Hi,
I have the BBB with the factory installed Linux:
Angstrom v2012.12 - Kernel \r
Linux 3.8.6 armv7l
On my WindowsXP machine I can run PuTTY terminal and connect with the BBB through the USB port at the IP address 192.168.7.2 with no problem.
I can also run PuTTY through the IP address assigned to the BBB by the LAN router with no problem. I can also ping the BBB address from my WinXP.
However, the application I want to run requires the following system software:
Debian GNU/Linux 7 \n \l
Linux 3.8.13xenomai-bone23 armv7l
I loaded that software on to an SDHC card. It boots up and runs fine except I can no longer use a PuTTY terminal through the USB port. Also when I try to ping the 192.168.7.2 address from my XP, I no longer get any response.
I can still get response with PuTTY by running through the LAN IP address before. I can run Xming on the WinXP and run my applications just fine through the LAN. This works with no problem, but I would like to be able to run “headless” through the USB port (not the LAN). This will allow me to run both the XP and the Linux on the same machine (WinXP station) with only the USB connection.
If I do an ifconfig, I get the following information regarding the USB port:
usb0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0e:39:c8:21:b0:b1
inet addr:192.168.7.2 Bcast:192.168.7.3 Mask:255.255.255.252
inet6 addr: fe80::c39:c8ff:fe21:b0b1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:76 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:14045 (13.7 KiB) TX bytes:598 (598.0 B)
It would appear as the the port and IP address are there (on the BBB side). I seems as though they are no being made accessible.
When the Debian BBB boots up, it will appear on my WinXP machine as a drive (E: on my machine, and my WinXP can access the files there, so the USB connection is still good). But if I double click on the “BeagleBone Getting Started” label on WinXP “My Computer” page it tries to load from the E: drive which gets translated to trying to load from 192.168.7.2 again, and this fails.
So I know the WinXP side is good. I know the BBB and USB port electronics are all good. It seems that the Debian is not loading some driver (or something) that is required to make the 192.168.7.2 port visible through the USB port, even though it exists in ifconf.
Can anyone tell me what I need to load/run/install/etc. on the Debian to get it to allow access through the USB port like the Angstom did.
Thanks,
Jeff