Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBone Black WiFi Configuration tutorial?

2014-01-15 Thread Sukesh
Thanks for your post. I tried setting up WiFi a while back but faced the same problem...connection lost after few seconds. After turning off power-save, it works fine now. On Friday, June 28, 2013 10:19:58 AM UTC-7, William C Bonner wrote: It turns out that I didn't have things working

[beagleboard] Re: Build a QT/11 application for beagleboard black by cross compiling from ubuntu

2014-01-15 Thread dlewin555
I missed this answer, sry ; yes : this happend after built Qt app on host and tried to run it on BBB. Le lundi 13 janvier 2014 14:18:10 UTC+1, Mirko Fucci a écrit : i've neved had this kind of problem, just to clarify when do you get this ? after you've copied executable on the BBB? or when

[beagleboard] Re: BBB: after powerfailure BBB is no longer booting from eMMC

2014-01-15 Thread Martin Sperl
Nothing - everything is fine! Actually (as posted) the partitions have the SAME checksum (the one of the SD that boots, and the one on the eMMC which does not) - that said: being a dd copy they should be identical... So it seems to me as if there is an issue with some sort of pre-boot loader

[beagleboard] Re: Beaglebone Black won't power on, did I do something wrong? :(

2014-01-15 Thread nitesh singh
Thanks a lot guys , I just discovered one of my supposedly fried Beaglebone Black works after pressing power button and reset button in cycles for few minutes after reading this post. Although it had stopped while i was doing something on it and never booted up after. Now going to try the same

[beagleboard] Error while trying to enter sleep mode

2014-01-15 Thread ganesh h
Hi, While trying to enter sleep mode on beaglebone black am getting an error When i issue the command echo -n mem /sys/power/state am getting -sh: echo: write error: No such device The kernel version and os version is as below root@beaglebone:~# uname -a Linux beaglebone 3.8.13 #1 SMP Wed

[beagleboard] Re: Boot log of failed attempt to flash Android.

2014-01-15 Thread Malcolm Groves
It did? Hmmm, good news I guess, but any ideas why I'm not seeing anything on the display? Cheers Malcolm -- 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

[beagleboard] Re: SPI - SD card

2014-01-15 Thread Alberto Potenza
Dear all, I found an answer by myself: there are still enough mmc2 lines to connect a second SD card and talk with it by SD-card 4 bit protocol, so there is no reason to use the SPI bus to connect a second SD card. In principle, the mmc2 should work as the mmc0: it should recognize

Re: [beagleboard] Forbidden pins on P8 and P9

2014-01-15 Thread Gerald Coley
The tell the internal boot ROM where to find the code to load. It is described in the System Reference Manual for the board. Being set wrong due to interference with the boot pins, the board will never run. Gerald On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:33 AM, Satz Klauer satzkla...@googlemail.comwrote:

[beagleboard] netinstall or image-builder?

2014-01-15 Thread David Lambert
First of all I would like to thank Robert for all his good work on moving the Debian system forward on the BBB. I am a little confused, however regarding building a minimal system. What is the relationship between netinstall and image-builder? I am looking to build a minimal system where I can

Re: [beagleboard] Forbidden pins on P8 and P9

2014-01-15 Thread Satz Klauer
OK, just to verify that: when I use these pins for something different and set an input signal to them only when SYS_RESETn is HIGH, everything is fine and the board will boot!? On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.org wrote: The tell the internal boot ROM where to

Re: [beagleboard] Forbidden pins on P8 and P9

2014-01-15 Thread Dennis McLeod
In my experimentations, you can use the SYSBOOT muxed pins without problem as long as you just let them float during powerup On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 9:39:30 AM UTC-5, Satz Klauer wrote: OK, just to verify that: when I use these pins for something different and set an input signal

Re: [beagleboard] netinstall or image-builder?

2014-01-15 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:29 AM, David Lambert d...@lambsys.com wrote: First of all I would like to thank Robert for all his good work on moving the Debian system forward on the BBB. I am a little confused, however regarding building a minimal system. What is the relationship between

[beagleboard] Re: When GPIO overlay is necessary ?

2014-01-15 Thread Mirko Fucci
Yes sure, look at derek tutorial and download his sources: http://derekmolloy.ie/gpios-on-the-beaglebone-black-using-device-tree-overlays/ Il giorno mercoledì 15 gennaio 2014 10:37:18 UTC+1, arunbarn...@gmail.com ha scritto: An interesting idea indeed, I will give it a try. The pins can

Re: [beagleboard] Forbidden pins on P8 and P9

2014-01-15 Thread Gerald Coley
The SYSBOOT pins are sampled on the rising edge of the POR signal. Your SW after the fact has no affect. Your HW before the fact, does. Gerald On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Dennis McLeod umo...@gmail.com wrote: In my experimentations, you can use the SYSBOOT muxed pins without problem as

[beagleboard] Ubuntu Distribution ssh nameserver

2014-01-15 Thread Micka
Hi, I'm curious to know why it takes 10 second to login with ssh when /etc/resolv.conf is empty . And when there is something, it takes less than 1 second to login ! Micka, -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: [beagleboard] Re: debian: test images (2014-01-10)

2014-01-15 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Louis McCarthy compeo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for all of your hard work Robert! Not sure if this is really a bug or more of a optimization. I downloaded and installed (via Win32 Disk Imager) the eMMC Flasher to a 4 Gb Kingston card. When I booted the new

Re: [beagleboard] new beaglebone image-builder script fails when downloading Cloud9

2014-01-15 Thread Dennis Cote
On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 3:14:29 PM UTC-7, RobertCNelson wrote: I think this was the real issue.. https://github.com/beagleboard/image-builder/commit/95f61a4c3c050492c252152f7fff1379c4aa50b4 Running a full rerun right now and so far it looks good.. Hi Robert, I haven't had

Re: [beagleboard] Ubuntu Distribution ssh nameserver

2014-01-15 Thread Jay Nugent
Greetings, On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, Micka wrote: Hi, I'm curious to know why it takes 10 second to login with ssh when /etc/resolv.conf is empty . And when there is something, it takes less than 1 second to login ! It is due to DNS lookups and Logging. When you log in, a record of your

Re: [beagleboard] Ubuntu Distribution ssh nameserver

2014-01-15 Thread Micka
Yes, that was perfect, thx you ! On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Jay Nugent j...@nuge.com wrote: Greetings, On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, Micka wrote: Hi, I'm curious to know why it takes 10 second to login with ssh when /etc/resolv.conf is empty . And when there is something, it takes less

Re: [beagleboard] Re: debian: test images (2014-01-10)

2014-01-15 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Louis McCarthy compeo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm all for simple. I wan't going to mention the screen saver, but now that you did, I think that is a good call. The other option would be to extend the delay to 15 minutes, instead of disabling it entirely, but I

[beagleboard] Re: node.js SerialPort Erro

2014-01-15 Thread rob . lemon
I am having issues with installing node-serialport because of its 0.10+ dependency. I have attempted to compile node.js latest to the board but that is a very slow and painful process (first attempt ran for ~4 hours then power cut... I was not impressed) Anyone have this package successfully

Re: [beagleboard] Re: debian: test images (2014-01-10)

2014-01-15 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Louis McCarthy compeo...@gmail.com wrote: I am awaiting approval in the bug tracker, but I saw your comment related to Wicd/Connman. If I remember correctly, there were issues with multiple connections (wired and wireless) and DHCP (only assigned an IP to the

Re: [beagleboard] new beaglebone image-builder script fails when downloading Cloud9

2014-01-15 Thread Dennis Cote
On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 9:27:05 AM UTC-7, RobertCNelson wrote: Humm, i thought we fixed that.. what kernel version on your BBB? ubuntu@ubuntu-armhf:~$ uname -a Linux ubuntu-armhf 3.8.13-bone30 #1 SMP Thu Nov 14 06:23:24 UTC 2013 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux ubuntu@ubuntu-armhf:~$

[beagleboard] Using the BeagleBoard Black instead of our outdated Data Hopper and Rabbit board for central control

2014-01-15 Thread Troy
Hello All, I am seeking help for a project that I have spent 6 years and nearly a million dollars on. We hired an engineer to develop an all new central control irrigation system, This system that was developed was done by a person that was a communication engineer. His background mainly

Re: [beagleboard] Re: debian: test images (2014-01-10)

2014-01-15 Thread Louis McCarthy
I have wicd showing wireless networks now You need to go to the Preferences and enter wlan0 into the Wireless interface section of the General Settings tab. I'm still testing, but it appears to connect to the internet. On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 10:32:42 AM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote:

Re: [beagleboard] Re: debian: test images (2014-01-10)

2014-01-15 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Louis McCarthy compeo...@gmail.com wrote: I have wicd showing wireless networks now You need to go to the Preferences and enter wlan0 into the Wireless interface section of the General Settings tab. Yeah, i had tried that too today.. For some reason my

[beagleboard] Re: Beaglebone Balck Avalibility and 4 inch LCD display Compatibility

2014-01-15 Thread Mahendra Gunawardena
Thanks On Sunday, January 12, 2014 8:28:20 AM UTC-5, Mahendra Gunawardena wrote: Reading through the posts I noticed that there is a Beaglebone Black shortage. My first questions is there a new rev on the works, or is A6A the current production version. Second Question: I am interest

Re: [beagleboard] Re: debian: test images (2014-01-10)

2014-01-15 Thread Bill Traynor
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Louis McCarthy compeo...@gmail.com wrote: I am awaiting approval in the bug tracker, but I saw your comment related to Wicd/Connman. If I remember correctly, there were issues with multiple connections (wired and wireless) and DHCP (only assigned an IP to the

Re: [beagleboard] new beaglebone image-builder script fails when downloading Cloud9

2014-01-15 Thread Robert Nelson
ubuntu@ubuntu-armhf:~$ uname -a Linux ubuntu-armhf 3.8.13-bone30 #1 SMP Thu Nov 14 06:23:24 UTC 2013 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux ubuntu@ubuntu-armhf:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 13.10 Release: 13.10 Codename: saucy Hum,

Re: [beagleboard] Power Requirements for Beaglebone black and LCD Display(4DCAPE-43)

2014-01-15 Thread Gerald Coley
I doubt very much USB can power both. 5V, I would guess around 2A. But the 4D people should say what the current is that they require. Yes the TPS65217C switches between either USB or the 5VDC input. If the 5VDC is there, it gets connected. Gerald On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Mahendra

Re: [beagleboard] Power Requirements for Beaglebone black and LCD Display(4DCAPE-43)

2014-01-15 Thread Philip Polstra
No chance USB will work. Get 2A adapter. On Jan 15, 2014 11:41 AM, Mahendra Gunawardena mahengunaward...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, Does anyone have any idea of power requirements for BBB 4 inch LCD display (4DCAPE-43) combination? Note: I recently purchased a BBB and the display is on

[beagleboard] Re: debian: test images (2014-01-10)

2014-01-15 Thread smith . winston . 101
On Friday, January 10, 2014 5:11:09 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: It's Friday and everyone is probally kicking back and enjoying a cold beverage... Well enough of that crap, time to start actually testing something... ;) Firstly, many thanks for your hard work here! Now that the move

Re: [beagleboard] Re: debian: test images (2014-01-10)

2014-01-15 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:53 AM, smith.winston@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, January 10, 2014 5:11:09 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: It's Friday and everyone is probally kicking back and enjoying a cold beverage... Well enough of that crap, time to start actually testing something... ;)

Re: [beagleboard] Running DC motor using GPIO pins

2014-01-15 Thread Gerald Coley
Output current of a GPIO pin is around 6mA at 3.3V. Gerald On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:56 AM, ankush.wo...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any possible way to run a DC motor of around 15 watts power using a separate power source using python in beaglebone black? any possible solution will be

[beagleboard] Running DC motor using GPIO pins

2014-01-15 Thread ankush . work2
Is there any possible way to run a DC motor of around 15 watts power using a separate power source using python in beaglebone black? any possible solution will be appreciated. I don't want to use any cape for the task. thanks in advance. -- For more options, visit

Re: [beagleboard] Re: node.js SerialPort Erro

2014-01-15 Thread George Lu
Hi Rob, I have serialPort installed and working with both node v0.8 and v0.10 on two BBB. On the first BBB, making v0.8 from source took a bit over half-an-hour, as I recall. Below were my steps: # apt-get install build-essential Fetch and Build node.js root@arm:~# wget

[beagleboard] Cross Compile: Windows to BBB running Debian

2014-01-15 Thread rltenney
I'm used to running an eclipse-based IDE (Codewarrior) to develop code for embedded processors, and I'd like to set up this kind of a system for the BBB. From my reading, it appears that I have to install a toolchain into eclipse, one that supports a windows 7 host and an ARM Cortex A8 v7a

Re: [beagleboard] new beaglebone image-builder script fails when downloading Cloud9

2014-01-15 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Dennis Cote denn...@harding.ca wrote: On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 2:09:03 PM UTC-7, RobertCNelson wrote: When you run ./beagleboard.org_image.sh, your final image base image will be under the deploy directory. You'll also see a ship.sh script, this

Re: [beagleboard] new beaglebone image-builder script fails when downloading Cloud9

2014-01-15 Thread Dennis Cote
On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 11:27:10 AM UTC-7, Dennis Cote wrote: When my PC was done I ran the ship.sh script in the deploy directory. When I look at the files I see the following: dennis@dennis-VirtualBox:~/BBB/image-builder/deploy$ ls -hl total 3.1G -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2G

Re: [beagleboard] Cross Compile: Windows to BBB running Debian

2014-01-15 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:20 PM, rlten...@gmail.com wrote: I'm used to running an eclipse-based IDE (Codewarrior) to develop code for embedded processors, and I'd like to set up this kind of a system for the BBB. From my reading, it appears that I have to install a toolchain into eclipse,

Re: [beagleboard] new beaglebone image-builder script fails when downloading Cloud9

2014-01-15 Thread Dennis Cote
On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 11:38:20 AM UTC-7, RobertCNelson wrote: It looks like xz just died, it should remove BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.3-2014-01-14-2gb.img when done.. That explains what happened to the debian-7.3-lxde-armhf-2014-01-14.tar file that ship.sh is looking for to start

Re: [beagleboard] Running DC motor using GPIO pins

2014-01-15 Thread Tux Leonard
You need a Motor Driver like this one https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9457 to do so. If you are able to generate a PWM signal with Python it should be no problem. 2014/1/15 Gerald Coley ger...@beagleboard.org Output current of a GPIO pin is around 6mA at 3.3V. Gerald On Wed, Jan 15,

Re: [beagleboard] new beaglebone image-builder script fails when downloading Cloud9

2014-01-15 Thread Robert Nelson
Yes, I understand what armhf means (after I looked it up a few days ago), but I was asking where does the file armhf-rootfs-debian-wheezy-2014-01-14-src.tar come from? I couldn't see where it was created in the scripts. Oh that, it gets dumped out here:

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Build a QT/11 application for beagleboard black by cross compiling from ubuntu

2014-01-15 Thread Louis McCarthy
I guess I wasn't clear, you need to type 'arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-g++ --version'. Just typing g++ will use your regular host compiler (not toolchain cross compiler) If that gives a valid response, you then need to modify your qmake.conf files or configure command line options (depending on

[beagleboard] USB Ethernet dongle not working dm9601

2014-01-15 Thread Bradley Matusiak
i have a USB Ethernet dongle 'dm9601' (cheep china usb network adapter) it loads via kernel.log and lsmod,,BUT i get no eth1 , as it says it registered BBB(A5C) 3.8.13-bone33 ubuntu12.04 ``` Jan 15 19:38:23 ubuntu-armhf kernel: [75125.203847] usb usb1: usb wakeup-resume Jan 15 19:38:23

Re: [beagleboard] Availability - how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell?

2014-01-15 Thread sunvale
Thanks for the info. Just placed an order through microcenter.com I placed a backorder on 1/6 from digikey but no shipping info available yet. On Wednesday, January 8, 2014 11:40:49 AM UTC-8, Drew Fustini wrote: for those looking for small qty, microcenter has worked well for me - got to

Re: [beagleboard] new beaglebone image-builder script fails when downloading Cloud9

2014-01-15 Thread Dennis Cote
On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 11:54:17 AM UTC-7, RobertCNelson wrote: This will work around that.. ;) https://github.com/beagleboard/image-builder/commit/d856d07c209f6af4022c95fd8fecf9d1f86514c6 Thanks, that did it (after a little copying and editing to update my existing ship.sh

Re: [beagleboard] Power Requirements for Beaglebone black and LCD Display(4DCAPE-43)

2014-01-15 Thread Mahendra Gunawardena
Thanks for the feed back On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Philip Polstra ppols...@gmail.com wrote: No chance USB will work. Get 2A adapter. On Jan 15, 2014 11:41 AM, Mahendra Gunawardena mahengunaward...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, Does anyone have any idea of power requirements for

Re: [beagleboard] new beaglebone image-builder script fails when downloading Cloud9

2014-01-15 Thread Dennis Cote
On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 12:15:51 PM UTC-7, RobertCNelson wrote: Oh that, it gets dumped out here: https://github.com/beagleboard/image-builder/blob/master/scripts/chroot.sh#L719 just un-comment the chroot_ENABLE_DEB_SRC=enable line.. Is it used for anything in this build, or

Re: [beagleboard] new beaglebone image-builder script fails when downloading Cloud9

2014-01-15 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Dennis Cote denn...@harding.ca wrote: On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 12:15:51 PM UTC-7, RobertCNelson wrote: Oh that, it gets dumped out here: https://github.com/beagleboard/image-builder/blob/master/scripts/chroot.sh#L719 just un-comment the

Re: [beagleboard] new beaglebone image-builder script fails when downloading Cloud9

2014-01-15 Thread Dennis Cote
On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 1:06:28 PM UTC-7, RobertCNelson wrote: It serves only one purpose. If someone was to ask you. Do you have the source to package xyz which was installed in release_xyz? You'd be able to give it to them.. It's just a tar file with the source package for

RE: [beagleboard] Re: Build a QT/11 application for beagleboard black by cross compiling from ubuntu

2014-01-15 Thread William Pretty Security
Thanks for all the help Louis. I really appreciate it! As you have probably guessed I am new to cross-compiling J http://www.packtpub.com/building-a-home-security-system-with-beaglebone/book From: beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Louis

Re: [beagleboard] Cross Compile: Windows to BBB running Debian

2014-01-15 Thread William Hermans
As Robert says Linaro has Win32 binaries that do work ( I've done this myself back in june ish last year ). the win32 binaries also run just fine on Windows 7 enterprise x64, for what it is worth. The ABI you choose however depends on which Linux distro you're using. Unless things have changed

Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBone Black Availability

2014-01-15 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 12/19/2013 3:29 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I just put in an order with Mouser and let them get back-ordered. I'll manage if they don't show up until January. :) I just got my two boards from Mouser that were scheduled to ship on Jan. 20 (next Monday). So delivery wasn't too bad at

Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBone Black Availability

2014-01-15 Thread Gerald Coley
There were several reasons for what is going on. But, it translates to increased demand that was not anticipated by the distributors or Circuitco. Gerald . On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net wrote: On 12/19/2013 3:29 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:

[beagleboard] Re: Boot log of failed attempt to flash Android.

2014-01-15 Thread Malcolm Groves
From what I can see, it is booting from the sd card, not flashing the board. if I power up without holding down the boot button, I get an error: Failed to mount ext2 filesystem... ** Unrecognized filesystem type ** (See full dump below). If I pop out the sdcard and power up, it still boots

Re: [beagleboard] new beaglebone image-builder script fails when downloading Cloud9

2014-01-15 Thread Dennis Cote
Still no joy. :-( I am getting an error when writing the 4GB image to a 4 GB SD card. root@dennis-VirtualBox:/home/dennis/BBB/image-builder/deploy# xz -cd bone-debian-7.3-2014-01-14-4gb.img.xz /dev/sdd xz: (stdout): Write error: No space left on device I expanded the image to check its size

Re: [beagleboard] new beaglebone image-builder script fails when downloading Cloud9

2014-01-15 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Dennis Cote denn...@harding.ca wrote: Still no joy. :-( I am getting an error when writing the 4GB image to a 4 GB SD card. root@dennis-VirtualBox:/home/dennis/BBB/image-builder/deploy# xz -cd bone-debian-7.3-2014-01-14-4gb.img.xz /dev/sdd xz: (stdout):

[beagleboard] Control voltage of eMMC

2014-01-15 Thread Satz Klauer
Hi, I try to access the eMMC out of an own bare-metal application, unfortunately with no success until now. One of the parameters that has to be set in CPU is the bus-voltage the eMMC has to be accessed with. For external SD-card (MMC0) HS_MMCSD_SUPPORT_VOLT_1P8 and HS_MMCSD_SUPPORT_VOLT_3P0 are

Re: [beagleboard] Control voltage of eMMC

2014-01-15 Thread liyaoshi
This is depend on your eMMC chip ,eMMC spec defines 2 types called either High voltage or Dual Voltage As I understand , on am335x , Just use 3.3v io 2014/1/16 Satz Klauer satzkla...@googlemail.com Hi, I try to access the eMMC out of an own bare-metal application, unfortunately with no