I am new to the BeagleBone Black and I have so far been unable to connect the BeagleBone with my Mac and successfully log in to SSH.
I have downloaded and installed both HoRNDIS and FTDI_ser but this has not helped.
I have also allowed remote log in's through my Macs network preferences.
The connection I am attempting to make is with an Ethernet connector and uses an Ethernet to USB adapter.
When I try ssh root#192.168.7.2 through my terminal the connection is just timing out.
Can anyone suggest something else I could try or what might be preventing the connection?
I'm not sure how a Ethernet to USB adapter works but using the plain USB adapter that comes with the BeagleBone Black, after installing the above mentioned drivers, you need to restart the Mac and then try opening http://192.168.7.2 or ssh root#192.168.7.2
I know this is an old post that I am responding to but for others who may be having same problem.....First off, if you installed all drivers and when you plug in USB to your Mac and the BBB does not show up as a removable drive then try the steps below. If it does, then type ls /dev/tty.* in your terminal and look for an output on the terminal tty.USB0. Then serial connect to that tty. If all else fails try this failproof method for serial connecting to BBB
Get USB to UART debug connector find it on Amazon here
Install the CP2102 drivers for Mac
Type ls /dev/tty.* on terminal (of course have it connected to Mac
Your terminal should output a device named tty.SLAB_USBtoUART
Serial connect to that tty name with a baud rate of 115200
Power your BBB (you can use the USB connector that comes with BBB to power it on, so you should have one USB connected for powering the BBB and the other is the debug connector connected to your mac for a serial connect.
Bam! You should see Uboot output and a prompt to login
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I'm attempting to connect to a Cisco 4010 network switch via it's built in usb port (which internally is a usb to rs232 adapter wired to the back of the console port).
I have installed the Cisco usb console drivers version 3.1
When I plug into the usb port, the little green LED that indicates that the console port has switched to usb does not light up.
When I run putty, and attempt to connect via serial connection to COM16 (the usb to rs232 in the cisco switch) I get:
Unable to open connection to COM16
Opening '\.\COM16': Error 1450: Insufficient System resources exist to complete the requested service.
I have tried reinstalling the drivers to no effect.
I have 3 identical switches, which give me identical behaviour, all 3 new out of the box with no programming.
Changing the Baud rate makes no difference, not that I'm expecting it to as the issue seems to be COM16 doesn't exist or similar
Putty Settings and Device Manager
With the help of a colleague, we narrowed the issue down to windows using a default usb to rs232 driver rather than the cisco one I had installed. The big clue came when I tried using putty inside a VM and it worked, while on the host OS I was still getting error 1450.
We had to compeletely uninstall all drivers, reboot, reinstall drivers manually, reboot, then attempt the usb connection again.
The last comment here describes it:
https://community.cisco.com/t5/cisco-software-discussions/usb-console-cable/td-p/3952600
I will copy the solution across to here, for easier search of the solution for the next person who has the same issue.
For WIn10 , install the setup(x64).exe from the Cisco_usbconsole_driver_3_1.zip.
Check that the Cisco Serial (Comx) is using the correct driver provider which should be Cisco. Don't use the Cypress driver.
Device Manager
To update the driver,
If you installed it already and having issues, uninstall it using the setup(x64),exe then reboot PC.
Uninstall Cisco Driver
First, disconnect the blue Cisco USB console cable. Reinstall the Cisco USB console drive using setup(x64).exe from the Windows_64 folder which was extracted from file Cisco_usbconsole_driver_3_1.zip.
Reboot PC
Open device manager to observe the driver installation. Check that you see "Cisco USB to Serial Adapter". If you don't see it repeat the above steps.
if you see above "Cisco USB to Serial Adapter". then
Update Driver
Click UPDATE DRIVER, then Browse my computer for driver software.
Choose " Let me pick from a list of available driers on my Computer." Select "Cisco Serial".
Pick driver
Finally,. connect to the COM port x indicated in the Device Manager, Ports (COM & LPT) , Cisco Serial (COMx)
I was following the Coral Dev Board get started guide - Get started with the Dev Board (https://coral.withgoogle.com/docs/dev-board/get-started/). Everything worked fine until to the step - Connect to the board's shell via MDT.
I've waited about 5 minutes until the flashing to complete, and the terminal prompt returned to me, then I tried the command:
mdt devices
The terminal returns nothing. Unlike the guide says it supposes to return my board hostname and IP address. I've checked the USB-C OTG and USB-C power cable, they are all connected well.
I've also tried this solution: https://superuser.com/questions/1452786/coral-dev-board-not-recongized-on-mdt-shell. I went to Network under System Preferences, and clicked "+" icon, but I couldn't find the mendel device.
I'm using Macbook Pro running on macOS Catalina. The fastboot and mdt commands are both working.
I just found a solution:
Just plug micro-B USB cable, then run:
screen /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART 115200
If it shows blank, wait a couple seconds, then plug usb-c power cable, the system of the dev board will start loading, the login prompt will come out. After I logged in, I plugged the usb-c cable into data port(keep the micro-B USB cable in at the same time), then run:
mdt devices
or
mdt shell
This solution works for me only when I have turned on the wifi of the dev board and connect it to the same wifi network. If you want to turn on the wifi network of coral dev board, run the command on screen terminal:
nmtui
The Network Manager TUI prompt will come out then you can connect to your wifi network.
It's a problem on macOS Catalina. It doesn't "see" USB connection as a network connection and as such it is impossible to connect to Coral Dev Board.
I have the same issue, but I tried with another MAC with older macOS and it worked just fine.
Now, I don't have yet the solution, but at least we all know the problem ;-)
Regards,
Rui
First check the that the device is detected by running dmesg command.
Normally you should see something like this
$ dmesg
...
[107834.681816] usb 2-3: new high-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[107834.845073] usb 2-3: New USB device found, idVendor=18d1, idProduct=9304, bcdDevice= 4.19
[107834.845077] usb 2-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[107834.845079] usb 2-3: Product: Mendel
[107834.845081] usb 2-3: Manufacturer: Google,LLC
[107834.845083] usb 2-3: SerialNumber: bored-horse
[107834.985296] cdc_acm 2-3:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
[107834.986069] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_acm
[107834.986070] cdc_acm: USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters
[107835.005045] cdc_ether 2-3:1.2 usb0: register 'cdc_ether' at usb-0000:06:00.3-3, CDC Ethernet Device, aa:9f:04:54:dc:45
[107835.005124] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ether
[107835.019787] cdc_ether 2-3:1.2 enxaa9f0454dc45: renamed from usb0
[107897.336866] IPv6: MLD: clamping QRV from 1 to 2!
[107956.344960] usb 2-3: USB disconnect, device number 3
[107956.345357] cdc_ether 2-3:1.2 enxaa9f0454dc45: unregister 'cdc_ether' usb-0000:06:00.3-3, CDC Ethernet Device
...
After that, check your network interfaces using ip command
$ ip link
Then look for the one with the one with the same MAC address as the one that appears in the logs of dmesg.
Once you find it, run this command to assign an IP address
$ sudo dhclient <name of the network interface of coral dev board>
Now you should see an IP assigned to the interface.
$ ip a
After that, run mdt devices and you should see the dev board connected.
$ mdt devices
bored-horse (192.168.100.2)
I had the same problem in Debian (Buster). I was able to follow all the steps to connect and flash the device until 'mdt shell' and I would receive a 'Unable to find any devices on your local network segment' message.
Opening the network settings and enabling 'USB' as a network interface worked for me.
After connecting to the Coral Dev Board the first time and exchanging private keys, I unplugged the USB cable. After that, my computer was offline until I re-enabled the ethernet connection. It seems that enabling the USB network disabled the ethernet. At that point, mdt shell was able to connect via the ethernet network.
So I've just spent most of the afternoon with this issue. After I downgraded the OS to Chef it seemed to work fine as the USB device (OTG port) would initialize on boot and then the SSH key could be pushed through. However, with the latest OS (Eagle) this was not the case.
The fix was simple:
Remove the USB C OTG port cable from the board
Reboot the Coral board
Wait for boot sequence to complete
Connect the USB C OTG port cable to the board
Run "mdt shell"
key is pushed through!
Now I can set up the WiFi or connect Ethernet and remove that cable once again and now I can freely call mdt shell and it connects every time.
I can open my ESP32 Vroom32 device made by Espressif with a cp2101 chip on Ubuntu. I used Ubuntu to flash Micropython onto it, however when I try to connect with Putty, MPFshell or anything else on Windows 10 it will not work. I downloaded and installed the recommended drivers for it and also updated Windows which was supposed to load the driver as well. I can see the device and COM port in device manager but when I attempt to connect I get blocked. For example on MPFshell I get the message "Cannot connect to COM17"
It is a common reason for boards to show the "Cannot Connect to COM" error because of a bad USB cable.
Always check with another cable first, before getting deeper to the problem.
Does anyone out there who has developed on a dev board attached to a Mac OSX machine's USB port know how to send AT tty modem commands to the board? Arduino folks? Anyone?
TL;DR
I purchased a development STEVAL-SPBT2ATV2 "USB Dongle for the Bluetooth class 2 SPBT2532C2.AT module", which, according to the docs and spec has "downloaded FW, enabling the user to create a Bluetooth link with simple AT commands."
Which would be great, except all the documentation is only for old MS Windows, and doesn't give any hints on how to program this device from OSX or Linux.
Do I need to install a driver of some sort? Everything I've tried is like talking to a brick wall: I send commands, but nothing comes back from the board.
Things I've tried:
/dev/tty.Bluetooth-Modem already existed. Didn't seem to do anything. I think that's the built-in bluetooth device.
/dev/tty.AmpedUp-AMP-SPP and /dev/cu.AmpedUp-AMP-SPP showed up when I went to "Network -> set up bluetooth device" - which is good (correct device name) but strange, why under network?
Then under Bluetooth I can add a "serial port used to connect to this computer" and get the choice of Modem or RS-232. I guessed Modem.
I really hope I don't have to mess with the /etc/tty files
Nothing. the device never seems to react, or send any data back. I've tried several ways to send data to the device. Silence.
echo "AT+AB GPIOConfig 2 O^M" > /dev/cu.AmpedUp-AMP-SPP # ctrl-v ctrl-m for the ^M
screen /dev/tty.AmpedUp-AMP-SPP
cat /dev/tty.AmpedUp-AMP-SPP
minicom # via brew
chat /dev/cu.AmpedUp-AMP-SPP
From the docs:
Each dongle has the following factory default:
UART: 115200 baud, no parity,1 stop bit,8 data bits
Local name: “Amp'ed UP!’
Class of device: Misc Device
Profile: SPP (serial port profile)
Service name: “AMP-SPP”
Deep sleep: disabled
Page and inquiry scan: 1.28s interval, 11 ms duration
Security: disabled
Bonding PIN: “1234”
Bonding allowed: always enabled
I figured out where I was wayyy off-base with some help from a friend.
I thought that I was trying to establish a OSX->Terminal->Serial (Over USB)->Chip communication channel to program the chip.
When in reality, I was trying to establish a OSX->Terminal->Serial (over Bluetooth->Bluetooth) -> Chip channel to talk to the chip using the existing firmware, which includes enough defaults to have 4 GPIO/LED outputs. The USB only comes in later if I want to change the firmware.
Which means plugging the board into my laptop's USB port isn't necessary and only complicates the issue - better is plugging it into a spare USB charger next to my laptop.
... Which let me narrow down the problem to 2 things:
OSX isn't holding an open bluetooth communication channel to the BT device, so of course I won't be able to talk to it, even if the serial port is set up right
Even if I could talk to it, Apple iOS is so locked down that I won't be able to connect to it from an iPhone/iPad. :(
I am trying find out how and with which program for OSX (10.5.8) I can configure serial ports? I am trying to establish a wireless connection between two Xbee´s (RF modules) and cannot figure out how to use ZTerm nor screen under Terminal. The setup I am using is: an Arduino+Xbeeshield+Xbee with external power supply, and an xbee on the xbee explorer connected to the Computer via USB.
I am trying to gather information on this through various forums, but most of them cover the configuration issue for PC using X-CTU (which I tried with CrossOver but it doesn´t recognize ny of my ports). According to one source, using screen under Terminal should show me all my serial ports, particularly /dev/tty.KeySerial1 - but it doesn´t show, even though I´ve plugged in both my arduino+xbee shield and the xbee on the explorer.
/dev/tty.KeySerial1 is incorrect.
First step is to get the FTDI USB driver installed if it has not yet been installed. The fastest way to determine if it is installed or not is to connect the XBee Explorer board. Then go look in /dev for a device named tty.usbserial-XXXXXXXX (Xs will be a unique hex ID). If you see multiple devices like this, then you probably have the Arduino plugged in too and you will need to disconnect it to determine what the device name is for the XBee Explorer board.
Once you know the device name, all you need to do is the command "screen /dev/tty.usbserial-XXXXXXXXX 9600". That should do it for you.
You can configure the tty device itself using stty. Be sure to redirect input from the terminal you want to configure, as stty operates on it's input. For instance, to set a serial port to 9600, no parity, 8 data bits, and 1 stop bit, aka "9600N81" in Windows parlance, try:
stty 9600 cs8 -cstopb -parenb < /dev/tty.usbserial-xxxxxxxx
Programmatically, you do this by opening the serial port and using the termios(4) ioctls on the device. See the termios(4) man page for more assistance.