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.
>>>>
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