No problem, glad it worked. -Wil On Nov 1, 2013 8:26 PM, <vincent.cource...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, November 1, 2013 5:13:02 PM UTC-7, Wilfredo Nieves wrote: >> >> From your screen shot it looks like you are running Win8. Have you >> disabled driver signature verification to see if the drivers will install? >> > > Hi Wil, > This worked! Thanks you very much for pointing this out! This is something > that should be in the getting started... > Is there any particular reason why the driver is not signed? > The getting started guide is very detailed and very well done, giving lot > of useful information, but don't even address a major issue that affects a > growing number of users (Windows 7 and Vista don't have this issue?). > > In my opinion, the BBB is an incredible piece of hardware, way superior to > the RPi. But it's WAY (and I mean WAY WAY WAY) less user friendly than the > RPi: no guide is up to date, nothing is working like described in the > guides, Angstrom is a confidential distrib (why choosing this by default? > power users can install Angstrom by their own! People wants Ubuntu/Debian! > (I personally prefer Debian when no GUI because Ubuntu's do-release-upgrade > always breaks everything)), and this is very unfortunate. > This gives a poor first user experience, limiting the growth of the > community. It looks like the product is made for and by hyper specialized > nerds. > As I understand, the beagleboard.org projects are community driven, so > making the product accessible only to a very small part of the population > is definitively not a good thing. > > > NB: I tried to edit the getting started guide to add the driver related > issue in the troubleshooting section, but I guess it's not a wiki -- no > edit link once logged in. > > -- > 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 group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- 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 group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
