Intel Edison notes

Assuming it's already flashed etc., (I forgot the steps because it's too long ago!)

What I do is connect the Edison via both micro USB's, one will be used as power, the other can be used for connecting to it.

In case the edison is booted you can open the terminal with screen:

sudo screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 115200

Configure the WiFi via configure_edison --wifi

One caveat if you are also on the same network (i.e., your laptop is also on the same network) you may get a conflict via the USB wire. You can see with ifconfig two IP addresses one for the wlan0 and one for usb0, which is probably causing a conflict somehow. Solution is:

ifconfig usb0 down