sheevaplug questions

[Ronald Klop]

On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:00:25 +0100, Zoran Kolic <zkolic at sbb.rs> wrote:

> Howdy!
> I ordered sheevaplug box and read as much as I could,
> regarding controlling this little node from bsd box.
> Seems that cu works fine on linux, but module should
> be loaded to enable serial emulation from usb host port
> to mini usb port on sheevaplug. Does someone use this
> mini computer and how connects to serial console?
> Almost all of documetation mentions win and linux. I
> suppose would be pretty easy to go further with serial
> line available.
> Btw, there is freebsd port for this plug already. Would
> be fine to try it out.
> Best regards
>
>                          Zoran

Hi,

I have 2 of them and cu works fine.

As root you can do this. The serial-over-usb provides you with 2 serial  
devices. The second one is the console. The first is the JTAG interface to  
flash the bios.

# cu -l cuaU1 -s 115200

The device number in cuaU1 is depending on how many serial devices you  
have over usb.

When you plug the serial-over-usb in you should see something like these  
lines in dmesg/messages.

Dec 28 18:30:17 sjakie kernel: ugen2.4: <FTDI> at usbus2
Dec 28 18:30:17 sjakie kernel: uftdi0: <SheevaPlug JTAGKey FT2232D B> on  
usbus2
Dec 28 18:30:17 sjakie kernel: uftdi1: <SheevaPlug JTAGKey FT2232D B> on  
usbus2

Ronald.