>
> *you can power a board by USB but from a special wall adapter with an
> integrated USB socket. As an option*


Yes, and we tried it. It was not enough power. It is also my understanding
that powering the BBB in such a way can not give more than 500ma. It was
not enough power. the canbus would not function at all part of the time. As
soon as I applied power via barrel jack. Then problem went away.

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 4:35 AM, Maxim Podbereznyy <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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,
>>>>>>>
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