I just bought a fitlet xa10, and got 8GB of DDR3L and a 250GB mSATA installed.
I purchased this serial cable:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GA ... UTF8&psc=1
and even got this null modem in case I needed it:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/75640 ... UTF8&psc=1
I apply power, the green light appears on the button, I then:
ls -la /dev/ttyUSB*
to see what new device is found, which is ttyUSB0
I then use:
minicom -D /dev/ttyUSB0
to connect to it. I can see a light in the serial cable end light per keystroke, but I can never see any output in my terminal. tried with/without null modem. held in button until it turned yellow (what mode is this?) let up, pushed again it turns green. I never see it boot over the serial line. I am in the dialout group and the group perms on the character device are rw.
What am I missing?
Thanks for any assistance
tetra
serial access on first boot
Re: serial access on first boot
Post by irads »
It is not entirely clear to me if you are
1) trying to connect a device to fitlet
or
2) trying to access fitlet as a device through serial.
If 1): fitlet USB behaves like a normal PC. Make sure you have the drivers for the USB serial adapter and that the serial parameters are set correctly for the device you are connecting.
If 2): fitlet does not have serial console by default. You can configure Linux on fitlet to enable serial console. You will need a keyboard and monitor to set it up first. Then you will have serial console after Linux boots.
1) trying to connect a device to fitlet
or
2) trying to access fitlet as a device through serial.
If 1): fitlet USB behaves like a normal PC. Make sure you have the drivers for the USB serial adapter and that the serial parameters are set correctly for the device you are connecting.
If 2): fitlet does not have serial console by default. You can configure Linux on fitlet to enable serial console. You will need a keyboard and monitor to set it up first. Then you will have serial console after Linux boots.
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