Ah ! Hibernation has a bad "habit" of causing problems like this.
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 6:22 AM, Taceant Omnes <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10 September 2015 at 19:53, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > > Probably what should be done first, is check device manager to make sure > the > > device is actually setup properly. I've had Windows change setting on me > > under device properties at least once. For unknown reasons. > > > > By the way, the prolific pl2303hx cables that cost like 1/10th the price > of > > an FTDI work fine too . . . paid like $2.34 with free shipping. > > Hi Williams, > > The Device Manager was showing everythin normal, for example when I > plugged the cable a COM port appeared, and when I removed it the COM > port disappeared. > > Thanks for the Prolific suggestion. > > ---- > > Anyway the problem has been solved. I arrived at work on Friday > morning and the FTDI cable was working properly, while it was not > working the evening before. What happened in between? I put the > computer (Dell Optiplex) in hibernation for the night. I suppose that > because that causes power to be cut-off that fixed the issue (while > rebooting a few times had not fixed it). But something else fixed the > problem as I hibernate the computer every evening. My guess is that > uninstalling the FTDI driver did it (plain re-installing did not fix > it). > > As I said before the FTDI driver state was not completely bad because > it worked with BBW on the same computer, the problem was only with BBB > with the FTDI cable. > > -- > 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.
