Before I do anything, it would seem to make sense to find out the name of the device on my Debian desktop. As I mentioned, I have /dev/ttyS[0-3]. Is there some way to determine which of these is the one I plugged the serial cable into?
On Thursday, February 16, 2017 at 1:00:21 PM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote: > > You can use screen,, minicom, or even cat on the serial device. e.g. screen > /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 - Or something like that. However, in this case It > probably is better to use puTTY. As all the utilities I mentioned above > have issues with line endings, and eventually will stop breaking on a > linefeed - correctly. > > You'd be best off googling for how to setup puTTY on Linux. Or, only use > serial debug from a Windows system. The later is what I do, only use serial > debug from a Windows system with puTTY. However, form the sound of it. It > seems as though you have not setup permissions for the serial device yet, > Typically this would probably be set to owner root:dialout. Where your user > would also be a part of the dialout group. Anyway, this is another case > where you'd have to google how to properly set this up. As it's not > something I do, or ever plan on doing- personally. > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 12:53 PM, mzimmers <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> But what do I do for seeing console messages? Terminal doesn't show me >> those. >> >> On Thursday, February 16, 2017 at 12:51:20 PM UTC-7, William Hermans >> wrote: >>> >>> Well, actually the remote host *MUST* have an ssh server running. But in >>> the case of the beaglebone, it already does. You may also have to install >>> an ssh client on the client system. But typically all but the most slim >>> Linux installs usually have ssh client packaged in already. >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 12:49 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Why would you want to use putty on Linux ? Literally it is as simple as >>>> ssh user@host. Where user is the username you wish to use once ssh'd into >>>> the remote system. Where host is the host address for the remote system. >>>> You can run this command like you would any other command. From a Linux >>>> terminal. >>>> >>> -- >> 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:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/586b84ee-0ccb-410e-9281-628704326e0a%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/586b84ee-0ccb-410e-9281-628704326e0a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/c4190f3e-3ab5-4465-882a-c2638857e91b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
