sheevaplug questions

[Ronald Klop]

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:51:19 +0100, Zoran Kolic <zkolic at sbb.rs> wrote:

> Howdy!
>
>> 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
>
> Perfect! I hardly wait to get the device!
>
>> 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
>
> When I turn the plug on, in fact?
>
> I suspect Attos tried to connect to wrong device name, or it was
> on some older freebsd version? Also, there were more than one version
> of plug, with maybe different hardware parts.
>
> Not related to freebsd: forum posts point to error after changing
> root password on the plug. Someone experienced it? I see no reason
> to have any problem on default ubuntu 9.04 with simple "passwd".
> Almost all posters made "apt-get update first".
>
> Thank you all for reply. Best regards
>
>                                   Zoran

Please provide a link to the forum post. Otherwise I can only guess what  
you mean.

There is no error because of changing the password. But there are some  
thing broken in the default install (missing dir, missing timezone, etc.).  
Follow the commands in this link and you're ready to go.
http://www.plugcomputer.org/plugwiki/index.php/QuickStart

Ronald.