I had a chance to look at my problem again and I managed to get my BBB connected properly. After the reinstall I went through the normal 3-4 sessions of Windows updates and restarts to install them. Then I updates my motherboard BIOS and installed all of the applicable drivers from the Gigabyte website. Two of the things I did were to install the latest Realtek Ethernet driver for my motherboard and run the Intel INF update utility. I still think my old Windows 7 install was probably causing me problems due to how old it was and all of the devices I had installed during that time, however, I also should have installed all of the appropriate drivers from the Gigabyte website before posting that my problem wasn't solved.
At this point I see all three devices listed in the device manager (Gadget Serial under Ports, BEAGLEBONE under Portable Devices, and Linux USB Ethernet/RNDIS Gadget under Network Adapters) and they are listed as working properly. Hopefully if anyone else has a similar issue they'll be able to get something useful out of this thread. Unfortunately, I don't know exactly which step solved my issues but updating BIOS and drivers seems like a good first step. On Saturday, 12 July 2014 09:58:14 UTC-4, ITFK wrote: > > 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 <tyle...@gmail.com> 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 <tyle...@gmail.com> 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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