at the moment, i don't have the proper serial cable, but i have more
than enough USB cables/adapters/etc if it's possible to put the BB on
a network and have it come up at either a hard-coded IP address or
grab something from a router via DHCP. is that possible? am i asking
a dumb question?
rday
It's possible, but it's still extremely experimental last I looked. Your best bet is to use the marked trail if you "just" want to get it running.
i suspected as much, i just thought i'd take a chance and ask.
thanks.
rday
Robert, if you want to take chances there are two things you can try:
One is to run an initial console over USB. This is still pretty
experimental but documented on elinux.org
The other one is to use a pre cooked mmc image either from the getting
started on elinux or from koen's generator and use that. If you are
lucky and boot from mmc, you should (after a while) see something on a
terminal connected to the beagle (use a terminal not a tv).
Then agian if you have an old serial cable lying around it would not
be too difficult to make a proper cable from it.
afaik no level shifters are needed, so you can just cut the cable and
mount the proper connector.
FM
thanks. it's not like this is critically important, i just can't
lay hands on a proper serial cable at the moment so i thought i'd
examine the alternatives. i should get a cable within the next day
or so.
rday