Thanks William. I'll try out your suggestions when I get to the office.

On Monday, December 5, 2016 at 8:51:37 PM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote:
>
> Nope, actually that persons overlay file is wrong. So yeah I don;t know 
> time to learn Linux and start troubleshooting your problems ;)
>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 8:47 PM, William Hermans <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Actually the last bit probably wont work because:
>>
>> william@beaglebone:~$ ls /sys/devices/platform/ocp/*.gpio/gpio/
>> /sys/devices/platform/ocp/44e07000.gpio/gpio/:
>> gpiochip0
>>
>> /sys/devices/platform/ocp/4804c000.gpio/gpio/:
>> gpiochip32
>>
>> /sys/devices/platform/ocp/481ac000.gpio/gpio/:
>> gpiochip64
>>
>> /sys/devices/platform/ocp/481ae000.gpio/gpio/:
>> gpiochip96
>>
>> You wont get an actual gpio bank number. Just the bank offset. So going 
>> by this beaglebone blogpost: 
>> http://www.bonebrews.com/temperature-monitoring-with-the-ds18b20-on-a-beaglebone-black/
>>
>> gpios = <&gpio2 13 0>;  /* P8.11*/
>>
>> I show P8.11 as gpio1_13 in my pinmux pdf file. So yes, 4.x versus 3.8.x, 
>> for gpio banks are definitely off by one. Looks like for 3.8.x kernel gpio 
>> banks start at gpio1, and I know for a fact that gpio banks in 4.x start at 
>> gpio0.
>>
>> Anyway, very good chance your overlay file is slightly wrong. Based on 
>> off by one gpio bank.
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 8:28 PM, William Hermans <[email protected] 
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 7:30 PM, acheesehead <[email protected] 
>>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Tried your workflow today without success. Everything is OK up to the 
>>>> lsmod | grep w1 step. I only get the w1_gpio entry. I am not a Linux 
>>>> kernel 
>>>> expert, so I don't know how to troubleshoot why the other entries aren't 
>>>> showing up.
>>>>
>>>> I didn't see any activity on the oscilloscope either.
>>>>
>>>  
>>> Then, you must be using a 3.8.x kernel. Right ? But here are the modules 
>>> needed at least on a 4.x kernel:
>>>
>>> william@beaglebone:~/dev/bb.org-overlays$ lsmod |grep w1
>>> w1_therm                4886  0
>>> w1_gpio                 3764  0
>>> wire                   35398  2 w1_gpio,w1_therm
>>>
>>> All three of those need to be loaded in order for the DS18B20 to work. 
>>> So, try manually loading those via modprobe. SO let's take a look at a rPI 
>>> blogpost: 
>>> https://www.modmypi.com/blog/ds18b20-one-wire-digital-temperature-sensor-and-the-raspberry-pi
>>>
>>> Much of this blog post is going to be RaspberryPI centric. 
>>> *dtoverlay=w1-gpio, 
>>> */boot/config.txt, etc. However if you scroll down to the *"Programming" 
>>> *part of the blog post. This person talks about loading the required 
>>> kernel modules( also note that kernel version is 3.6.11 ) Using modprobe. 
>>> So if you run those two modprobe commands, and then list the contents of 
>>> /sys/bus/w1/devices:
>>>
>>> *william@beaglebone:~$* ls /sys/bus/w1/devices/
>>> 28-00000647ddf6  w1_bus_master1
>>>
>>> And you get output like the above. 1-wire *is* working, and the 1-wire 
>>> master ( beaglebone ) has detected a 1-wire slave device. It's working. 
>>> However, if you load both the above 1-wire kernel modules, and there is 
>>> nothing in /sys/bus/w1/devices, then something is wrong. I'd have to say at 
>>> this point, if you do not get an error about a missing module, that you 
>>> have your pin muxed incorrectly, or not properly connected to the pin. 
>>>
>>> Now if you get an error on the command line from trying to load either 
>>> of those two 1-wire modules. Chances are pretty good you haven't compiled 
>>> in the given proper 1-wire support. In fact, I do believe there is a whole 
>>> section in menu-config for 1-wire devices. You may actually have to 
>>> recompile your kernel with support for the DS18B20 1-wire device . . .
>>>
>>> Another issues between 4.x, and 3.8.x kernels is that device enumeration 
>>> was different for some devices. So . . . It is entirely possible, in your 
>>> overlay, that the GPIO bank you're passing in as parameters is off by one. 
>>> How can be test for this ? On 4.x kernels . . .
>>>
>>> *william@beaglebone:~$* ls /sys/devices/platform/ocp
>>> 40300000.ocmcram          48042000.timer    
>>> 480ca000.spinlock              49800000.tptc      driver_override
>>> 40302000.ocmcram_nocache  48044000.timer    
>>> 4819c000.i2c                   49900000.tptc      modalias
>>> 44e07000.gpio             48046000.timer    
>>> 481ac000.gpio                  49a00000.tptc      ocp:l4_wkup@44c00000
>>> 44e09000.serial           48048000.timer    
>>> 481ae000.gpio                  4a100000.ethernet  of_node
>>> 44e0b000.i2c              4804a000.timer    
>>> 481d8000.mmc                   4c000000.emif      power
>>> 44e35000.wdt              4804c000.gpio     
>>> 48200000.interrupt-controller  53100000.sham      subsystem
>>> 44e3e000.rtc              48060000.mmc      
>>> 48310000.rng                   53500000.aes       uevent
>>> 47400000.usb              480c8000.mailbox  
>>> 49000000.edma                  56000000.sgx
>>>
>>> *william@beaglebone:~$* ls /sys/devices/platform/ocp/44e07000.gpio/gpio/
>>> gpiochip0
>>>
>>> And the very first gpio address entry in this case was the lowest gpio 
>>> bank. So, if you investigate the equivalent directory in 3.8.x, you should 
>>> be able to check all gpio banks, to see what the actual lowest gpio bank 
>>> is. Do also keep in mind that /sys/devices/platform/ocp/ will be 
>>> different in 3.8.x. So you'll have to poke around a bit. Unless someone 
>>> else posts here and gives you the proper path. I don't remember what it is.
>>>
>>> Anyway, there is another option. You can upgrade your kernel to a newer 
>>> version. Which, yes, will probably mean you'll also have to either flash a 
>>> newer image, or run a newer image from sdcard.
>>>
>>
>>
>

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