heh, I just have two laptops that I use lately. One is the general purpose do everything system. Mostly, it just runs VLC to play movies, and then virtualbox where I have an x86 Debian install support "system" for the BBB. I tried dual booting, but for the purpose above . . . it was not working out for me. Mostly because I did not want to install X on my support system.
My other system is fairly minimal. No JRE, or java apps period, no Flash, etc Pretty much just firefox, sublime text 2 for editing code, puTTY, x-chat, winrar. The Debian virtual machine does all the cross compiling, and hosts the BBB's rootfs ( NFS root ), while also acting as a Samba server so I can access files on the BBB or support system via mapped network drive from My "dev machine". It's a fairly complex setup, but I'm pretty happy with it. On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 6:39 PM, ITFK <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the reply William. I was hopeful that maybe I was doing > something dumb or perhaps just missing something that someone here would be > able to easily pickup on and point out to me. I've already started > downloading installers for the software I use frequently in order to have > a (hopefully) quick and easy reinstall this weekend. I intend to image my > OS drive after the reinstall to make things easier the next time this > occurs. I do have a separate drive (not just partitions) for my OS and most > frequently used programs so I shouldn't lose any important data. If I could > convince my fiancee that I need a 5th computer I'd love to have a dedicated > machine for development, but until then I suppose I'll have to live with my > general purpose desktop machine. I do have a bad tendency to download new > software just to play around with it though. Maybe I'll try to be a little > more selective about what I install next time around :) > > On Thursday, 10 July 2014 20:11:09 UTC-4, William Hermans wrote: >> >> Unfortunately, I do not know anyone who could possibly troubleshoot this >> problem without being at the keyboard. Your install is old, and is probably >> broken in one way or another. >> >> I have personally experienced similar issues with the same version of >> Windows, and my own recourse is just to reinstall. One thing you can do to >> help facilitate this is to keep the OS separate from your data ( e.g. two >> partitions, 1 for OS, one for data ). It wont keep the OS from eventually >> loosing its mind, but it should keep your data safe, and make it very >> simple to reinstall. >> >> Also, for the drivers, I have no idea who actually wrote them but they >> seem to be a bit inexperienced with windows drivers. As there should be an >> option to remove existing old drivers. The problem here is when you update >> your BBB sometimes Windows views the hardware differently, and has no idea >> how to interact with it. So, you're required to reinstall the drivers, >> while previous versions stay installed. Confusing Windows even more >> eventually until it just starts to silently fail. >> >> The last time I personally reinstalled was fairly recently. Just before I >> did however, I booted into safe mode, and did some investigation. Between >> the two BBB's we have several MSP430 launchpad's and perhaps an old M3 >> stellaris dev board. I had 10 + old drivers still installed but not being >> used. >> >> Further advice would be to limit what you install on your development >> workstations. The standard K.I.S.S methodology. >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 4:41 PM, ITFK <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> If anyone can provide any insight here I'd definitely appreciate it! I'm >>> strongly considering just reformatting my PC but would prefer to avoid that >>> solution for the time being if possible. >>> >>> On Monday, 7 July 2014 21:09:33 UTC-4, ITFK wrote: >>>> >>>> I purchased a Beaglebone Black (rev. A6) at the end of last year and >>>> was highly unsuccessful in getting the board up and running on my desktop >>>> PC. Unfortunately, due to work and grad. school commitments I haven't made >>>> time to pursue this board any further until now. >>>> >>>> Now onto the actual problem... I am unable to connect to the default >>>> web server over the USB connection on my desktop PC. Up until recently I >>>> was able to get the BBB mounted to my PC, however, after some tweaking last >>>> night I am now unable to do that either. I only tried very briefly to >>>> connect via the RJ45 connector on the board and was unsuccessful in that as >>>> well. I will say that I am able to connect to the BBB over USB on my laptop >>>> very quickly and easily so I really don't expect this to be a hardware >>>> issue. >>>> >>>> My desktop PC is a Windows 7 64-bit machine that hasn't seen a fresh >>>> install in probably 2-3 years. In that time I've run a couple of different >>>> development boards (Arduino and a couple of simple PIC setups) plus a ton >>>> of other random peripherals. I also currently connect to the internet >>>> through a VPN and installed a TAP driver to do so. I have a VM setup >>>> through VirtualBox which has an entry in the network adapters section of >>>> the device manager labeled "VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter". I guess >>>> the takeaway here is that I've been using this install for a few years now >>>> and have install all kinds of different device drivers for various >>>> peripherals that may be conflicting with my BBB. My laptop on the other >>>> hand is a new (<1 year old) Dell which is also running Windows 7 64-bit but >>>> has had far less connected to it. >>>> >>>> As of early last night I was able to connect the BBB via USB to my >>>> desktop PC and see the BBB mounted to my PC. There were entries in the >>>> device manager for the Beaglebone (under Portable Devices), the Gadget >>>> Serial (under Ports COM & LPT), and the Linux RNDIS Ethernet gadget (under >>>> Network Adapters and shows up as Linux USB Ethernet/RNDIS Gadget #2 for >>>> some reason). The RNDIS entry showed device error 10 saying that the device >>>> was not able to start. I have installed the drivers through the BONE_D64 >>>> executable as well as by trying to manually update the driver and point it >>>> to the RNDIS driver located at F:\Drivers\Windows\src\files\RNDIS. >>>> Later last night I tried uninstalling all of the BBB entries I could find >>>> within the device manager (the three I listed above) and used bcdedit to >>>> allow the installation of digitally unsigned drivers thinking that perhaps >>>> Windows was blocking the install somehow. I restarted my PC, installed the >>>> drivers, re-enabled driver integrity checks with bcdedit and restarted my >>>> PC once again. This was unsuccessful and I was still unable to get the >>>> Linux USB Ethernet/RNDIS Gadget to start properly. >>>> >>>> I also tried uninstalling all of the drivers, restarting, installing >>>> Code Composer Studio 5.5.0, and restarting again in the hopes that the >>>> software would be packaged with a digitally signed set of drivers that >>>> would run properly on my machine. Again, this was met with no success and I >>>> was still unable to connect to the BBB's internal web server. >>>> >>>> Lastly, I tried downloading and flashing the BBB with the latest >>>> Angstrom image to see if maybe there was some weird interaction between the >>>> particular version of Linux on my BBB and my PC (despite it seeming >>>> unlikely due to the error with the RNDIS gadget). This last step was again >>>> unsuccessful, but I am still able to connect over USB to the BBB's >>>> webserver on my laptop. >>>> >>>> I'd really like to solve this issue asap but I am out of ideas. I will >>>> probably be reinstalling Windows in about a month once my new SSD is no >>>> longer on back order. I am hoping that there is a solution someone else >>>> knows of that will get me up and running faster than that though. Working >>>> on my laptop is an option but my desktop has far more RAM which makes it >>>> much more appealing when I am running a VM to develop code for the BBB. >>>> Hopefully I've provided enough information for someone to give me an idea >>>> of what else I could try. 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