BeagleBone sharing Mac's Internet connection
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Stack Overflow users link it when answering how to get a BeagleBone Black online through a Mac's USB connection.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2014 to 2017.
What it is
A two-minute how-to from the BeagleBoard channel showing how to share a Mac's Internet connection with a BeagleBone over USB. It covers ejecting the USB drive, enabling Internet Sharing on the Mac, and running 'udhcpc -i usb0' on the board over the serial connection.
What people said
Recommends wees · 2014-05 · Stack Overflow · on “Steps to share internet with BeagleBone Black using USB from OS X”
After some try-and-erroring, here's what worked for me: 1. Watch this video: [this video] 2. If your BBB was shipped after November 2013, instead of screen /dev/tty.usb*B 115200 use screen /dev/tty.usb* 115200 and actually you need to go to the /dev directory and check which of the tty.usbXXX is available for your BBB and screen it. In my case it was tty.usb131 for example 3. You continue the steps just like in the video until opkg update which would be the thing you need to do over the internet And that it's all about it.
Cites Brad Nicholas · 2015-06 · Stack Overflow · on “Steps to share internet with BeagleBone Black using USB from OS X”
Your SSH session is getting stuck because you're connected to usb0 and the udhcpc command changed the IP address for it! At this point there's nothing listening on the other end of your ssh session, so your local computer's ssh client eventually fails with the broken pipe error and exits. An obvious workaround is to connect via tty.usbserial instead of ssh to the IP address. You'd think the usb port's assigned IP shouldn't be changing though. Read on to understand what's happening. Most people using a BBB for the first time attach them directly to their Internet connected computer using the supplied USB cable. It's exactly what the BBBs designers intended for you to do, and they've done a fa
Cites Jon Pellant · 2017-12 · Stack Overflow · on “PocketBeagle Debian internet over USB”
I am trying to follow directions from the book Exploring Beaglebone [LINK] . I have also viewed this video [this video] which is wrong OSes. I have also read some posts ( one [LINK] , two [LINK] ). Observed anomalies: Network Preferences shows a warning of a self-assigned IP address and inability to support internet sharing: macOS Network Preferences [LINK] Debian does not have a 'udhcpc' command but the following was executed: Screen output [LINK] Has anyone been able to do internet over USB on macOS 10.13.2 and Debian 9 IoT? tnx, Jon