How are you powering the BBB ? It almost sounds as if you're powering by
USB, and the BBB is not getting enough power at boot time. Although I do
boot the couple I have ( one REV A one REV C ) with ethernet plugged in and
active. In fact I load the rootfs via ethernet . . .

However,  with that said, with the 3.8.x kernel, I'd expect that you'd get
a kernel ooops when hotplugging the device. So maybe that part of USB
hotplugging has been corrected with the 3.8.47* kernel ?

How much power does the fadecandy pull ?

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Brandon Stafford <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a Rev C Beaglebone Black that I am trying to use with a Fadecandy
> device (https://www.adafruit.com/products/1689). When I plug the
> Fadecandy into the BBB, it is not recognized. No entries appear in dmesg.
> This is odd, because the same Fadecandy board is works fine with my laptop,
> before and after being plugged into the BBB.
>
> The really weird part is that if reboot the BBB with the Fadecandy plugged
> in, the PMIC appears to shutdown just after the login prompt appears on the
> console interface. All the LEDs on the BBB turn off, and the current drops
> to zero. If I reboot the BBB *with nothing attached*, the same thing
> happens again-- I reach the login prompt and then all the lights go out.
> (If I detach the debug cable, I can't be sure that I'm actually reaching
> the login prompt, but the LEDs do still go out after roughly the right
> amount of time.)
>
> Eventually, if I reboot the BBB enough times, it recovers. After that it
> appears to run fine for days.
>
> Anyone have any ideas about what's going wrong? Anyone else have a
> Fadecandy working with a BBB?
>
> Brandon
>
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