lemme guess you are connected to your bone with USB and you dont have
internet connection sharing enabled ?


On 7/13/2015 12:17 AM, Jane leona wrote:
> Hey, rjc
> Now I'm having the same problem as you did. Like:
> root@beaglebone:~# ntpdate pool.ntp.org
> Error resolving pool.ntp.org: Name or service not known (-2)
> 24 Apr 04:50:13 ntpdate[1143]: Can't find host pool.ntp.org: Name or
> service not known (-2)
> 24 Apr 04:50:13 ntpdate[1143]: no servers can be used, exiting
> Can you tell me how exactly you figure your problem before? That will
> help me a lot.
> Thanks, 
> Jane
>
> 在 2015年1月3日星期六 UTC+8下午12:46:19,rjc2827写道:
>
>     Thank you gentlemen!
>
>     Pinging google.com <http://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
>     <http://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 <http://pool.ntp.org>
>         > root@beaglebone:~# sudo ntpdate pool.ntp.org
>         <http://pool.ntp.org>
>         >
>         > get me a response of:
>         > Error resolving pool.ntp.org <http://pool.ntp.org>: Name or
>         service not known (-2)
>         > 15 May 07:34:42 ntpdate[5292]: Can't find host pool.ntp.org
>         <http://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]
>
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