Set Fixed IP Address on BeagleBone Black (Debian)

After a couple of years of serious distractions, I dragged my BeagleBone Blacks out of the cupboard and am putting them to use hosting test software in the office so that people can access them while I am away.

I downloaded the latest Debian because it seems that Arch had not been updated recently

Many things have changed, in particular the connection manager but it is a very simple process.

These commands may require running as root (via Sudo or su)

First find your service name (I have truncated the names of mine for brevity)

# connmanctl services

your_network_id            wifi_000c

Then set the IP address, netmask and gateway address

#connmanctl config wifi_000c --ipv4 manual 192.168.0.200 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1

If you have logged in via SSH and are entering the commands remotely, the BBB will now freeze because you have already changed the IP address and so your connection is frozen.

Reboot and your connection is up on the new address.