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How to change the Device-Adapter to use a static IP address...

Jeff Peterson 10 years ago • updated 10 years ago • 1
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I've followed the tutorial on OpenICE.info to image a bealgebone with the provided disk image. I started to set it up but found DHCP is enabled by default. I need to set a static IP. Can you give us a quick "how to".

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Jeff Peterson 10 years ago
The beaglebone is a standard linux computer running Debian. The default user is “debian”; the default password is “debian”. You can access the terminal in a variety of ways; the easiest is plugging in a USB keyboard and a monitor (there’s a mini-HDMI port on the beaglebone). Alternatively if you feel comfortable with SSH, you can access the terminal at debian@192.168.13.2 through the Micro-USB port on the beaglebone. USB networking is enabled by default and separate from Ethernet networking so you can use one to change the other.

The official documentation for Debian networking configuration is here: https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration#Configuring_the_interface_manually

The network setup interfaces configuration file is located at "/etc/network/interfaces”.

With your preferred text editor, change the block in the file /etc/network/interfaces from:
auto eth0
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
to:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
    address 192.0.2.7
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    gateway 192.0.2.254
Obviously use your preferred IP addresses. After you’ve saved your changes to the config file, restart the beaglebone with `sudo reboot`.
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Jeff Peterson 10 years ago
The beaglebone is a standard linux computer running Debian. The default user is “debian”; the default password is “debian”. You can access the terminal in a variety of ways; the easiest is plugging in a USB keyboard and a monitor (there’s a mini-HDMI port on the beaglebone). Alternatively if you feel comfortable with SSH, you can access the terminal at debian@192.168.13.2 through the Micro-USB port on the beaglebone. USB networking is enabled by default and separate from Ethernet networking so you can use one to change the other.

The official documentation for Debian networking configuration is here: https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration#Configuring_the_interface_manually

The network setup interfaces configuration file is located at "/etc/network/interfaces”.

With your preferred text editor, change the block in the file /etc/network/interfaces from:
auto eth0
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
to:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
    address 192.0.2.7
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    gateway 192.0.2.254
Obviously use your preferred IP addresses. After you’ve saved your changes to the config file, restart the beaglebone with `sudo reboot`.

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