On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:49 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I have spent the last few days trying to get a Beaglebone Black (revision > A5B) to actually work, so far with limited success. > > If I plug it into my PC, running Linux Mint 16, using the USB client socket > and then enter its IP address (192.168.7.2) I get the BeagleBone 101 page > with the 6 * 3 picture montage. Instead of the green box confirming I'm > connected however, I get an orange box inviting me to to type in the IP > address again. Doing so, and pressing Enter, has no effect. The cursor > continues to flash. There is a possibility this is caused by my security > software but, at the moment, I cannot find the cause. > > I can SSH into the BBB and confirm the OS is installed. The heartbeat and > CPU activity leds are flashing happily. > > Anyone with any suggestions? > > As an aside, has anyone managed to connect to the USB Host connector and the > micro HDMI socket simultaneously? I'd like to replace two Arduinos and their > associated pile of interface circuitry with a BBB to reduce the power > consumption and to speed up the data processing on an 'intelligent' mobile > robot. I'm reluctant to use a Pi as I wanted to publish something different. > > A final aside, just how do you turn a BBB off. The power switch has no > effect and, if some of the comments on the forums are to be believed, > pulling the plug can wreck the software.
It sounds like you have an old broken version... cat /etc/dogtag Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
