Raspberry Pi console access over USB via Serial
2017-Dec-14, Thursday 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chebeI picked up the Adafruit PiUART for console access over USB (incredibly useful when something is wrong with networking and you don't have a monitor handy).
1. Log into Pi and run
2. Connect to laptop. Turn on.
3. In Windows open Device Manager, find COM port number.
4. Open Putty, stay on main Session page, but select Serial radio button under Connection Type. Put in your COM port number under Serial line, and 115200 under Speed. Click Open.
5. A terminal window pops up, but is blank, and does nothing. Still attached, turn off Pi, and turn back on again. The window will be displaying the usual boot up info you'd see if a monitor was attached.
Apparently "That's because there's a serial console defined in the /boot/cmdline.txt".
But at least it's working.
1. Log into Pi and run
sudo raspi-config: Interfacing options > Serial > Would you like a login shell to be accessible over serial? > Yes, Finish and reboot.2. Connect to laptop. Turn on.
3. In Windows open Device Manager, find COM port number.
4. Open Putty, stay on main Session page, but select Serial radio button under Connection Type. Put in your COM port number under Serial line, and 115200 under Speed. Click Open.
5. A terminal window pops up, but is blank, and does nothing. Still attached, turn off Pi, and turn back on again. The window will be displaying the usual boot up info you'd see if a monitor was attached.
Apparently "That's because there's a serial console defined in the /boot/cmdline.txt".
But at least it's working.
