I finally got it working (with the smaller connector board) but it took a few tries on Mac OS (Yosemite). Here are a few issues to look out for:
- The cable connections make a difference. I had a bunch of micro-USB cables around. Plugged two of them in but noticed one of them not seating straight. Thought nothing of it, but started getting repeated gray-screen system crashes on the Mac every time I unplugged the USB cable. Changed both cables with ones that looked like they fit better (went straight in, seated well) and the crashes went away.
- When I plugged the two wires directly into a Macbook Air I could see the Edison mounted as a device, but could not connect to it via the 'screen' command. But if I connected the Edison power cable (the one closest to the 2-pin jumper) to an external power supply or a powered USB 3 hub, I couldn't mount the Edison but could login via screen. So I ended up copying all the files over with two cables connected to the Mac, shutting down BOTH the Mac and the Edison, plugging the Edison power to a hub, then restarting everything. Once I got in with 'screen' I could do a 'reboot ota' and it all worked fine from there on.
- The documentation on the Edison site with the screen caps is showing the newest version of the software, so some of the 'configure_edison' commands aren't there on the shipping version. One you load up the new version, however, everything looks the same as the screen tutorials. Getting there, though, is a pain.
Now I run the Edison with the power cable NOT connected to the Mac and it works fine. To transfer big files to the Edison instead of using the mounted storage trick I copy to Dropbox and use 'curl' to get it from the network.
Ok, HTH.
