On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 19:21:55 -0700 (PDT), Henry Umiker
<hgumiker@gmail.com> declaimed the following:
I am a newbie with single board computers and Linux. I followed instructions meant to allow a BBB to connect to the internet via the USB RNDIS connection. https://www.digikey.com/en/maker/blogs/cdf66181b3a5436e9ad730e4ed4cf9ee Which appears to be the same as many other instructions on the same topic. My problem is that shortly after setting it up and before I can test it, Windows blue screens and reboots and continues to do so until I either disconnect the board or un-checking internet sharing with it. Any Ideas? I have no problems with the board otherwise. It would be nice to use this to install software packages. I appreciate any help on this.
This would seem to be a Windows problem... My suggestion would be to
check the Windows event logs for something happening immediately prior to a
blue-screen time which may provide information on what Windows module(s)
are failing.
Note: you have not identified the Windows version, processor, memory,
etc. I don't recall ever seeing a blue screen since Win98SE, or at latest,
an early service patch of WinXP.
Granted, I've also never activated Windows "internet sharing"; it is so
much easier to just run a cat-5 cable from my router/switch to the BBB --
so the first question would have to be: do you get blue-screen/reboot using
the USB connection without "internet sharing" (while, say, copying files
via sFTP or running long listings over SSH).