Doing what you are doing, but in addition to loading 
overlay cape-universal
I also had to load 
overlay cape-bone-iio
to get the ADC to work.

On Friday, September 2, 2016 at 5:36:09 PM UTC-4, Charles Steinkuehler 
wrote:
>
> On 9/1/2016 8:30 PM, joe2456001 wrote: 
> > 
> > When i choose a config fie now the bbb is search for the eeprom of 
> > the cape which i don't have.  Is  this possible? 
>
> You don't need the actual cape (or EEPROM) to load *ANY* BeagleBone 
> cape.  If you do actually have the cape with the properly programmed 
> EEPROM, the device-tree overlay will be automatically loaded by the 
> cape manager on boot.  If you don't have the EEPROM (or cape), you can 
> manually load the overlay at run-time: 
>
> http://elinux.org/Capemgr#Loading_a_Fragment_at_Runtime 
>
> If you are just connecting wires to the BeagleBone and not using a 
> cape, you may find it easier to use the "universal" overlay (which is 
> what I use for the CRAMPS cape) and the config-pin utility, which lets 
> you set the pinmux state for pins at run-time: 
>
> https://github.com/cdsteinkuehler/beaglebone-universal-io 
>
> The universal cape overlay should be installed by default if you start 
> with one of the Machinekit uSD images. 
>
> -- 
> Charles Steinkuehler 
> [email protected] <javascript:> 
>

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