MediaTek LinkIt™ Smart 7688 Developer's Guide
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6)
Now you should be connected to the system console. Press
ENTER
in the Terminal to
bring up the prompt. You'll notice that the prompt has become different from your OS X
Terminal application, it is the LinkIt Smart 7688 prompt and it looks like the following:
root@myLinkIt:/#
7)
You’re ready to make changes to the LinkIt Smart 7688 system through this console.
8)
To exit the system console, type
<CTRL>a + k,
and
y.
•
For Linux:
1)
Install the driver if needed. Check the cable manufacturer’s website for driver
requirements on Ubuntu and installation instructions.
2)
Plug-in the cable and connect the cable to LinkIt Smart 7688.
3)
Open a Terminal application.
4)
Type
ls /dev/ttyUSB*
in the Terminal. You should see a list of devices. Look for something
like
ttyUSB0
where
0
is usually a random identifier. This is the serial device used to access
the system console. For example:
$ls /dev/ttyUSB*
/dev/ttyUSB0
5)
Use the
screen
utility to connect to the serial port and set the baudrate to
57600
. This is
because the baudrate of the system console is
57600
by default. One thing to keep in
mind is that in Ubuntu, the serial devices require
dialout
group permission. Use
sudo
to
elevate the permission, for example:
$sudo screen /dev/ttyUSB0 57600
6)
Now you should be connected to the system console. Press
ENTER
in the Terminal to
bring up the prompt. You'll notice that the prompt has become different from your Linux
Terminal application, it is the LinkIt Smart 7688 prompt and it looks like the following:
root@myLinkIt:/#
7)
You’re ready to make changes to the LinkIt Smart 7688 system through this console.
8)
To exit the system console, type
<CTRL>a + k,
and
y.
4.6.
System configuration tasks
This section describes the system configuration task you will need to perform and how to perform
them in the Web UI or system console, or using a USB memory stick.
4.6.1.
Upgrading Firmware
This section describes how to upgrade the firmware. You can choose from one of the following
two ways to upgrade firmware on LinkIt Smart 7688:
