On Friday, November 1, 2013 5:13:02 PM UTC-7, Wilfredo Nieves wrote:
>
>   From your screen shot it looks like you are running Win8. Have you 
> disabled driver signature verification to see if the drivers will install?
>

Hi Wil,
This worked! Thanks you very much for pointing this out! This is something 
that should be in the getting started...
Is there any particular reason why the driver is not signed?
The getting started guide is very detailed and very well done, giving lot 
of useful information, but don't even address a major issue that affects a 
growing number of users (Windows 7 and Vista don't have this issue?).

In my opinion, the BBB is an incredible piece of hardware, way superior to 
the RPi. But it's WAY (and I mean WAY WAY WAY) less user friendly than the 
RPi: no guide is up to date, nothing is working like described in the 
guides, Angstrom is a confidential distrib (why choosing this by default? 
power users can install Angstrom by their own! People wants Ubuntu/Debian! 
(I personally prefer Debian when no GUI because Ubuntu's do-release-upgrade 
always breaks everything)), and this is very unfortunate.
This gives a poor first user experience, limiting the growth of the 
community. It looks like the product is made for and by hyper specialized 
nerds.
As I understand, the beagleboard.org projects are community driven, so 
making the product accessible only to a very small part of the population 
is definitively not a good thing.


NB: I tried to edit the getting started guide to add the driver related 
issue in the troubleshooting section, but I guess it's not a wiki -- no 
edit link once logged in.

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