the newest OS version, and have found > PuTTY > > to get me access to the SSH shell. I've even got a single LED to light > up > > with some sample code that I've found. I now want to apt-get update and > > install, but I've been told to get my date set up first so that the > > update/install goes smoothly, but ... > > > > Both of: > > root@beaglebone:~# ntpdate pool.ntp.org > > root@beaglebone:~# sudo ntpdate pool.ntp.org > > > > get me a response of: > > Error resolving pool.ntp.org: Name or service not known (-2) > > 15 May 07:34:42 ntpdate[5292]: Can't find host pool.ntp.org: Name or > > service not known (-2) > > 15 May 07:34:42 ntpdate[5292]: no servers can be used, exiting > > Reading between the lines, I suspect you're connected via USB, so you > won't have networking on the 'Bone unless you configure your host system > to forward traffic for the 'Bone to the internet or (easier) hook up an > Ethernet cable to the BBB. > > -- > Charles Steinkuehler > [email protected] <javascript:> > -- 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.
