More Presents! A Burner and an Ethernet Cable

Amazon has delivered an ethernet cable and an SD-card burner, so my equipment cup overfloweth.

I scrounge an old backpack out of the closet, repurpose it, and turn it into an equipment bag. I spend much of the lunch hour re-bagging, labelling, and rearranging. Cleanliness is next to Godliness.

I burn Karim's default distro onto one of my new SD cards with the burner, to verify that it works. Yup.

Next, I connect the CAT-6 cable. Now to bring up the network.

I'm going to have a little, dedicated 192.168.1 network, with the board as the "gateway".  I set my host up like this:

1. Bring up Network Manager (Launcher > Manager)
2. Create a new connection (Edit Connections > Add > IPV4 Settings > Add)
3. Make the address static, with sensible values (Connection name: beaglebone / Method: manual / Address: 192.168.1.2 / Gateway: 192.168.1.1)

Okay, that should do it. I go up to the network manager icon at the top of the screen and select "beaglebone". Doesn't connect.

Can I ping the box? Nope.

Oh. Wait. I need to have networking on the target, too.

I "adb shell" into the target, then magically incant

# netcfg eth0 up# ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

Hah! Now I can connect and ping the target.

More networking exploration will have to wait until next time.