Connecting to Beaglebone USB Serial port from Ubuntu

Open a Ubuntu termial window, resize it to whatever you want it to be while logged on to the Beaglebone, find the LINES and COLUMNS ($ echo $LINES $COLUMNS) and remember them, then run screen command to get connection to Beaglebone USB serial port:

john@john-ThinkPad-T42:~$ screen /dev/ttyUSB1 115200

.---O---.                                          
|       |                  .-.           o o       
|   |   |-----.-----.-----.| |   .----..-----.-----.
|       |     | __  |  ---'| '--.|  .-'|     |     |
|   |   |  |  |     |---  ||  --'|  |  |  '  | | | |
'---'---'--'--'--.  |-----''----''--'  '-----'-'-'-'
                -'  |
                '---'

The Angstrom Distribution beaglebone ttyO0

Angstrom v2012.03-core - Kernel 3.2.13

beaglebone login: 

After logging on, run the 'stty' command to set lines and columns, like:


$ stty rows 30
$ stty columns 109 

When logging on using ssh, if Beaglebone is on the network, the stty commands are unnecessary. BTW, I use and Asus portable wireless access point connected to the Beaglebone ethernet connector to get on the net.