Trying to enable UART

I’m a little confused…

FYI I’m running ArchLinux on BBB, but I get this error:

cat $SLOTS
0: 54:PF—
1: 55:PF—
2: 56:PF—
3: 57:PF—
4: ff:P-O-L Bone-LT-eMMC-2G,00A0,Texas Instrument,BB-BONE-EMMC-2G
5: ff:P-O-L Bone-Black-HDMI,00A0,Texas Instrument,BB-BONELT-HDMI

echo BB-uART4-00A0 > $SLOTS
-bash: echo: write error: No such file or directory

$SLOTS is an environmental variable pointing to /sys/devices/bone_capemgr.9/slots

I’m not sure how I can cat $SLOTS, see what I expect, but then not be able to output to it?!

I’m sure it’s something silly - I just can’t figure it out :S

Your $SLOTS variable is fine.

Just lose the -00A0 i.e.

echo BB-uART4 > $SLOTS

Mike

same deal, I’m afraid.

export SLOTS=/sys/devices/bone_capemgr.9/slots
echo BB-uART4 > $SLOTS
-bash: echo: write error: No such file or directory

Hello Louis,
simply type:
echo BB-UART4 > /sys/devices/bone_capemgr.9/slots
Why this variable?
For control type:
cat /sys/devices/bone_capemgr.9/slots

Werner

You probably have a bone_capemgr.8 instead of a .9. Have a look. Or just try using .8 instead.