From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 29 16:02:27 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A91D1065670 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:02:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: from smtp-out0.tiscali.nl (smtp-out0.tiscali.nl [195.241.79.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDD968FC12 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:02:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.123.145.58] (helo=sjakie.klop.ws) by smtp-out0.tiscali.nl with esmtp (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1NPeWf-00075L-JI; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:02:25 +0100 Received: from 82-170-177-25.ip.telfort.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sjakie.klop.ws (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97CB115151; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:02:16 +0100 (CET) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: "Zoran Kolic" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20091227160025.GA1261@mycenae.net> <20091229155118.GA1130@mycenae.net> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:02:16 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Ronald Klop" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20091229155118.GA1130@mycenae.net> User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.10 (FreeBSD) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Subject: Re: sheevaplug questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:02:27 -0000 On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:51:19 +0100, Zoran Kolic 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: at usbus2 >> Dec 28 18:30:17 sjakie kernel: uftdi0: = on >> usbus2 >> Dec 28 18:30:17 sjakie kernel: uftdi1: = 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.