Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 22:21:00 +0000 From: George Rosamond <george@ceetonetechnology.com> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serial Cable for booting FreeBSD on the BeagleBone Black Message-ID: <d2e53813-7b34-84a6-e508-a68e1214d09a@ceetonetechnology.com> In-Reply-To: <2E78FD95-C7DA-44A5-9E11-CA100DF0D97A@obsigna.com> References: <2E78FD95-C7DA-44A5-9E11-CA100DF0D97A@obsigna.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --QUBHFNASwcBlAqnPrGdHdMmMuKBrPJHmh Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="uMokhfr2xiVxtGxEKhCokncBHLFd4B4sv"; protected-headers="v1" From: George Rosamond <george@ceetonetechnology.com> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Message-ID: <d2e53813-7b34-84a6-e508-a68e1214d09a@ceetonetechnology.com> Subject: Re: Serial Cable for booting FreeBSD on the BeagleBone Black References: <2E78FD95-C7DA-44A5-9E11-CA100DF0D97A@obsigna.com> In-Reply-To: <2E78FD95-C7DA-44A5-9E11-CA100DF0D97A@obsigna.com> --uMokhfr2xiVxtGxEKhCokncBHLFd4B4sv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dr. Rolf Jansen: > I ordered my BeagleBone Black, and I will receive it next week. >=20 > I read on https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/BeagleBoneBlack about bo= oting the BBB with FreeBSD, that I need to: >=20 > "Connect a serial cable such as the FTDI TTL-232R 3.3v > or the Adafruit 4-pin cable" >=20 > I am sorry, for needing to ask the obvious: >=20 > - connect the serial cable to where and for what purpose? There are four pin connectors on the serial cable, black, green, white and red. There are six pins along one side of the BBBlack with pin 1 labeled "J1" pin1 black pin4 green pin5 white and red is unused. >=20 > - what is required on the other end for establishing the > facility which the BBB needs for booting? cu(1) should work fine. >=20 > - none of my machines got a RS232 connector, I even can't > remember when I dropped out the last one that got RS232. > (for sure this was in the last millennium). > Is this really required? >=20 > Many thanks in advance for your advices. USB to the four pin connectors... I'm sure you'll be fine. g --uMokhfr2xiVxtGxEKhCokncBHLFd4B4sv-- --QUBHFNASwcBlAqnPrGdHdMmMuKBrPJHmh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEE4SllHXHjEk+XHgKHSOBG7xboSCgFAlhm3esACgkQSOBG7xbo SChxOBAAh34fVbjgVEdeMaAsyakzSXDhF3VOk+QuKpsEP1kK+G+VXLt/TVP22sDl dmnVKz0Ic0fZBAxaNtSog8dx1T08MKkKZxoCWrPLCzcxuAHoAbjHH/Oovg9cT9jT gthvnhch778VTq9izyCPdH3dHPB2VIfoSRQEAbwDMPRuDQ7akI0ooMXsvgEGnIsN CPMV0mGMaATrucNkxt628kBVu7aC9VK2e48C61vsGji40Kbgx/ocrL3w73YS/kX6 JYPvvcgTw/TIkY9FMIfJ5LUSTVfxhrlCZXjyGdsrg6QATYaLSZA2XhPdyB6kAkaV VWuOphRarySVb3JI7X1slJBnjJD3Wfq1I732jGp6dmrmxDk0/WHMUuvivtgOrbDG 12OUFoodxh/ae1e3gqDnswPEFECJJVG6Y1WNfnHR7+SN35fNfENWikPa5CRbSsJw vuhDQTj7m5bbC1/4pXNQ6vlKFyR7NIqePcyXN/RRemWM7YzVyQHyNhCySDxTGv/3 vLGy6VJ/MTadUnJrhMXS3VNFL2f7S5i6Ox53CSplQbY0FnZoJ5VnnZQ70i82lkFB ptj66bznDEZ4zt+BOi01FyvVL9FxyvClWfRk7DAbANNzCFvofiJrsjmeA0Gphwqr OeXsrbgW5DLvbTrkCa7T4g65nUukFWjZqT4S3L2q+P2CFmm9Dlo= =bp/U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --QUBHFNASwcBlAqnPrGdHdMmMuKBrPJHmh--
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