I have used putty via USB on Windows on BB White without issue for more than a year. BB White has a FTDI chip.
Now I am trying to use the BB Black with the FTDI cable recommended in the BBB manual, however it is not working in 95% of my tries. Once it worked when I had the cable working with Putty in Linux and moved the cable to the Windows PC. By not working I mean nothing I type gets displayed, or occasionally only a few garbage characters appear (for example after I power up the BBB). I am using the latest FTDI drivers for Windows (32 bits), the latest version of putty. I have this problem with both Angstrom and Debian on a BBB rev. B and C. I am configuring putty with 115200 baud. I tried Tera Term but no luck either. Also tried with and without external power supply. On Linux things are well enough with BBB and the FTDI cable (though not as good as with BBW). I also tried a UART-USB bridge with CP210x and it is working well enough on BBB in both Windows and Linux. Any ideas on how to make the recommend FTDI cable work reliably on Windows with BBB? -- 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.
