Can you try the newly signed drivers? https://github.com/jadonk/beaglebone-getting-started/releases/tag/1.0.1
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 1:21 PM, William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com> wrote: > ITFK, So judging by last comment I would suspect the step that fixed it for > you was Windows update. Since Windows update will see partially installed, > or outdated drivers and update them, sometimes. > > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 1:20 AM, <cshal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I faced similar problem for the BBB that I bought couple of days back. I >> was using Windows XP and Windows 7, but could not identify the exact issue. >> I did reinstalling all the drivers as suggested but did not work. >> >> Finally, I found that under the device manager - Other devices, there was >> "RNDIS" and "CDC serial". Once I installed RNDIS from microsoft >> (http://developer.toradex.com/knowledge-base/how-to-install-microsoft-rndis-driver-for-windows-7) >> along with BONE_DRV.exe (USB driver for windows - step 2. >> http://beagleboard.org/getting-started) resolved the issue. >> >> Thanks for the post. and I hope this additional info might help some more >> people like me. :) >> >> thanks, >> Chandra >> >> On Sunday, 13 July 2014 20:18:57 UTC+5:30, ITFK wrote: >>> >>> 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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