OK so I just performed a clean install of Windows 7 and I am still unable to connect to the default web server via USB. The drivers were reinstalled but the Linux USB Ethernet/RNDIS Gadget still says the device cannot start. Does anyone have any suggestions given that this doesn't appear to be a broken OS anymore?
On Thursday, 10 July 2014 22:31:17 UTC-4, William Hermans wrote: > > 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] <javascript:>> > 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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