Thanks for the info, Gerald. I will keep it and see what I can do with it. In the least I am going get replacement USB ports and power ports and put them in. At the same time I ordered through another seller a "complete" Rev. B board for $30. They say that is Debian on it and not Angstrom, which is fine for me, I can always reflash the BBB to get Angstrom on it again.
Back to the first unit - I noticed about BBB being sold out there, under the name of "AntMiner"(?) and it too is in the same situation - lacking ports and other things. But this unit, the mission parts look like they were never there and the board redesigned at the factory to move the chips around. In my mind, I think somebody set up a bunch of headless servers with these things. If so, without power how does one turn these things on without a USB or Power Jack? Using the GPIO an option for power input? With the R-Pi's it is back to power the unit from the GPIO because it is not regulated from there and one can blow out the board. Again, any help from anyone is greatly appreciated. -- 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 beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/c158ef27-1c25-4449-81a3-051c0c8938d4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
