Its clever, useful, and makes for great demos when it works, but Its not useful enough to be worth hours of Googling and dicking around for what should work out of the box as its purported to be a major feature when you shop for a Beaglebone.. Reliability has been great on my BBW not so much on the BBB/BBG for whatever reason -- it goes beyond simply a kernel version or image issue as I've used the same SD card on all three at various times.
On Friday, March 18, 2016 at 3:55:10 AM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote: > > Wally, I'll give you a hint. In most cases g_ether does not come up, > because it was intended that way. But if you really *really* need it to > work, you should learn how to troubleshoot driver modules, and a thing or > two about USB gadget drivers. I've learned all this myself simply by > googling, from knowing nothing about the subject a few years ago( when I > started learning about it ). > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:34 PM, Wally Bkg <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 5:12:59 PM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote: >> >>> *Please retest with the latest:* >>>> >>>> * >>>> http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Debian_Image_Testing_Snapshots >>>> >>>> <http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Debian_Image_Testing_Snapshots>* >>>> >>>> * Which use the "4.1.18-ti-r52" kernel, some of the usb issues seem to* >>>> * be caused by the RT patchset, so with the "2016-03-13" snapshot we* >>>> * swapped back to the non-rt varient..* >>>> >>>> * I personally know "g_serial" now works out of the box again..* >>>> >>>> * Regards,* >>> >>> >>> Looks like maybe I need to "whip up" a new guide for troubleshooting >>> basic Linux driver issues ? Plus perhaps how to work with the various >>> gadget drivers . . . >>> >> >> I think that would be awesome! especially if it finds its way to the >> elinux.org website. >> >> I've been frustrated with the USB Ethernet gadget's flaky start-up, >> especially on Linux hosts. But I haven't tried 2016-03-13 image yet, >> 2016-02-21 seemed a bit flakier in limited use before I had to take >> a hiatus for other things. >> >> Although 2015-11-12 (with upgrades) has been solid on my BBW running >> pretty much 24/7 since I installed it, rebooting only for kernel upgrade >> and to test the cold start of my application. >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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.
