By the way, I do not run a GUI on my Linux dev systems. I do have an older laptop which has Lubuntu 14.04 on it. But I hardly use it. The point being, I've never run puTTY on Linux. But I could probably help troubleshoot your issue. Since I have around ~20 years hands on with Linux, most of that with Debian. A little bit with Mandrake( Red Hat ), and a tiny bit with Sabayon Linux( a Gentoo fork ).
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 5:06 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > So. . . > > *william@eee-pc:~$* ls -I "tty[0-9]*" /dev |grep tty > tty > ttyS0 > ttyS1 > ttyS2 > ttyS3 > ttyUSB0 > > william@eee-pc:~$ sudo screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 > [sudo] password for william: > > Press enter if you need a prompt, but this is mostly only good for viewing > serial debug output from the kernel. > > Press ctrl A + ctrl D to exit screen > [detached from 14104.pts-0.eee-pc] > > cat is only about as useful as above. Except with screen you can actually > interact with the serial interface. With cat, you only get a serial output > "dump" Then minicom . . I've only used it a handful of times, and it's not > much better in the way of screen formatting than either of the above cases. > > Anyway, /dev/ttyS3 is probably not the right interface for your serial > device. Why don';t you run the first command I demonstrated above and then > show us the output. > > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 4:23 PM, mzimmers <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, all - >> >> I'm running Jessie on my desktop (I can also boot Windows 7). I have >> Ethernet connectivity to my BBB, and am trying to set it up so I can direct >> BBB console output to a window on my desktop. >> >> Oddly enough, this works using PuTTY under Windows, but when I apply the >> same settings to PuTTY under Debian, I get an error: >> >> Unable to open connection to /dev/ttyS3 >> >> Unable to configure serial port >> >> >> Since I can get this to work on Windows, I can rule out the serial-to-USB >> cable as a possible culprit, and I know that the connection is at least >> valid from a hardware sense. Also, I'm guessing the problem isn't on the >> BBB, so I'm figuring it's some kind of configuration issue on the desktop. >> >> I thought this might be a permissions issue, but I added "dialout" to my >> user's groups, and I've tried it from root, with the same results, so >> that's not looking promising. >> >> Any suggestions? I'm not married to using PuTTY. I started with it >> because I thought it would be easy since I already had it working under >> Windows, but I'm willing to use most anything. >> >> I'm still new to Linux and BBB, so I'd appreciate fairly explicit answers. >> >> Thanks! >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms >> gid/beagleboard/aa13c912-3627-4cb7-bba8-625eeda6d660%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/aa13c912-3627-4cb7-bba8-625eeda6d660%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CALHSORp%3DrJkH51Ubpuhx-P%2B_jz5b8a_oGeaW7EkqnfUpcTo%3DqA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
