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Date:      Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:02:16 +0100
From:      "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>
To:        "Zoran Kolic" <zkolic@sbb.rs>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sheevaplug questions
Message-ID:  <op.u5pit21b8527sy@82-170-177-25.ip.telfort.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20091229155118.GA1130@mycenae.net>
References:  <20091227160025.GA1261@mycenae.net> <op.u5o5l7ky8527sy@82-170-177-25.ip.telfort.nl> <20091229155118.GA1130@mycenae.net>

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On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:51:19 +0100, Zoran Kolic <zkolic@sbb.rs> wrote:

> Howdy!
>
>> I have 2 of them and cu works fine.
>> As root you can do this. The serial-over-usb provides you with 2 seria=
l
>> devices. The second one is the console. The first is the JTAG interfac=
e =20
>> to
>> flash the bios.
>> # cu -l cuaU1 -s 115200
>
> Perfect! I hardly wait to get the device!
>
>> When you plug the serial-over-usb in you should see something like the=
se
>> lines in dmesg/messages.
>> Dec 28 18:30:17 sjakie kernel: ugen2.4: <FTDI> at usbus2
>> Dec 28 18:30:17 sjakie kernel: uftdi0: <SheevaPlug JTAGKey FT2232D B> =
on
>> usbus2
>> Dec 28 18:30:17 sjakie kernel: uftdi1: <SheevaPlug JTAGKey FT2232D B> =
on
>> usbus2
>
> When I turn the plug on, in fact?
>
> I suspect Attos tried to connect to wrong device name, or it was
> on some older freebsd version? Also, there were more than one version
> of plug, with maybe different hardware parts.
>
> Not related to freebsd: forum posts point to error after changing
> root password on the plug. Someone experienced it? I see no reason
> to have any problem on default ubuntu 9.04 with simple "passwd".
> Almost all posters made "apt-get update first".
>
> Thank you all for reply. Best regards
>
>                                   Zoran

Please provide a link to the forum post. Otherwise I can only guess what =
=20
you mean.

There is no error because of changing the password. But there are some =20
thing broken in the default install (missing dir, missing timezone, etc.)=
. =20
Follow the commands in this link and you're ready to go.
http://www.plugcomputer.org/plugwiki/index.php/QuickStart

Ronald.



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