minicom receives beagle booting msg, but stays offline afterwards. Mac OS X, Cable Unlimited.

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Hi group,

I got the Cable Unlimited's usb to serial convert for my mac book that
runs os x (10.5).

Driver was installed smoothly.

After connecting with the beagle board, the minicom on my mac got the
booting msg from beagle just fine, but after the command prompt "#", I
can't type in anything to command the beagle board.

Hit "Ctrl - A", minicom shows "offline".

Can't figure out, anybody?

Thanks in advance.

Roger

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Make sure you have the correct IDC to DB9 cable plugged in correctly and the null modem cable. Refer to the latest System Reference Manual Rev B5 section 13.3 http://www.beagleboard.org/uploads/BBSRM_B5.pdf and the FAQs at http://beagleboard.org/support/faq.

Gerald

3

The cable is no good…

Please see the following for the correct wiring:

http://www.pccables.com/07120.htm

This is NOT what ANY of the cables in my junk drawer look like…

  • dan
4

Howdy all,

I am plodding through the steps of building Angstrom for the Beagleboard.

I can ‘bitbake nano’ but ‘bitbake base-image’ goes off building all of the X Window System.

Any idea where this is added in? All I want the the kernel and userland.

Thanks!

  • dan
5

Known-good cables and other accessories for the BeagleBoard can be ordered here:

https://specialcomp.com/beagleboard/order.htm

Bill Mar
Special Computing

6

Howdy all,

I am plodding through the steps of building Angstrom for the Beagleboard.

I can 'bitbake nano' but 'bitbake base-image' goes off building all of the X
Window System.

Any idea where this is added in? All I want the the kernel and userland.

Try "bitbake console-image"

Philip

7

Howdy all,

I am plodding through the steps of building Angstrom for the Beagleboard.

I can 'bitbake nano' but 'bitbake base-image' goes off building all of the X
Window System.

Any idea where this is added in? All I want the the kernel and userland.

Some packages (e.g. bluez, dbus or python and its tk module) have
subpackages that require X to build. That X11 stuff is being built has
no bearing on what will end up in your image. If you unpack a base-
image tarball you'll find no X stuff in there.

regards,

Koen

8

The issue seems to be a bit uglier than that.

I had tried 'bitbake beagleboard-demo-image' but it failed building
'gstreamer'.

That failed package seems to have persisted in the 'system' directory.
'gstreamer' keeps popping up until I remove the 'system' directory and start
all over...

Best regards,
- dan