Interacting with BeagleBoard (BB) via Hyperterminal in Windows XP

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Hi,
Recently I bought a BB and I do not know how to use it.
I downloaded the necessary files from the following web page
http://downloads.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard/
and have have copied them to the newly formated 4 GB sd card.

when I boot the BB then I get the following prompt in the hyper terminal.

The Angstrom Distribution beagleboard ttyS2

Angstrom 2010.7-test-20110104 beagleboard ttyS2

beagleboard login:

I tried to type root at this prompt but I am unsuccessful.
How can I interact with BB using hyper terminal?
Any idea?

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Any chance you can tell us which BB you purchased?

Is handshaking enabled in hyperterminal? If so, turn it off.

Gerald

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Use putty

4

Thank you. I have BB xM. I have checked the options in hyper terminal but could not find anything about handshaking.

Is there any other tool/software for interacting with BB xM from Ubuntu 10.04?

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I use minicom.

However, I connect to the XM through a USB to serial adapter. Back when I had a PC with a serial port, I had problems connecting to the XM directly through the PC’s serial port - similar to yours where, the XM wouldn’t respond to keyboard input.

To configure minicom, run “minicom -s” then select “Serial port setup”. The settings that I use are the following. Note that Hardware Flow Control must be set to No.

A - Serial Device : /dev/ttyUSB0
B - Lockfile Location : /var/lock
C - Callin Program :
D - Callout Program :
E - Bps/Par/Bits : 115200 8N1
F - Hardware Flow Control : No
G - Software Flow Control : No

Dan.

6

Thank you. It gives me a hint and that worked.

In hyper terminal setting, I changed the Flow Control to none and then I was able to give inputs from Keyboard.

So the problem is solved

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That is what I meant by “handshaking”.

Gerald

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Ohh, sorry, but I did not understand that.
Any way the problem is solved now. I am facing another problem now. can u help me with that.

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Possibly.

Gerald