Alright then, William. As advised, I will reflash BBB with debian 7.8 and work from there.
Thank you and Robert so much for your patience and help. Regards, Cornelius On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 1:18 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > Cornelius, > > I think probably for the time being, the best, and easiest solution would > be for you to switch back to Wheezy 7.8, or 7.9. Then, you can upgrade to a > newer 4.1.x kernel from there, and still have everything work correctly. > > Then come back everyone once in a while an try a standalone image. Which > if you're unaware of the differences. A standalone image runs off an > sdcard, instead of flashing the eMMC. > > These newer Jessie images seem to still have issues, but if you give > Robert a little while, I'm sure he'll eventually get the problems ironed > out. > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Cornelius Lee <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> @William, >> >> Yep, you are absolutely right! >> I was intending to ssh BBB via USB the same way I did after flashing >> debian 7.8 with the latest debian image but found that I couldn't cos' of >> the missing ip-address. >> >> Yes, it would be wonderful for newbies like me if there would be an >> ip-address dished out by the DHCP in the BBB with the latest debian images >> as soon as one plugs it into the USB though.=) >> >> @Robert, >> >> Forgive me for my ignorance, but how do I get this serial connector >> thingy working, please? >> Is there some kind of gadget which I can buy off the shelf in an >> electronics store or do I have to assemble one by hand? >> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 12:16 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> *William, what information were you referring to? Well, the BBB is >>>> detected in my linux file-system but i can't access it via ssh through USB >>>> after flashing the latest debian image that Robert proposed earlier on. >>>> However, with debian 7.8 running off the eMMC, I get a 192.168.7.2 as soon >>>> as I plug the BBB into the USB port of my laptop... this I found quite >>>> perplexing. Hence,..here I am. =-)* >>>> >>>> *Hope this explains things a little better?* >>> >>> Well yes, and no. Robert apparently picked up right away those commands >>> were being issued on your host, but I did not realize that, until you >>> mentioned you were running Mint. I assumed you were running a Mac, based on >>> the ethernet IP address your machine pulled, but that was just a guess. >>> Some Linuxes pull in the 10.* range too . . . >>> >>> Anyway, I do have some suggestions where we might proceed from here, but >>> hoping Robert comes up with a better / easier suggestion. These suggestions >>> I have are rather complex, easier to screw up, and rather long winded . . . >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 9:09 PM, Cornelius Lee <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> William, what information were you referring to? Well, the BBB is >>>> detected in my linux file-system but i can't access it via ssh through USB >>>> after flashing the latest debian image that Robert proposed earlier on. >>>> However, with debian 7.8 running off the eMMC, I get a 192.168.7.2 as soon >>>> as I plug the BBB into the USB port of my laptop... this I found quite >>>> perplexing. Hence,..here I am. =-) >>>> >>>> Hope this explains things a little better? >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Cornelius Lee <[email protected] >>>> > wrote: >>>> >>>>> Ahhh i see,..thing is,..i don't have a serial cable connection from >>>>> the BBB to my laptop though...hence, I will not be able to debug any >>>>> further, correct? >>>>> >>>>> Currently, BBB is plugged in through USB. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Robert Nelson < >>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Cornelius Lee < >>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> > William: >>>>>> > I am using Linux Mint in my host. >>>>>> > cornelius@cornelius /etc $ cat lsb-release >>>>>> > DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint >>>>>> > DISTRIB_RELEASE=17.3 >>>>>> > DISTRIB_CODENAME=rosa >>>>>> > DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa" >>>>>> > >>>>>> > Robert: >>>>>> > cornelius@cornelius /etc $ journalctl|grep usb0 >>>>>> > journalctl: command not found >>>>>> > cornelius@cornelius /etc $ journalctl|grep -i dhcp >>>>>> > journalctl: command not found >>>>>> >>>>>> Oh, so "journalctl" is how we access the log with a systemd system. >>>>>> >>>>>> By default, we setup a multi usb interface: usb flash, usb ethernet >>>>>> (which we are debuggin) and a usb serial gadget. >>>>>> >>>>>> So use "gtkterm" it's the easist gui program, and run: >>>>>> >>>>>> gtkterm -s 115200 -p /dev/ttyACM0 >>>>>> >>>>>> This will give you a serial interface into the bbb.. >>>>>> >>>>>> Next run: (inside the bbb) >>>>>> >>>>>> journalctl | grep usb0 >>>>>> journalctl | grep -i dhcp >>>>>> >>>>>> That'll tell us what "usb0" is doing and we will see why "udhcpd" >>>>>> isn't doing what it's suppost to.. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Robert Nelson >>>>>> https://rcn-ee.com/ >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>>>>> --- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in >>>>>> the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/cvW0j4knXe4/unsubscribe >>>>>> . >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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]. >>>> 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 a topic in the >>> Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/cvW0j4knXe4/unsubscribe. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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]. >> 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/cvW0j4knXe4/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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. 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