[beagleboard] BBB powers from USB but not from 5VDC, cape powers only with 5VDC

2015-07-12 Thread john
I gather the BBB can be powered either by USB or by 5VDC, but not both. So I don't understand. My BBB does not power up at all with 5VDC connected. As soon as I connect USB, however, it boots right up. Meanwhile, I have a cape (CBB-Relay) that requires 5VDC. It doesn't work unless I then

Re: [beagleboard] BBB powers from USB but not from 5VDC, cape powers only with 5VDC

2015-07-12 Thread Gerald Coley
Sounds like the board has been damaged and needs to be repaired. Gerald On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 9:37 PM, j...@b-wells.us wrote: I gather the BBB can be powered either by USB or by 5VDC, but not both. So I don't understand. My BBB does not power up at all with 5VDC connected. As soon as I

Re: [beagleboard] Debian 8.1 / kernel 4.1.x test releases are unstable

2015-07-12 Thread 'dl4mea' via BeagleBoard
Results from overnight test: I used the worst rebooters for some tests: (1) System bb1cf1 got installed with 3.19.3-bone4: *no more reboot* uptime 03:23:37 up 14:50, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05 (2) System bb6c1f: installed with 4.1.1-ti-r2 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jul 8 17:03:29 UTC

Re: [beagleboard] Debian 8.1 / kernel 4.1.x test releases are unstable

2015-07-12 Thread William Hermans
Anyway, guys, give me an idea of what you're doing on these boards. When you get random system reset, and I'll test here too. I have a couple free beaglebones I can run arbitrary tests on at the moment. On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 12:19 PM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: I've had this, or

Re: [beagleboard] Debian 8.1 / kernel 4.1.x test releases are unstable

2015-07-12 Thread 'dl4mea' via BeagleBoard
W: Failed to fetch http://repos.rcn-ee.com/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-armhf/Packages Hash Sum mismatch Solution: http://askubuntu.com/questions/41605/trouble-downloading-packages-list-due-to-a-hash-sum-mismatch-error Simply: rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* -- For more options,

Re: [beagleboard] Debian 8.1 / kernel 4.1.x test releases are unstable

2015-07-12 Thread William Hermans
I've had this, or something similar happen to me a few times. When I did apt-get update again right after, it succeeded. But I'm still not sure of the cause. On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 11:48 AM, 'dl4mea' via BeagleBoard beagleboard@googlegroups.com wrote: If I look on one - but not the target

Re: [beagleboard] Debian 8.1 / kernel 4.1.x test releases are unstable

2015-07-12 Thread Graham Haddock
Hi William: Doing nothing with the board. It is just sitting on the side connected to +5V power and Ethernet. So, for example, late last night (Central US time) I loaded bone-debian-8.1-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2015-07-05-4gb.img onto a trusted uSD card expanded the memory using gparted to the full 16GB,

Re: [beagleboard] Debian 8.1 / kernel 4.1.x test releases are unstable

2015-07-12 Thread William Hermans
*Hi William:* *Doing nothing with the board. It is just sitting on the side connected to +5V power and Ethernet.* *So, for example, late last night (Central US time) I loaded bone-debian-8.1-lxqt-4gb-* *armhf-2015-07-05-4gb.img* *onto a trusted uSD card expanded the memory using

[beagleboard] USB networking not working

2015-07-12 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Hi all, I have been using a BBB with a Debian Testing system for some time but now I've run into a problem. When I connect the BBB via the USB cable to my linux system (running Debian Testing) the USB networkng device no longer comes up as ethX, but instead comes up as: enx9059af57444e:

Re: [beagleboard] Debian 8.1 / kernel 4.1.x test releases are unstable

2015-07-12 Thread William Hermans
ah I see. following my own advice comes in handy sometimes . . . as in GitBisect. A bit out of my abilities. On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 1:41 PM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: *Yeah, I think the transition to linear irq domain (added at 3.18) made cpsw* * a little extra flaky. Plus the

Re: [beagleboard] Debian 8.1 / kernel 4.1.x test releases are unstable

2015-07-12 Thread William Hermans
Thanks Peter for the in depth explanation. I was actually just reading a very detailed blog post by a person bug hunting in fedora 20 . . . the blog post could be considered a book in of its self, and wow yes, lots of learning to do before I can achieve the same myself. On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at

Re: [beagleboard] Debian 8.1 / kernel 4.1.x test releases are unstable

2015-07-12 Thread 'dl4mea' via BeagleBoard
I now have one of the worst case rebooters running on 3.19.3-bone4 (already installed 8h ago) root@bb1cf1:~# lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description:Debian GNU/Linux 8.1 (jessie) Release:8.1 Codename: jessie root@bb1cf1:~# uname -a Linux

Re: [beagleboard] Debian 8.1 / kernel 4.1.x test releases are unstable

2015-07-12 Thread William Hermans
Something else that might help troubleshoot this issue if we can get a snapshot of each system by way of *ps aux *and store them somewhere for later examination. maybe pastebin. http://pastebin.com/ydneAtne On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 12:50 PM, 'dl4mea' via BeagleBoard beagleboard@googlegroups.com

Re: [beagleboard] Debian 8.1 / kernel 4.1.x test releases are unstable

2015-07-12 Thread William Hermans
*Yeah, I think the transition to linear irq domain (added at 3.18) made cpsw* * a little extra flaky. Plus the new omap_8250 serial driver is not bug-free;* * just found a flow control bug in the h/w last week.* * I've had ssh shells go sideways on occasion, but not with that kind of* *

Re: [beagleboard] Debian 8.1 / kernel 4.1.x test releases are unstable

2015-07-12 Thread Peter Hurley
On 07/12/2015 04:41 PM, William Hermans wrote: /Yeah, I think the transition to linear irq domain (added at 3.18) made cpsw/ /a little extra flaky. Plus the new omap_8250 serial driver is not bug-free;/ /just found a flow control bug in the h/w last week./ // /I've had

[beagleboard] Re: Start QT Application on bootup on Beaglebone Black

2015-07-12 Thread Julien Charton
Dear Micka, could you please tell us more about your BBB starting QT at bootup ? A description of your configuration would be very helpful best regards, julien On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 at 9:57:58 AM UTC+2, Mickae1 wrote: you should switch to debian, you will have more help from the

Re: [beagleboard] Debian 8.1 / kernel 4.1.x test releases are unstable

2015-07-12 Thread William Hermans
By the way, currently on sdcard I am running wheezy 7.8 I believe. debian@beaglebone:~$ cat /etc/dogtag BeagleBoard.org Debian Image 2015-03-01 debian@beaglebone:~$ uname -a Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone70 #1 SMP Fri Jan 23 02:15:42 UTC 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux So I could apt-get install

Re: [beagleboard] Debian 8.1 / kernel 4.1.x test releases are unstable

2015-07-12 Thread Peter Hurley
On 07/12/2015 03:35 PM, Graham Haddock wrote: Hi William: Doing nothing with the board. It is just sitting on the side connected to +5V power and Ethernet. So, for example, late last night (Central US time) I loaded bone-debian-8.1-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2015-07-05-4gb.img onto a trusted uSD card

[beagleboard] measuring Network Speed with BBB

2015-07-12 Thread BBBUser
There is a Make Project that runs on BBB, that measures the speed of the network at the moment. Lined below: http://makezine.com/projects/internet-speedometer/ As per my understanding, IP packets are delivered directly through a router sockets to the respective computer connected to the

[beagleboard] 4.2-rc1-bone1

2015-07-12 Thread Jan Kinkazu
Hi all. Could you tell me please if this patch: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-omap/msg119622.html is going to be applied when I build kernel with bb-kernel? Kind Regards -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: [beagleboard] Linux beaglebone 4.1.1-bone9 kernel and set serial

2015-07-12 Thread Peter Hurley
Hi Jan, On 07/11/2015 06:30 PM, Jan Kinkazu wrote: HI all. Has anyone made setserial working on BBB? root@beaglebone:~# setserial -g /dev/ttyO[124] /dev/ttyO1, UART: undefined, Port: 0x, IRQ: 156 /dev/ttyO2, UART: undefined, Port: 0x, IRQ: 157 /dev/ttyO4, UART: undefined, Port:

Re: [beagleboard] USB networking not working

2015-07-12 Thread Robert Nelson
On Jul 12, 2015 3:30 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo mle+...@mega-nerd.com wrote: Hi all, I have been using a BBB with a Debian Testing system for some time but now I've run into a problem. When I connect the BBB via the USB cable to my linux system (running Debian Testing) the USB networkng

Re: [beagleboard] 4.2-rc1-bone1

2015-07-12 Thread Peter Hurley
Those patches are being re-worked after review (with the possible exception of patch 1/7). Regards, Peter Hurley On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Jan Kinkazu fes...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all. Could you tell me please if this patch: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-omap/msg119622.html

Re: [beagleboard] Debian 8.1 / kernel 4.1.x test releases are unstable

2015-07-12 Thread William Hermans
*(3) System bb4f8e still has 4.1.0-rc8-bone9 #1 Wed Jun 17 00:05:43 UTC 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux: but cpufreq-set -g performance: no more reboot* Interesting . . . If memory serves correctly, that was the fix for an older kernel. So possibly older code crept into the newer ? On Sun, Jul 12,

[beagleboard] Debian 8.1 / kernel 4.1.x test releases are unstable

2015-07-12 Thread Graham
I have several Rev C BBB units, that have been in use enough to be considered trusted hardware. All of them, running Debian 8.1 kernel 3.14 are rock solid. By that, I mean that they will run for months without problems. Maybe longer, I have not left them undisturbed for any longer than that.

Re: [beagleboard] Debian 8.1 / kernel 4.1.x test releases are unstable

2015-07-12 Thread Robert Nelson
On Jul 12, 2015 12:20 PM, 'dl4mea' via BeagleBoard beagleboard@googlegroups.com wrote: Instabilities have been found by just flashing elinux.org images from, for example, http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Jessie_Snapshot_console, in special Flasher: (console) (BeagleBone

[beagleboard] Re: Debian 8.1 / kernel 4.1.x test releases are unstable

2015-07-12 Thread 'dl4mea' via BeagleBoard
I absolutely agree with Graham's report. I also saw plenty of unexplainable resets of the Beaglebone, same as Graham says when just having them on the table, naked, no cape, just flashed with fresh image. My power supplies are 5V/2A from a german quality vendor and I'm using them in hundreds,

Re: [beagleboard] Debian 8.1 / kernel 4.1.x test releases are unstable

2015-07-12 Thread Peter Hurley
On 07/12/2015 10:17 AM, Graham wrote: I have several Rev C BBB units, that have been in use enough to be considered trusted hardware. All of them, running Debian 8.1 kernel 3.14 are rock solid. By that, I mean that they will run for months without problems. Maybe longer, I have not left

Re: [beagleboard] SD Card via USB

2015-07-12 Thread Jim Lill
As a code newbie, I guess I need a 1 2 3 type cookbook -- 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

Re: [beagleboard] Debian 8.1 / kernel 4.1.x test releases are unstable

2015-07-12 Thread 'dl4mea' via BeagleBoard
Instabilities have been found by just flashing elinux.org images from, for example, http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Jessie_Snapshot_console, in special *Flasher: (console) (BeagleBone Black eMMC)* and letting the board idle with network + serial console connected Also, is

Re: [beagleboard] Debian 8.1 / kernel 4.1.x test releases are unstable

2015-07-12 Thread 'dl4mea' via BeagleBoard
Instabilities have been found by just flashing elinux.org images from, for example, http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Jessie_Snapshot_console, in special *Flasher: (console) (BeagleBone Black eMMC)* and letting the board idle with network + serial console connected Also, is

Re: [beagleboard] SD Card via USB

2015-07-12 Thread Jim Lill
I am not trying to plug in a thumbdrive. I want to boot from the BBB's onboard flash and have the SDcard appear to the host computer as a USB drive. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [beagleboard] Debian 8.1 / kernel 4.1.x test releases are unstable

2015-07-12 Thread Graham Haddock
I will try it by reloading a totally untouched bone-debian-8.1-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2015-07-05-4gb.img, and report back. No cape, trusted Rev.C hardware and power supply. All communications via Ethernet. By my saying that 3.14 is rock solid, this includes up to

Re: [beagleboard] Debian 8.1 / kernel 4.1.x test releases are unstable

2015-07-12 Thread 'dl4mea' via BeagleBoard
If I look on one - but not the target worst case Beaglebone, I see only one package matching Robert's suggestion apt-cache search linux-image | grep ti | grep 4.1 linux-image-4.1.1-ti-r2 - Linux kernel, version 4.1.1-ti-r2 However, if I want to apt-get update on the two current worst case

Re: [beagleboard] SD Card via USB

2015-07-12 Thread Jim Lill
I am booting from the onboard flash... Currently the drive shows as mounted on /media/volume_name when I say in via Ethernet Thanks for your help -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [beagleboard] Debian 8.1 / kernel 4.1.x test releases are unstable

2015-07-12 Thread William Hermans
watchdog was the first thing that popped into my mind heh. On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 12, 2015 12:20 PM, 'dl4mea' via BeagleBoard beagleboard@googlegroups.com wrote: Instabilities have been found by just flashing elinux.org

Re: [beagleboard] SD Card via USB

2015-07-12 Thread Jim Lill
Tried the suggestion below, no working. Perhaps path is /dev/etcetera not mounted drive? On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 12:45:10 PM UTC-4, William Hermans wrote: wow Phil, way to over complicate g_multi heh. nano /etc/modules - add 'g_multi file=/path/to/sdcard' No quotes. The above is

Re: [beagleboard] SD Card via USB

2015-07-12 Thread Philip Polstra
The first time you plug in the thumb drive it should be /dev/sda. If you want the SD card its /dev/mmcXXblk where XX is either 00 or 01 depending on what you booted from. The part of my script that unmounts drives is unneeded for SD cards, but you still need to run modprobe -r g_multi to unload

[beagleboard] BeagleBone black with Arduino Eth. shield UDP issues.

2015-07-12 Thread heizen . sh
I'm having some issues getting my BeagleBoneBlack (BBB) to talk with my Arduino ethernet shield. The BBB is running Java and I'm using standard sockets to write/read a message on the UDP port. The following setups work: Java (BBB) - Packet Sender (on windows PC) : Packets are successfully sent

Re: [beagleboard] BBB Debian and M2Tech Hiface1 ( and Real Time )

2015-07-12 Thread tarakreddypalla
Hi Robert, 1.I am facing similar problems as above .When i type wget http://rcn-ee.net/deb/wheezy-armhf/v3.8.13-bone47/ on my beagle bone black i got following error messages. root@beaglebone:/# wget http://rcn-ee.net/deb/wheezy-armhf/v3.8.13-bone47/ --2014-04-23 20:44:04--