BeagleBone minicom problem

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My BeagleBone arrived (in the UK) on Friday, and it seems to work well
in all respects but one.

It boots quite happily using the supplied micro-sd card, and using
minicom to talk to ttyUSB1 I can watch it boot, and the kernel writes
to the console cleanly.

But I can not log on on the console. Nothing I type appears on the screen.
I can connect to it using ssh through the ethernet interface and log on.

So I tried following the Debian install onto another micro-sd card,
and the same symptom.

I use minicom all the time to talk to a bunch of other embedded boards
through a variety of USB serial adapters, and for this setup I have it
configured to use 115200n8 with hardware flow control (as recommended
in a number of web pages).

Anyone got any clues as to how to fix this?

David

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if this is the issue with minicom, try picocom ( sometimes I faced trouble using minicom )
picocom -b 115200 /dev/ttyUSB0

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Thanks, that fixed it. Never had that sort of problem with minicom
before, but I now have picocom in case I hit it in the future.

David

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small suggestion here , its better to use graphical terminals ,
minicom can be very frustrating at times , instead try out gtkterm or
cutecom ,

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small suggestion here , its better to use graphical terminals ,
minicom can be very frustrating at times , instead try out gtkterm or
cutecom ,

I don't see that either of those if going to help with this kind of
problem. As I just commented on another person with much the same
problem there seems to a dissagreement on the web sites as to whether
you should have hardware flow control enabled or not. Get it right
and it works (or a use a program like picocom which seems to ignore
flow control) or get it wrong and it does not.

David

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You need to turn Hardware flow control OFF.

There must be an error on the web pages ??

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Simplest to use is "gtkterm" which I have used for over a decade and a half.
With it you can save the dialogue if you need to look at past activity.
73 ... Sid.

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