**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Wed Mar 26 02:59:59 2014 Mar 26 03:09:36 Hey guys, I'm having an issue where conecting my beagleboard via usb to my mac isnt recognized. I've reflashed the internal SD and it still not working. any thoughts? Mar 26 03:27:51 testing Mar 26 06:06:38 hello guys - got a quick question - would really appreciate it if anyone can provide an answer to this. Googling won't help. Mar 26 06:06:56 is BB BLACK Chinese brand of Beaglebone Black? Mar 26 06:07:21 maybe, i saw one knock off posted in here. Mar 26 06:07:21 link? Mar 26 06:15:33 probably safer to just stick to the retailers listed on the site Mar 26 07:16:38 well thank you anyway. good day/night to y'all Mar 26 08:55:37 Hello. Somebody know. When can BeagleBone GPS/GPRS Cape buy ? Mar 26 08:57:21 Hello. Somebody know. Where can BeagleBone GPS/GPRS Cape buy ? Mar 26 10:00:31 hi, i want to put angstrom image on my sd card, but mksdcard.sh fail to flash the sd can anyone help plz? Mar 26 10:05:31 ah no one helps? Mar 26 10:07:45 bizz: are you getting an error? Mar 26 10:10:32 bizz: keep the chat in the room please Mar 26 10:10:50 ok let me post full error Mar 26 10:11:50 cannot access /dev/mmcblk0?: No such file or directory Disk /dev/mmcblk0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ... sfdisk: ERROR: sector 0 does not have an msdos signature Mar 26 10:12:05 bizz: pls see the topic. use pastebin Mar 26 10:13:45 bizz: do an lsblk - chances are there is no sd card where the script is looking Mar 26 10:15:46 the result of lsblk shows my sd card as mmcblk0, and two partitions of it. Mar 26 10:16:10 is there a problem? Mar 26 10:17:45 and sth strange: why is the name of sd card mmcblk0 and not sdx? Mar 26 10:26:59 bizz: there super simple instructions for getting Angstrom sorted here http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:Updating_The_Software Mar 26 10:30:03 i know that. but the problem is i use another prebuilt angstrom image for supporting lcd. but i can't flash my sd card Mar 26 10:31:28 btw I have installed ubuntu on my black and I am very happy with it (it boots from the internal mmc and used the sd card as additional storage). so far it has been a great experiance(compared to Angstrom and arch linux and Minix..) Mar 26 10:32:10 no tested with lcd or anything yet. Mar 26 10:34:22 bizz: if its a prebuilt image then the process is the same Mar 26 10:34:30 bizz: permission problem? Mar 26 10:35:56 sth like: cannot access /dev/mmcblk0?: No such file or directory Disk Mar 26 10:36:53 and do u know what is the fastetst distribution (i mean boot time) ? Mar 26 10:42:30 bizz: Depends on many different things. Best to choose one that best suits your needs Mar 26 10:43:20 i just need speed and nothing else matters. in this case what u prefer? Mar 26 10:43:44 i mean lesser boot time Mar 26 10:54:19 debian Mar 26 11:19:27 Good day, I have a question concerning the Revisions of the Beaglebone Black: How am I able to see whether "Rev B" is sold (the revision with the new processor)? Is there some kind of serial number? Most websites just write " BB-BBLK-000" Mar 26 13:21:22 Does anyone have some information on the Arduino Tre? The information page on the arduino site seems to indicate it is a beaglebone/arduino hybrid board, but I have been unable to find more, or source code, etc. Mar 26 13:23:13 droidicus: most info hasn't been posted yet Mar 26 13:23:27 droidicus: Tre is basically a combination of a leonardo and beaglebone black Mar 26 13:29:26 l Mar 26 13:29:32 -EWIN Mar 26 14:01:02 did the community decide to focus on debian over angstrom? Mar 26 14:01:19 i noticed the debian image on the website is pretty fresh Mar 26 14:06:51 JFK911: that would be nice Mar 26 14:08:02 Dan2: it would be nice to focus on debian? Mar 26 14:08:11 yup Mar 26 14:09:39 well, it's probably better for a desktop machine Mar 26 14:09:47 Hello all, I am a newbie to beagle bone black. My BBB is not booting. Only the Power led is glowing. No USR led blinking. Tried to reflash the emmc, but no change. Any suggestions?? Mar 26 14:09:51 if that's what you want bbb for then that sounds fantastic Mar 26 14:10:06 i do like the angstrom :) Mar 26 14:10:12 i hate it Mar 26 14:10:18 its like im using a router........ Mar 26 14:10:33 ive never even had my BBB plugged into a monitor Mar 26 14:10:40 let alone a keyboard or mouse Mar 26 14:10:42 :D Mar 26 14:11:21 you can use x11 remotely Mar 26 14:11:36 display gui from beagle on your mac/windows/linux Mar 26 14:11:52 Guest37743: tried just flashing an image to your sd card and making sure that boots? Mar 26 14:12:19 Dan2 yup Mar 26 14:12:27 Dan2: they say you have to hold the button to boot from the sd Mar 26 14:12:32 JFK911: lol that you would put mac first :P Mar 26 14:12:42 did that too Mar 26 14:12:47 but no change Mar 26 14:13:07 moreover, the board is heating up noticeably Mar 26 14:13:22 Dan2: theres a debian flasher image on the website Mar 26 14:13:38 Guest37743: you know theres a "flashing the emmc" version as well as a "run from sd" version of the images? Mar 26 14:14:15 Also the board is not powering up by the usb cable Mar 26 14:14:25 JFK911: indeed there is....... i have debian on both my emmc and currently running it from my sd Mar 26 14:14:47 yeah. I downloaded flash the emmc version Mar 26 14:14:52 Guest37743: usb cable isnt the most reliable Mar 26 14:15:16 yea try using the "run from sd" version Mar 26 14:15:26 and see if you can get it working Mar 26 14:15:28 brb Mar 26 14:16:24 thank you. hope that it helps Mar 26 14:18:51 Guest37743: also, the flashing version takes a long time..... i let mine run for an hour before coming back to it when iflashed mine Mar 26 14:19:18 ok im going to dl the debian sd image just to see if its any good Mar 26 14:20:16 JFK911: i come from using ubuntu on pc and debian on raspberry pi Mar 26 14:20:22 so i was just used to it Mar 26 14:20:36 thats why i prefer angstrom actually Mar 26 14:20:40 i never used debuntoo Mar 26 14:21:02 ive been using winfail for......... decades...... Mar 26 14:21:13 so ubuntu suited me Mar 26 14:21:49 hi! Mar 26 14:21:54 only been using linux for a short time... so i like things that seem natural Mar 26 14:22:06 * Dan2 waves to Rotti Mar 26 14:24:12 windows works good Mar 26 14:24:24 mac works good too Mar 26 14:24:52 there are some things that seem silly about either Mar 26 14:25:14 but say if you fly to china and expect things to work as they do in the west Mar 26 14:25:21 you might think that china is fail Mar 26 14:25:45 windows used to be the ultimate home software Mar 26 14:26:01 i think they actually released a windows called that Mar 26 14:26:02 specially back in the days of win95/win98 Mar 26 14:26:12 really? those were terrible Mar 26 14:26:19 but its lost it Mar 26 14:26:23 no Mar 26 14:26:33 those were epic back in teh day Mar 26 14:26:36 lol Mar 26 14:26:46 by far the best OS available at the time Mar 26 14:27:17 i disagree, because i was using "primitive NT" then Mar 26 14:27:19 but anyway Mar 26 14:27:33 i was working in retail IT back then Mar 26 14:27:51 hence saying the best HOME os Mar 26 14:28:07 if you are running ubuntu on your workstation you should have no problem getting gui stuff from your beagle to show up on it over the network Mar 26 14:28:33 yer im trying to only use cli Mar 26 14:29:14 actually... this desktop im using now is win7 Mar 26 14:29:32 oh you have to install xming or cygwin on windows Mar 26 14:29:32 my htpc and laptop are ubuntu tho Mar 26 14:30:06 unfortunately i also game..... and winfail is still king for gaming Mar 26 14:30:47 nt's pretty good still, but win7 moved a bunch of interface stuff around so its like flying to china Mar 26 15:36:19 Hi Mar 26 15:36:56 Anybody uses wifi dongle from logicsupply.com ? Mar 26 15:37:09 I'm doing lsusb , and not display Mar 26 15:38:14 http://pastebin.com/XC6ZjhH7 Mar 26 15:46:39 Have you checked dmesg to see what the system is doing with it when you plug it in? Mar 26 15:48:05 N3wbs: Thanks for your reply , now I'm doing Mar 26 15:49:36 salaet: may depend on what distro you are using but you should see something in a system log of some nature, if it is indeed doing anything Mar 26 15:52:21 I'm using lastimage of debian Mar 26 15:52:48 salaet: dmesg should be good to go in that case Mar 26 15:54:09 http://pastebin.com/47d2fJnd Mar 26 15:54:31 I can't see nothings wrong , but my dongle in PC is running ok with lsusb Mar 26 15:57:00 unplug it, plug it back in and see what the last few lines of dmesg say - then you know what effect its having Mar 26 16:43:00 OK! Mar 26 16:57:11 N3wbs: and All, Trick if ever you change usb wifi dongle in new version of debian firts disable old wifi dongle with connman or similar. reboot and enable again. Mar 26 17:45:48 http://pastebin.com/jEKnsnEh O_O Mar 26 17:58:05 salaet: ouch. happens when plugging? Mar 26 17:59:58 <_av500_> hmm, bacon: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/t-bone-cape Mar 26 18:00:07 <_av500_> er, t-bone Mar 26 18:09:56 mazzoo: BBB Was very unstable Mar 26 18:10:23 mazzoo : I found the solution here Mar 26 18:10:24 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/beagleboard/VRqGZbXBK1Q/M09l6jdXLYMJ Mar 26 18:11:25 I have BBB with debian last image Mar 26 18:12:06 here is the script that solves the problem with wifi dongle Mar 26 18:12:08 https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Frcn-ee%2Ffarm%2Fblob%2Fmaster%2Fthirdparty%2FMT7601.sh&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNG1cgK6OXNrorKARjUY7N0Ntn2Gsw Mar 26 18:14:28 salaet: are you using the debian image from that post or a more recent one? Mar 26 18:15:46 I noticed that I had to have USB devices plugged into the BBB before powering it on, maybe try that if you're not already doing that Mar 26 18:16:00 oh nevermind, I guess that's still the latest one Mar 26 18:17:05 speaking of wifi dongles, anyone tried using the edimax one? I notice that mine seems to stop working after being plugged in for some time, and I need to unplug it and plug it back in for it to work again Mar 26 18:19:42 PurpleDog: i never got that one running (the small one)... iirc, the bone (white) crashed after loading the driver... but it was an old kernel (3.8.5) Mar 26 18:20:11 that's odd Rotti, I thought it was supported as of kernel 3.0 but I could be remembering wrong Mar 26 18:20:35 PurpleDog: the driver has been loaded.... i think i remember some kernel panic or similar Mar 26 18:20:45 on the pi, they work fine Mar 26 18:21:16 the reviews I read regarding BBB compatibility were pretty mixed, some said it works perfectly, others said it was awful Mar 26 18:21:18 but it's quite a while since i was trying to use them... i grabbed just some others Mar 26 18:22:51 alexanderhiam:I'm using from http://beagleboard.org/latest-images I doesnt know if the last Mar 26 18:22:55 Looking for advice about blinking power LED on BBB, please. Mar 26 18:23:00 a friend of mine had a wifi stick that would stop working after a few minutes of inactivity because it entered some kind of low-power mode … not sure it that was the edimax one, though Mar 26 18:23:44 I had that problem Lildebbiedragon, turned out my eMMC somehow got corrupted but I reflashed a few times and it seemed to fix it Mar 26 18:29:19 Looking for help with blinking power LED on BBB, please. Mar 26 18:32:25 Lildebbiedragon: do sth about your power supply Mar 26 19:00:58 I have a problem with the BeagleBone Black - I can open up the Cloud9 IDE, but it doesn't work - I can make files and save them, but not open or run them. Is this how the IDE is supposed to be? Mar 26 19:05:33 let me rephrase that - I've updated the BeagleBone Blace firmware and opened up the Cloud9 IDE and It doesn't want to run programs, can I please get some help as to how to fix this? I've looked everywhere, but this problem doesn't seem to have been encountered before. Mar 26 19:40:58 hi TheCubeMaster019... Mar 26 19:41:28 can you give some more details, perhaps a screen capture on https://imgur.com/ Mar 26 19:41:29 ? Mar 26 19:41:40 sure Mar 26 19:48:22 hi Mar 26 19:48:57 please can anyone help with how to get sensorcape ? Mar 26 19:49:36 Luki_: have you tried contacting whomever designed it? Mar 26 19:50:01 yes but awaiting response Mar 26 19:50:40 i am here to know if there is another means Mar 26 19:51:11 the site doesnt say anything specifically Mar 26 19:52:18 http://imgur.com/a/M91ei okay, the sreenshots are up. Mar 26 19:54:23 to be honest it doesn't look like the sensor board was ever widely produced, but I might be mistaken Mar 26 19:55:42 ok Mar 26 19:56:13 but as the design files seem to be public you could always just roll your own Mar 26 19:56:44 do you know of any sensor that can be used in place of sensorcape Mar 26 19:57:21 my electronic skills are very rusty i just need an off the shelf stuff :) Mar 26 20:02:05 I did notice that when I updated the BBB using the eMMC flasher, all of the files on the FAT partition were wiped (except for the u-boot.img and MLO), but the board still worked fine Mar 26 20:05:18 has anybody successfully gotten the AM335X_StarterWare to run on the BeagleBone Black (BBB)? Mar 26 20:16:07 TheCubeMaster019: looking now Mar 26 20:17:28 TheCubeMaster019: I can't see the address bar. are you browsing http://192.168.7.2:3000 ? Mar 26 20:17:33 yes Mar 26 20:18:15 when clicking "Run", absolutely *nothing* happens? Mar 26 20:18:22 no console view or anything? Mar 26 20:19:53 nope, when i click play, the icon does turn white, but when i release it just turns back to the green arrow Mar 26 20:21:00 TheCubeMaster019: I just did this on the latest Angstrom image: http://imgur.com/0I5xBsq Mar 26 20:21:16 you might have a better experience with the Debian image, which has a newer Cloud9 IDE. Mar 26 20:21:22 http://beagleboard.org/latest-images Mar 26 20:21:35 I'm wondering what you did to hide the console. Mar 26 20:22:08 do you see how I have a command bar at the bottom of mine? Mar 26 20:23:30 yeah, the console never showed up for me, even on the first time running. Mar 26 20:23:58 What do you see when you click the Run on the left-hand pane? Mar 26 20:25:17 nothing happens - it just stays looking at "Project Files" Mar 26 20:26:42 no files listed? Mar 26 20:27:30 what do you mean? it just stays looking at the cloud9 folder with all the files in it. Mar 26 20:27:51 TheCubeMaster019: it shouldn't Mar 26 20:28:03 what happens if you click the little down-arrow next to "Run"? Mar 26 20:29:39 I see a pop-up menu saying "myBlink.js (active file)", "Configure...", "Run in debug mode", and "Auto show/hide debug tools" Mar 26 20:33:17 k. Mar 26 20:33:23 What happens when you go to Configure... Mar 26 20:33:57 it changes the side to the "Run" tab Mar 26 20:34:23 k... and double-clicking on myBlink.js? Mar 26 20:34:38 nothing. Mar 26 20:46:22 something must have screwed up your Cloud9 IDE environment. There are ways to reset it, but v3 is so much better. I recommend updating to the Debian image. Mar 26 20:47:39 are there any major differences on a coding aspect between angstrom and debian? Mar 26 20:47:58 ie the virtual filesystem used for exporting pins Mar 26 20:54:04 <_av500_> same Mar 26 20:54:11 <_av500_> that mostly depends on the kernel Mar 26 20:54:50 okay, thanks! I'll download the debian flasher then. Mar 26 21:55:51 cute BBB hack Mar 26 21:55:55 debian finished installing; liioks like it works! :D Mar 26 21:55:56 http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/03/meet-snoopy-the-diy-drone-that-tracks-your-devices-just-about-anywhere/ Mar 26 21:57:37 thanks very much, jkridner Mar 26 23:34:10 Is there a mirror site for the windows drivers? I just received my BBB and I'm trying to get it set up but it seems like the link isn't working for me Mar 26 23:36:56 Also the start.htm doesn't load anything Mar 26 23:46:41 so 720p is the max resolution out of the hdmi thing? Mar 26 23:47:39 JFK911: 720p is the max recommended resolution with audio for video decoding Mar 26 23:47:56 JFK911: you can drive up to 1080p with a low refresh rate Mar 26 23:49:41 oh ok! Mar 26 23:49:51 is there a userland tool or special file i can write to to experiment? Mar 27 00:46:12 @!#$!@#@!$#@!#!@%$#@$#$@$@ iio **** ENDING LOGGING AT Thu Mar 27 02:59:58 2014