you can power a board by USB but from a special wall adapter with an integrated USB socket. As an option
2015-08-10 23:58 GMT+03:00 William Hermans <[email protected]>: > Hi Maxim, > > The reason why we did this is that the board in question was mounted to a > piece of wood, that is screwed into a wall. So grounding Vbus would not > have been easy. Vusb for us was really easy. Solder the outside pins on a > USB A socket to the outer shielding, then plug a MALE A to mini B cable to > the socket, and BBB. Took a total of like 5 minutes . . . > > Normally I do not worry about any of this, and use USB power. Except this > time for this project we needed the canbus running, and powering via USB > cause the canbus to be less than reliable. > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Maxim Podbereznyy <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> William, or short Vusb to 5V, the result is the same - total stability. >> You can do it if you need to enable the USB-Host function at USB0 >> >> 2015-08-08 23:22 GMT+03:00 William Hermans <[email protected]>: >> >>> So far shorting Vusb to ground seems to be doing the trick. We'll give >>> it a couple days to be "sure". Prior to shorting Vusb to ground, this linux >>> image would reboot several times a day ( 4-5 ) >>> >>> william@xanbustester:~$ uptime >>>> 13:20:26 up 15:28, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.05 >>>> william@xanbustester:~$ uname -r >>>> 4.2.0-rc4-bone2 >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 5:31 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Starting new post . . . >>>> >>>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 5:19 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Ok, I'm stuck in a boot loop, what you see above is what I keep >>>>> getting. Let me explore some. >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected] >>>>> > wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 7:13 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> > These TI kernels support nfsroot ? >>>>>> >>>>>> They should. ;) >>>>>> >>>>>> bone kernel: bone patchset + mainline >>>>>> ti kernel: bone patchset + ti patchset + mainline.. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Robert Nelson >>>>>> https://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. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/maximpodbereznyy >> Company - http://www.linkedin.com/company/mentorel >> Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mentorel.company >> >> -- >> 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. > -- LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/maximpodbereznyy Company - http://www.linkedin.com/company/mentorel Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mentorel.company -- 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.
