[FAILED] Failed to start Configure USB flashing port for device mode

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Directly connect to Jetson TX2 over Ethernet

Been looking at some tutorials online, but they haven’t been very helpful or worked. All I’m trying to do is access the Jetson from a laptop directly through an ethernet cable. But so far the farthest I can get is the ability to ping the Jetson IP, but then the SSH connection is refused. If I connect the Jetson to a network, then I can SSH into it fine; it’s just that the eventual use case will be in the field where it will not have an existing internet connection we can use to connect to it, s…

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