Can't Connect over USB with OSX 10.8

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Hi,

I feel like an idiot asking for help with something as simple as this but i’m unable to connect to the board using OSX 10.8. The board i have is an A6 rev. When i connect the usb cable the drive mounts and i can view the readme docs on the flash drive. I’ve tried following the simple instructions of ejecting the drive and issuing the systemct.stop and system.start commands but the shell just responds with “systemctl: command not found”
If i navigate to the /dev directory at no point do i see anything that looks like the beaglebone when using “ls -l tty.*”

I’ve tried all the above on both my account as well as the super user account sudo -s

I’ve been able to upgrade the flash to the latest angstrom but i’m still having the connection issue. One thing to note, which i’m not sure if it matters or not, but i don’t have an ether cable connected to the router, and i’m only powering off the micro-usb cable.

At this point i’m dead and the water and could use any help.

Thanks,
Griffin

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Hi,

I feel like an idiot asking for help with something as simple as this but
i'm unable to connect to the board using OSX 10.8. The board i have is an
A6 rev. When i connect the usb cable the drive mounts and i can view the
readme docs on the flash drive. I've tried following the simple
instructions of ejecting the drive and issuing the systemct.stop and
system.start commands but the shell just responds with "systemctl: command
not found"
If i navigate to the /dev directory at no point do i see anything that looks
like the beaglebone when using "ls -l tty.*"

The 'systemctl' commands are meant to be typed to the BeagleBone
console, not on your Mac.

Can you run 'screen /dev/tty.usb*B 115200' on your Mac to get to the
Angstrom login prompt? You'll need to press <ENTER> a couple of times
once the screen clears to get the prompt.

Once you login (username: root, password: <empty>), then you can type
the systemctl commands.