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ssh” for the coniguration name and save it. This saved coniguration
can be reloaded and used anytime, as long as the XU4’s IP address
and hostname remain unchanged. Click on the Open button to start a
session.
Next, reboot the XU4 and wait approximately 2 minutes. If this
is the irst time you are accessing SSH, you may be prompted to trust
the XU4’s RSA key. Select Yes, and you should be prompted for a us-
ername and password, which are typically “odroid” and “odroid”. You
will see a screen presented as shown below.
PuTTY SSH console
Using the USB UART connection, you can access the XU4 sys-
tem as if you had locally opened a terminal instance. While you can-
not view the boot-time log in real-time, you can run a large number of
Linux commands, including dmesg, from this SSH session.
So far, we’ve addressed the case where the host PC system is a
Windows 7+ system. Next, we will present information on the use of a
Ubuntu desktop Linux host system. Most of the steps apply to a host
system running any Linux version, including a server OS.
Linux Host Setup
Access the Linux desktop of the host system and launch a ter-
minal session. Attach the USB cable from the USB UART setup to the
host system. Use the following commands to verify the installation:
$ lsusb
...
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 10c4:ea60 Cygnal Integrated Products, Inc.
CP210x UART Bridge / myAVR mySmartUSB light
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