Twenty odd years ago I discovered gtkterm. You have to build it on openSUSE as they dropped it years ago but a package is available in Ubuntu. Since I discovered gtkterm I have never bothered with any of the others and I have used it as a terminal to Mainframes, SPARC Enterprise systems, ARM, etc. It's a clone of Windows hyperterminal, Configuration --> Port -- set /dev/ttyUSB0, 8-N-1, 115200, save the configuration as default so you don't have to do it again and off you go. It also allows you to save everything to a file should you need to look over it later. https://fedorahosted.org/gtkterm/ Minicom should have been pensioned off decades ago. Regards Sid. On 26/04/14 09:13, lists wrote:
I had some trouble with the USB to serial converter. It used to work on Cutecom. Now the program can't open /dev/ttyUSB0. Anyway, I figured out minicom. Kind of crude but it does the job. [Besides, the 1989's were good times.]
Here is the output from minicom:
U-Boot SPL 2013.04-dirty (Jul 10 2013 - 14:02:53) musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx, SoftConn) musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0 musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4 musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory USB Peripheral mode controller at 47401000 using PIO, IRQ 0 musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx, SoftConn) musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0 musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4 musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory USB Host mode controller at 47401800 using PIO, IRQ 0 OMAP SD/MMC: 0 mmc_send_cmd : timeout: No status update reading u-boot.img reading u-boot.img
U-Boot 2013.04-dirty (Jul 10 2013 - 14:02:53)
I2C: ready DRAM: 512 MiB WARNING: Caches not enabled NAND: No NAND device found!!! 0 MiB MMC: OMAP SD/MMC: 0, OMAP SD/MMC: 1 *** Warning - readenv() failed, using default environment
musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx, SoftConn) musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0 musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4 musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory USB Peripheral mode controller at 47401000 using PIO, IRQ 0 musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx, SoftConn) musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0 musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4 musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory USB Host mode controller at 47401800 using PIO, IRQ 0 Net: <ethaddr> not set. Validating first E-fuse MAC cpsw, usb_ether Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 gpio: pin 53 (gpio 53) value is 1 mmc0 is current device micro SD card found mmc0 is current device gpio: pin 54 (gpio 54) value is 1 SD/MMC found on device 0 ** File not found uEnv.txt ** gpio: pin 55 (gpio 55) value is 1 ** File not found /boot/uImage ** U-Boot#
Looks to me like it found the SD card but doesn't boot. This is using openSUSE-13.1-ARM-JeOS-beaglebone.armv7l-1.12.1-Build33.3.raw.xz
-- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Senior Staff Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
