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loadlover

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Registered: 2017-05-10

Posts: 103

[SOLVED] SSH into BeagleBone Blue over USB

Hi,

This is bound to make a few people angry.. for why I do not know.

I'm trying to to SSH into a BeagleBone Blue over USB. This little BeagleBone has been booted up via its SD card with a so-called 'console' Debian image. Nice to keep things relatively lightweight.

Anyway, my Arch system should now be a client on the BB's adhoc network (I should be 192.168.7.1), and I should be able to SSH to debian@192.168.7.2. And all would be good.

Only I can't. What I can do is serial in to the BB, using `screen /dev/ttyACM0`. But that's beside the point. I would like to be able to SSH in (and without setting up connman or network-manager or whatever on the BB to connect to my router, and then SSH in that way).

It would be nice to get this working, because it would be ultra convenient (for me).

Now, I've seen a few posts on the net - people with the same or a similar problem - but no real answers. There was this generic script on the AdaFruit website, creating a udev rule:

sudo -s
cat >/etc/udev/rules.d/73-beaglebone.rules <<EOF
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_interface", \
        ATTRS{idVendor}=="0403", ATTRS{idProduct}=="a6d0", \
        DRIVER=="", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe -b ftdi_sio"

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="drivers", \
        ENV{DEVPATH}=="/bus/usb-serial/drivers/ftdi_sio", \
        ATTR{new_id}="0403 a6d0"

ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", \
        ATTRS{interface}=="BeagleBone", \
        ATTRS{bInterfaceNumber}=="00", \
        SYMLINK+="beaglebone-jtag"

ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", \
        ATTRS{interface}=="BeagleBone", \
        ATTRS{bInterfaceNumber}=="01", \
        SYMLINK+="beaglebone-serial"
EOF
udevadm control --reload-rules
exit

Doesn't help me, though. Does anyone have a wizard solution?

Many thanks

Last edited by loadlover (2018-04-26 12:08:02)

loadlover

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Registered: 2017-05-10

Posts: 103

Re: [SOLVED] SSH into BeagleBone Blue over USB

UPDATE:

The above method works. Not quite sure why it didn't in the first place, but it certainly works now. So I thought I'd mention it if someone finds this through a search engine. I should add that I'm currently using bone-debian-9.4-console-armhf-2018-03-18-1gb.img.xz.

Last edited by loadlover (2018-03-25 16:52:01)