William, Thank you, I found the problem with the help or Robert Nelson in this thread. https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#label/BeagleBone/158f582b03ed4b08 and yes, sometimes it's just windows being stupid!
Also, thanks for the information on the differences in images. Cheers, Gregg On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 2:17 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > IF you're using Windows, this is most likely a Windows issue. The thing > I've found in the past when dealing with the USB g_ether gadget driver. Is > that when upgrading from one image to another on the Beaglebone you may > have to upgrade the driver on the Windows host side. This is one place > where Windows definitely falls on it's face - Dealing with drivers of this > type. Which it seems that Windows is just "lazy" and would rather keep an > older driver, and fail than double check to make sure it's using the > correct driver, and work. > > There are a few things to check, which may help. > > Run Windows update. > Search the internet for the best way of completely removing drivers for > your version of Windows. > Make sure the device is configured properly under windows network > interfaces. > Make sure g_ether( possibly g_multi ) is actually running and configured > properly on the beaglebone. > > When dealing with Windows, sometimes there there may be no particular > rhyme or reason to why things are not working. When it comes to drivers of > this sort, Windows has a really bad tendency to loose it's brain.Not just > for this external hardware, or even this type of hardware. COM ports will > start behaving like this as well, if a system is not properly and manually > maintained. I've found that completely uninstalling the drivers, making > sure no old instances of these driver are still installed, before > attempting to reinstall them works the best. But the steps between Windows > version can vary, and require a lot of time to perform. You have to be > meticulous. Sometimes booting into safe mode, removing the drivers, > removing all old instances of similar drivers. Then once completely clean, > start over from scratch. Then if the driver still does not work, you may > have to run Windows update to "complete the deal". > > As for the images, the LXDE or similar images are going to have X, and > LXDE etc on them. Then the console images are going to be fairly minimal, > with minimal tools installed for connectivity( ssh server, etc ). The IoT > images, whcih I've not used at all myself. As I understand it are similar > to the console images, but with Nodejs, NodeRED, etc, pre installed, and > working properly. > > > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Gregg Harrington < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Hello, >> >> I have seen several images at https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.o >> rg/testing/2016-12-12/iot/ and I am wondering which one is best. I see >> the BBBL and BBB versions. Is one of these geared toward wireless? I have >> been downloading the BBB one but having issues with my BBBWL after flashing >> it. I can't get the USB -> ethernet bridge to work (which worked fine when >> I received the board). >> >> Cheers, >> >> Gregg >> >> -- >> 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]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms >> gid/beagleboard/1d028e37-fcac-4d9d-9ccb-69a106c6a32f%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/1d028e37-fcac-4d9d-9ccb-69a106c6a32f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/beagleboard/CALHSORok3%2BJ5BfcLdGMDChPebnJnU1JZLjzneV > Bir666MBKc-g%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CALHSORok3%2BJ5BfcLdGMDChPebnJnU1JZLjzneVBir666MBKc-g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAPRd-Cm%2BTH7uCs3rf0z_mSNAxFO5ebGqrxNBptd7vVZgRkoFMA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
