Hi all, I have been struggling for the past ten days, as a brand new user, to get my Beaglebone Black rec C (element 14) to run Machinekit on my Win 8.1 PC. To save you the long story, I am totally lost. What I've been able to learn during my time playing with all the software and hardware around me from forums, blogs, sites, personal intuition, etc comes down to:
- successfully flashing an image on a microSD card and then transfer them on to the BB-Black, so that it can run without the flash card inside, - connecting BBB to my PC via puTTY and to the internet (albeit, apparently Google only, as I cannot have puTTy download any packages) Since I am desperately looking for some dummies pointers on the issues I have, I'm giving all the software/hardware coordinates I think are important: The image I'm using is from here <https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#BBW.2FBBB_.28All_Revs.29_Machinekit> My Questions are: 1. BBB does show up on my PC with the default image <https://beagleboard.org/latest-images> it comes out with, and I can go through the instructions available on Beagleboard/getting started webpage <https://beagleboard.org/getting-started#step2> , but once I replace it with another Image <https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#BBW.2FBBB_.28All_Revs.29_Machinekit> , it doesn't seem to appear as a drive on my PC nor anywhere on the Device Manager. However, I can putty it to my PC, and share my PC WiFi with it. Given that I have installed the required drivers from BBoard Getting Started <https://beagleboard.org/getting-started#step2> , Is this normal?!! If not, What is it that causes this? (I have searched high and low online, but haven't come up with a concrete conclusion) 2. I can use my PC WiFi to connect BBB to the Google per online instructions, yet any attempt, via puTTY, to download Machinekit Packages <http://www.machinekit.io/docs/getting-started/install-runtime-packages/> (Just in case, is the link right for my case?!!) from the related website leads in the error: machinekit@beaglebone:~$ sudo apt-get install machinekit-xenomai Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package machinekit-xenomai or machinekit@beaglebone:~$ sudo apt-get install machinekit-posix Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package machinekit-posix 3. I have downloaded the Machinekit Client on my PC. What else do I need? I can see online that I need download tightVNC viewer both on my PC and on the BBB via puTTY. right? Provided that I can do so, do I need to download a VCP (Visual Control Panel) like QtQuickVcp to use in conjunction with Machinekit? Should I install this on my PC or BBB or both?!!! 4. My keyboard is misspelling on ThightVNC window. How can I fix this? Any help, however small, would be appreciated. -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
