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unable to connect google coral using OTG port


When I'm running google coral using serial port I'm able to run demo apps but when I'm trying to run google coral using data port (type c cable) I'm unable to connect with a dev board

rahul@ubuntu:~$ mdt shell Waiting for a device... Connecting to wishful-yarn at 192.168.101.2 Key not present on wishful-yarn -- pushing

It looks like you're trying to connect to a device that isn't connected to your workstation via USB and doesn't have the SSH key this MDT generated. To connect with MDT shell you will need to first connect to your device ONLY via USB.


Solution

  • The problem is caused by the PyPI package mendel-development-tool itself. This error is raised by the 'NonLocalDeviceError' exception as can be seen in line 83 of command.py in the code of the package. Whenever the IP of the device does not start with 192.168.100, this exception is raised by sshclient.py (in line 86). This worked for the last Release of Mendel Linux (chef), since the IP address of the usbnet connection was 192.168.100.2. In my case the new Release of Mendel (day), which came lately in November 2019 had the IP 192.168.101.2. To check the IP check the output of

    mdt devices
    

    If you installed the package using pip3 as user, like it is recommended by the documentation (pip3 install --user mendel-development-tool), this can be fixed by a quick local patch:

    1. Open the file in your favourite text editor

      vim $HOME/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mdt/sshclient.py +86
      
    2. Replace line 86, which is

          if not self.address.startswith('192.168.100'):
              raise NonLocalDeviceError()
      

      by the following code

          if not self.address.startswith('192.168.10'):
              raise NonLocalDeviceError()
      

    Most likely the authors might update the PyPI package to this solution, since the master branch of command.py already has the proposed code. Once the package has been updated you just have to update it on your host.

    pip3 install --upgrade mendel-development-tool