The micro cape I purchased can be either UART0 or UART4 but to change it 
you have to solder some bridges across some little bitty pads.  It looked 
too delicate for my fat fingers so with this setup, I'm kinda stuck with 
UART0.

On Thursday, September 11, 2014 3:02:34 PM UTC-7, Lee Crocker wrote:
>
> Some reason you can't just use one of the other UARTs? It's very handy to 
> have a serial console for debugging.
>
>
> On Thursday, September 11, 2014 10:29:48 AM UTC-7, jgold wrote:
>>
>> I've got a RS232 micro cape 
>> http://www.logicsupply.com/components/beaglebone/capes/cbb-ttl-232/ that 
>> I need to use as a serial port.  The problem is that by default /dev/ttyO0 
>> is setup as a login console.  I need to disable that so that I can use the 
>> port for my own purposes.
>>
>> I've found instructions for how to do it on Rasbian but I can't find 
>> anything for the Beaglebone.  I found a line in /etc/inittab that looked 
>> like it was starting a getty session on /dev/ttyO0 and I commented it out 
>> but after a reboot, the login is still there.
>>
>> I found some references to inittab being obsolete because systemd doesn't 
>> use it but I can't find anything to configure systemd so it doesn't use 
>> ttyO0.
>>
>> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>>
>

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