Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-14 Thread Jeff
-0500 > From: char...@steinkuehler.net > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup > > Just to be clear, that image is *NOT* currently supported, I haven't > even booted it on a BeagleBone. I was experimenting and Mark wante

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-14 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
>> ---------------- >> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:42:25 -0500 >> From: char...@steinkuehler.net >> To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup >> >> >> It may also be the boot loader o

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-14 Thread Mark Tucker
e: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:42:25 -0500 > From: char...@steinkuehler.net > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup > > > It may also be the boot loader on a particular version BeagleBone. I > haven't reproduced the problem here, so

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-14 Thread Jeff
recompile something first?     I do not have any capes connected. Thanks, Jeff     Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:42:25 -0500 From: char...@steinkuehler.net To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup It may also

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-14 Thread Ernesto Lo Valvo
> On 3/10/2014 2:41 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: >> On 3/10/2014 1:12 PM, Dave Cole wrote: >>> I still can't see the BBB on the network. >>> >>> On a power up or reset, the 3 lights next to the reset button sequence >>> on one by one and the lights on the RJ45 jack flash briefly. >>> >>> I'm goi

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-13 Thread jeremy youngs
good job jeremy youngs On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Dave Cole wrote: > I got it working. I updated the onboard Angstrom distribution on the > eMMC and it fixed the problem of loading the uSD card with LinuxCNC. > > Windows OS instructions are here - look for "Update board with late

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-13 Thread Dave Cole
I got it working. I updated the onboard Angstrom distribution on the eMMC and it fixed the problem of loading the uSD card with LinuxCNC. Windows OS instructions are here - look for "Update board with latest software" on this page: http://beagleboard.org/Getting+Started Unpacking the image file

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-13 Thread Dave Cole
I found the procedure to update the BBB onboard eeprom. I'll do that and report back. Dave On 3/13/2014 3:35 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: > Am 13.03.2014 um 22:19 schrieb Dave Cole : > >> I have a total of 4 BBB's. All 4 boards respond in the same way to the >> uSD card created with the script.

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-13 Thread Dave Cole
I wrote the 4 GB image of the same date; 12/28/13 to a 8 GB uSD card with DD and I am getting exactly the same error. So both the uSD card created with the script and DD respond in exactly the same way. This looks like this may be isolated to the BBBs that I have? Perhaps I can update the firmw

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-13 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 13.03.2014 um 22:19 schrieb Dave Cole : > I have a total of 4 BBB's. All 4 boards respond in the same way to the > uSD card created with the script. > These boards were purchased as one lot, last year. > > The script is pulling files in off the web, so perhaps some of those > source files h

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-13 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 13.03.2014 um 21:10 schrieb Mark Tucker : > Michael > > Why would we need the developer enviroment on a running > beaglebone/machinekit? good question. I might just have a different perspective on that question because I for me right now it is a development environment, which means lots o

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-13 Thread Dave Cole
I have a total of 4 BBB's. All 4 boards respond in the same way to the uSD card created with the script. These boards were purchased as one lot, last year. The script is pulling files in off the web, so perhaps some of those source files have changed? At the moment I'm writing the 12/28/13 imag

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-13 Thread Mark Tucker
Michael Why would we need the developer enviroment on a running beaglebone/machinekit? Once it is running it can be left alone on the eMMc and boot off a big memory card for development. Or is it a case of when you have compiled linuxcnc,it will not run without the developer enviroment. I thin

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-13 Thread Michael Haberler
Mark, Am 13.03.2014 um 19:30 schrieb Mark Tucker : > This seems like another good reason to get this to fit on the eMMc to > avoid killing the card slot. very good point would you mind looking into the issue - getting rid of all non-essential packages and see if you can get the image below 2G

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-13 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
It may also be the boot loader on a particular version BeagleBone. I haven't reproduced the problem here, so I'm not sure exactly what's going on. On 3/13/2014 1:30 PM, Mark Tucker wrote: > This seems like another good reason to get this to fit on the eMMc to > avoid killing the card slot. > >

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-13 Thread Mark Tucker
This seems like another good reason to get this to fit on the eMMc to avoid killing the card slot. On 13/03/14 18:24, Michael Haberler wrote: > Am 13.03.2014 um 17:33 schrieb Charles Steinkuehler > : > >> Pinging Michael Haberler: >> >> Is this the same issue you were seeing? >> >> It seems lik

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-13 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 13.03.2014 um 17:33 schrieb Charles Steinkuehler : > Pinging Michael Haberler: > > Is this the same issue you were seeing? > > It seems like Michael's issue was with the SD card slot on the BBB, the > same SD card worked on a different board. that is exactly what I saw two days ago - same s

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-13 Thread Dave Cole
I have a few BBB boards here. I tried it on two different boards. Same identical results. The BBB uSD card slot is not very robust. It would not be difficult to damage it. I''ll try a third BBB and see if there is a difference. I've also tried it on two different uSD cards. Dave On 3/13/2014 1

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-13 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
Pinging Michael Haberler: Is this the same issue you were seeing? It seems like Michael's issue was with the SD card slot on the BBB, the same SD card worked on a different board. On 3/13/2014 12:16 PM, Dave Cole wrote: > I tried adding the partition manager and that made no difference. > > I h

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-13 Thread Dave Cole
I tried adding the partition manager and that made no difference. I hooked up a TTL to USB serial adapter cable to the debug port and this is what I saw (see below) If you have any ideas, let me know, everything is setup here and it is easy to alter. Otherwise I'll download a 4 gig image and w

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-12 Thread Dave Cole
On 3/12/2014 2:00 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > On 3/12/2014 2:49 PM, Dave Cole wrote: >> But I did notice when running the script that a few errors pop up saying >> it can't recognize a file type and it can't write to the root directory. >> I have a sudo in the front of the script command line

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-12 Thread Mark Tucker
Dave Have you tried using the 4gb image and just copy it over using DD ?. I had problems with the script installing the wrong kernal. But on saying that the networking worked on both. I just use the 4gb image and then expand the card to 8gb using gparted. On 12/03/14 19:49, Dave Cole wrote: > On

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-12 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 3/12/2014 2:49 PM, Dave Cole wrote: > But I did notice when running the script that a few errors pop up saying > it can't recognize a file type and it can't write to the root directory. > I have a sudo in the front of the script command line. > Although the completed card appears to have a root

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-12 Thread Dave Cole
On 3/10/2014 2:41 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > On 3/10/2014 1:12 PM, Dave Cole wrote: >> I still can't see the BBB on the network. >> >> On a power up or reset, the 3 lights next to the reset button sequence >> on one by one and the lights on the RJ45 jack flash briefly. >> >> I'm going to ref

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-12 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 3/12/2014 11:53 AM, Jon Elson wrote: > So, just loading the latest machinekit will have it running > at full speed? Yes, the latest kernels (-bone39 and later) have the dynamic frequency code compiled in, but the only thing enabled is the "performance" mode. So the processor will always run a

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-12 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/11/2014 10:54 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > CPU frequency scaling was disabled in the kernel > configuration as recommended by the Xenomai folks. The > problem is, that leaves the CPU frequency set by the boot > loader with no way to change it. Different versions of the > boot loader

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 3/11/2014 10:45 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 03/11/2014 07:57 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: >> On 3/11/2014 7:23 PM, Jeff wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>>Got it! Thanks. It is now at 990.68 MIPS with the newer kernel. >>> >>> > So, what is going on with the older machinekit installs? Do > they actu

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-11 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/11/2014 07:57 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > On 3/11/2014 7:23 PM, Jeff wrote: >> Hi, >> >>Got it! Thanks. It is now at 990.68 MIPS with the newer kernel. >> >> So, what is going on with the older machinekit installs? Do they actually not run the CPU at rated speed? I did notice t

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-11 Thread Jeff
ors. Jeff   Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:32:43 -0500 From: char...@steinkuehler.net To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup On 3/11/2014 1:08 PM, Jeff wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a set of instructions on how to upgrade? > >

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 3/11/2014 7:23 PM, Jeff wrote: > Hi, > > Got it! Thanks. It is now at 990.68 MIPS with the newer kernel. > > If anyone else gives this a try, for some reason I had to un tar the dtbs > file with a suffix > > tar -xzvf --no-same-owner > > without the --no-same-owner I was getting 'own

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-11 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 3/11/2014 1:08 PM, Jeff wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a set of instructions on how to upgrade? > > The MachineKit I have does show 363.67 MIPS with a cat /proc/cpuinfo > > I tried the instructions here: > > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?XenomaiKernelPackages > > and got

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-11 Thread Jeff
perly (or something).  I've never upgraded a kernel before so am pretty lost. Thanks, Jeff Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 10:35:42 -0500 From: char...@steinkuehler.net To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup On

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 3/10/2014 1:12 PM, Dave Cole wrote: > I still can't see the BBB on the network. > > On a power up or reset, the 3 lights next to the reset button sequence > on one by one and the lights on the RJ45 jack flash briefly. > > I'm going to reflash the uSD card and try it again. If that doesn't wo

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-10 Thread Dave Cole
On 3/10/2014 10:35 AM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > On 3/10/2014 10:30 AM, Dave Cole wrote: >> I'm trying to start up a BBB with Charles' uSD image. >> >> I don't have a micro HDMI cable yet, but one is on the way. >> >> I believe that DHCP is enabled by default? >> >> If that is the case I should

Re: [Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-10 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
On 3/10/2014 10:30 AM, Dave Cole wrote: > > I'm trying to start up a BBB with Charles' uSD image. > > I don't have a micro HDMI cable yet, but one is on the way. > > I believe that DHCP is enabled by default? > > If that is the case I should be able to SSH to it immediately after it > boots, i

[Emc-users] Beagle Board Black startup

2014-03-10 Thread Dave Cole
I'm trying to start up a BBB with Charles' uSD image. I don't have a micro HDMI cable yet, but one is on the way. I believe that DHCP is enabled by default? If that is the case I should be able to SSH to it immediately after it boots, is that correct? I can't see its address as it logs into m