This lesson closely follows the ‘Getting Started’ documentation on the BeagleBone web site. http://beagleboard.org/Getting%20Started
Overview
This lesson closely follows the ‘Getting Started’ documentation on the BeagleBone web site. http://beagleboard.org/Getting%20Started
You Will Need
http://www.adafruit.com/products/1278
Preparation
You can plug your board in now if you like. After a while, the blue LEDs should flicker and the LED nearest the edge of the board will flash in a ‘heart beat’ pattern.
Installing Drivers (Windows)
On Windows 64 bit, install this: http://beagleboard.org/static/Drivers/Windows/BONE_D64.exe
Windows 32 bit, http://beagleboard.org/static/Drivers/Windows/BONE_DRV.exe
Installing Drivers (Mac)
For the BBB to be able to do ad hoc networking with your computer, there is nothing to install on the BBB itself. Its all set up and ready to go. However, to be able to run this on a Mac, you will need to install some drivers.
There are two things to install when using a Mac, the network driver which is here: http://beagleboard.org/static/Drivers/MacOSX/RNDIS/HoRNDIS.pkg and the serial driver which is here: http://beagleboard.org/static/Drivers/MacOSX/FTDI/FTDI_Ser.dmg
Once the drivers are installed open Network from System Preferences and you should see your BBB showing up as a network connection.
Installing Drivers (Linux)
This script will create a new file called 73-beaglebone.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/You will probably need to run the script as superuser.
Browsing Your BeagleBone
The BBB will have an IP address, so using Chrome or Firefox (not Internet Explorer) connect to the URL http://192.168.7.2
You should see a helpful introductory web page served by the BeagleBoard itself.
SSH with Windows and Putty
If you are a Windows user, then you will need to download Putty from here: http://www.putty.org/.
Having downloaded and installed Putty (its a single file called putty.exe), run the program.
SSH on Mac and Linux
ssh 192.168.7.2 -l root
Next Steps
About the Author.
As well as contributing lots of tutorials about Raspberry Pi, Arduino and now BeagleBone Black, Simon Monk writes books about open source hardware. You will find his books for sale here at Adafruit.