Glad it worked for you. My guess is while power is being fed back into the
beaglebone, the USB get puts into another Mode of operation. But I have not
looked into that personally, so again is just a guess.

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Teis Draiby <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you for the responses,
>
> beyond all expectations cutting the red power wire of the USB cable
> connecting the Beaglebone (A/host port) to the USB hub (mini/client port)
> actually did solve the problem. I now have the Maple board serial device
> ttyACM0 available again.
>
> (for information, both the Beaglebone and the USB hub are powered
> independently, and the Maple board is powered through the USB hub.)
>
>
> Thanks for the hint on this, Teis
>
>
> Den tirsdag den 25. november 2014 04.13.14 UTC+1 skrev William Hermans:
>>
>> Expanding on what liyaoshi just posted. I remember someone else having a
>> similar problem but with a different device. His solution was to cut the
>> power wire feeding back from the USB hub back into the beaglebone. However,
>> as said above he / she used a different device, and the device its self was
>> not showing up at all under lsusb output. Also, I'm fairly sure the USB hub
>> was self powered.
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 7:14 PM, liyaoshi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> check your usb hub power supply ?
>>>
>>> 2014-11-25 0:29 GMT+08:00 Teis Draiby <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am currently communicating between my Beaglebone and a Maple board
>>>> via a serial connection directly through a USB cable. This works well.
>>>> (LeafLabs Maple is an Arduino-like board with an on-board USB connector)
>>>>
>>>> Due to power requirements I want to relpace the direct USB connection
>>>> with a power supplied USB hub but when connecting the Maple board this way
>>>> I do no longer see the serial device listed.
>>>>
>>>> I am new to Linux/Debian and am unsure what to do from here, and if
>>>> it's even possible to perform serial communication through an USB hub.
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> -----------------------------------------
>>>> Direct USB(Beaglebone)-to-USB(Maple) serial communication (works)
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> -----------------------------------------
>>>> Beaglebone terminal:
>>>>
>>>> # uname -a
>>>> Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone47 #1 SMP Fri Apr 11 01:36:09 UTC 2014
>>>> armv7l GNU/Linux
>>>>
>>>> # lsusb
>>>> *Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1eaf:0004*
>>>> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
>>>> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
>>>>
>>>> # ls /dev/ttyA*
>>>> */dev/ttyACM0*
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> --------------------------------
>>>> Serial communication through USB hub (missing serial device?)
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> --------------------------------
>>>> Beaglebone terminal:
>>>>
>>>> # lsusb
>>>> *Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0612 Genesys Logic, Inc.    *<- this only
>>>> shows up when using a special hd-USB cable.
>>>> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
>>>> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
>>>>
>>>> # ls /dev/ttyA*
>>>> ls: cannot access /dev/ttyA*: No such file or directory
>>>>
>>>> # ls /dev/ttyU*
>>>> ls: cannot access /dev/ttyU*: No such file or directory
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> --------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any advice from here is greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> thanks, Teis
>>>>
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