On 01/05/2016 09:48 AM, Troy Dawson wrote:
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@htt-consult.com mailto:rgm@htt-consult.com> wrote:
On 01/05/2016 03:12 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: You can get the converters really cheap on ebay. Every board I have has one permanently installed, so I can always get into the console. I buy them in a 5 unit lot from a china supplier at $5 for the lot. Could you please share the name/URL of the supplier you use, please ? Sure, I just ordered to restock my supply: http://www.ebay.com/itm/5PCS-NEW-CP2102-USB-2-0-to-UART-TTL-6PIN-Module-Serial-Converter-Free-Cables-GM/262136735143?_trksid=p2045573.c100033.m2042&_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20131017132637%26meid%3D782c6d9e9b6347849be5bcf90bc3e659%26pid%3D100033%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D271855289144 But simply put USB TTL Into your ebay search and you will find plenty of these. Choose what best fits your sourcing, quantity, delivery schedule, style. All my arm boards have one permanently installed for console access. I only need 3 wires: TX, RX, GRD. This is why I am upset with the pcDuino Nano Lite in that I cannot get one working on it. I am actually going to rate this board as a "don't buy" for a server platform becuase of it. I look at this as a much better way to manage a lot of servers than a KVM box that I use to use with my Intel servers.Hi Robert, If you have an image around, you might want to try the Fedora 22 image on the pcDuino3 Nano Lite.
No pcDuino3 uboot in F22. The only uboots are:
A10-OLinuXino-Lime beagle highbank panda udoo_quad A10s-OLinuXino-M beaglebone jetson-tk1 paz00 uevm A13-OLinuXino cm_fx6 Mele_A1000 riotboard wandboard_dl A13-OLinuXinoM Cubieboard Mele_A1000G smdkv310 wandboard_quad A20-OLinuXino_MICRO Cubieboard2 Mini-X snow wandboard_solo arndale Cubietruck Mini-X-1Gb snowball Bananapi db-mv784mp-gp origen trimslice
Before F23 the board had a problem in that you couldn't get the uboot information out of HDMI. From what I was told it was only going out the serial console. Maybe with a little tweaking with uboot we can get both HDMI and serial port working.
Yes I can and do use SSH a lot, but there are times when things are not working that you want that physical connection. I also use screen in an SSH session to run a big command, so if I loose my SSH session, I don't have the command prematurely ended. REALLY worth doing on a remote 'yum update'!