From 683935870d5b7d01e8793811ea161239fa084e69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Francis Rowe
+ You can also use a serial FTDI debug board, with GNU Screen (example):
+ # screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200
+ images/x200/ftdi.jpg and
+ images/x200/ftdi_port.jpg
+ show an FTDI debug board in use. With screen you can then login as root, like you would using SSH.
+ Using this, you can also see text output (from kernel, etc) when booting the machine.
+
+ You can also simply connect the USB cable from the BBB to another computer and a new network interface will appear,
+ with it's own IP address: this is the BBB. You can SSH into that. Or, you can (example):
+ # screen /dev/ttyACM0 115200
+
Since it's a bare board (no case) and you are also touching inside your X200, you should be earthed/grounded. images/x200/strap.jpg shows how I earthed myself. This is to prevent you from causing any ESD damage. The surface that you place components on should also be earthed/grounded. -- cgit v0.9.1