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I'm trying to connect to a BeagleBoard on Ubuntu using a Serial-to-USB adapter. It is currently being recognized as ttyUSB0 on our system. When I run "screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200" the output just says "Screen is Terminating" and returns us back. When I try using sudo in front of this command, it'll recognize the Beagleboard as the root but the output is all over the place and gives us a variety of characters on the screen.

is there anything that can be done to fix this issue we're having? I've tried connecting through PuTTy as well but I am an error connecting as well.

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  • It seems like your flow control settings might be wrong.
    – Alex Layton
    Jan 12, 2015 at 20:32
  • Might want to try minicom. It'll let you fiddle with the parity and stop bit settings. It looks like \033 is getting garbled.
    – Mark Plotnick
    Jan 12, 2015 at 21:48

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What worked for me in similar situation is removing the modemmanager package from Ubuntu 15.10, as discussed here.

sudo apt-get remove modemmanager

Followed by a reboot. Now I could connect with 

sudo screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200

To avoid using sudo, you must be in the dialout group to which the /dev/tty files belong. I've added myself to the group

sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER

And rebooted the system. Now I am able to connect with simple

screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200

After connecting, the terminal window is blank and I have to press Enter to see the login prompt:

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Good luck!

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Usually garbled text means that your speed/parity/stopbit settings are wrong. I'd always try 9600 baud first and then go up one step at a time with default settings for the other values.

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