On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 8:41 AM, SimGQ <[email protected]> wrote: > Jan, > > The first thing to do, and it proved to be the simplest is use a good > quality short cable, honestly in most of the connection issues we had it > turned out to be cables / drivers / OS version in that order. Other than > that we had one DOA board. It turns out the BBB is very temperamental about > its power supply, we found it impossible to battery power it, something that > took minutes to do on a RPi. > > We decided to move to RPi 2 in the end anyway. > > The BBB's are now performing various domestic duties for the team, we are > all happy with them when working on them in our free time. I like the BBB, > didn't like the support.
Just out of curiosity, how do you see the RPi support differing from the BBB support? And how is the RPi support better? > > > On Friday, May 1, 2015 at 12:05:59 PM UTC+1, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Did you have any luck solving this? >> If yes, can you share it as I have the same problem. >> >> Jan >> >> On Monday, February 2, 2015 at 10:47:59 AM UTC+11, SimGQ wrote: >>> >>> I have wasted a whole weekend trying got connect to my BBB. >>> >>> I am running 10.10 and have trawled the internet reading pages upon pages >>> of cryptic mumbo jumbo, I have uninstalled rivers, updated drivers, replaced >>> drivers, edited pLists, reset Pram, reset SMC, I have done EVERYTHING. I am >>> sick of it at this stage. I have a €100 Windows 7 netbook that connects with >>> no problem to the Beaglebone. >>> >>> For the past 9 months of=r so I have used an Arduino Mega with no >>> connection issues, so why oh why is it so difficult to get this POS board to >>> work? Laziness perhaps? >>> >>> Basically Beaglebone need to get their finger out and fix the driver >>> issues with OS X. >>> >>> OR STOP SELLING THIS BOARD to OS X users. It just doesn't work. >>> >>> My weekend has been a complete waste. >>> >>> > -- > 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. -- 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.
