I faced similar problem for the BBB that I bought couple of days back. I was using Windows XP and Windows 7, but could not identify the exact issue. I did reinstalling all the drivers as suggested but did not work.
Finally, I found that under the device manager - Other devices, there was "RNDIS" and "CDC serial". Once I installed RNDIS from microsoft (http://developer.toradex.com/knowledge-base/how-to-install-microsoft-rndis-driver-for-windows-7) along with BONE_DRV.exe (USB driver for windows - step 2. http://beagleboard.org/getting-started) resolved the issue. Thanks for the post. and I hope this additional info might help some more people like me. :) thanks, Chandra On Sunday, 13 July 2014 20:18:57 UTC+5:30, ITFK wrote: > > I had a chance to look at my problem again and I managed to get my BBB > connected properly. After the reinstall I went through the normal 3-4 > sessions of Windows updates and restarts to install them. Then I updates my > motherboard BIOS and installed all of the applicable drivers from the > Gigabyte website. Two of the things I did were to install the latest > Realtek Ethernet driver for my motherboard and run the Intel INF update > utility. I still think my old Windows 7 install was probably causing me > problems due to how old it was and all of the devices I had installed > during that time, however, I also should have installed all of the > appropriate drivers from the Gigabyte website before posting that my > problem wasn't solved. > > At this point I see all three devices listed in the device manager (Gadget > Serial under Ports, BEAGLEBONE under Portable Devices, and Linux USB > Ethernet/RNDIS Gadget under Network Adapters) and they are listed as > working properly. Hopefully if anyone else has a similar issue they'll be > able to get something useful out of this thread. Unfortunately, I don't > know exactly which step solved my issues but updating BIOS and drivers > seems like a good first step. > > > On Saturday, 12 July 2014 09:58:14 UTC-4, ITFK wrote: >> >> OK so I just performed a clean install of Windows 7 and I am still unable >> to connect to the default web server via USB. The drivers were reinstalled >> but the Linux USB Ethernet/RNDIS Gadget still says the device cannot start. >> Does anyone have any suggestions given that this doesn't appear to be a >> broken OS anymore? >> >> On Thursday, 10 July 2014 22:31:17 UTC-4, William Hermans wrote: >>> >>> heh, I just have two laptops that I use lately. One is the general >>> purpose do everything system. Mostly, it just runs VLC to play movies, and >>> then virtualbox where I have an x86 Debian install support "system" for the >>> BBB. I tried dual booting, but for the purpose above . . . it was not >>> working out for me. Mostly because I did not want to install X on my >>> support system. >>> >>> My other system is fairly minimal. No JRE, or java apps period, no >>> Flash, etc Pretty much just firefox, sublime text 2 for editing code, >>> puTTY, x-chat, winrar. >>> >>> The Debian virtual machine does all the cross compiling, and hosts the >>> BBB's rootfs ( NFS root ), while also acting as a Samba server so I can >>> access files on the BBB or support system via mapped network drive from My >>> "dev machine". It's a fairly complex setup, but I'm pretty happy with it. >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 6:39 PM, ITFK <tyle...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks for the reply William. I was hopeful that maybe I was doing >>>> something dumb or perhaps just missing something that someone here would >>>> be >>>> able to easily pickup on and point out to me. I've already started >>>> downloading installers for the software I use frequently in order to have >>>> a (hopefully) quick and easy reinstall this weekend. I intend to image my >>>> OS drive after the reinstall to make things easier the next time this >>>> occurs. I do have a separate drive (not just partitions) for my OS and >>>> most >>>> frequently used programs so I shouldn't lose any important data. If I >>>> could >>>> convince my fiancee that I need a 5th computer I'd love to have a >>>> dedicated >>>> machine for development, but until then I suppose I'll have to live with >>>> my >>>> general purpose desktop machine. I do have a bad tendency to download new >>>> software just to play around with it though. Maybe I'll try to be a little >>>> more selective about what I install next time around :) >>>> >>>> On Thursday, 10 July 2014 20:11:09 UTC-4, William Hermans wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Unfortunately, I do not know anyone who could possibly troubleshoot >>>>> this problem without being at the keyboard. Your install is old, and is >>>>> probably broken in one way or another. >>>>> >>>>> I have personally experienced similar issues with the same version of >>>>> Windows, and my own recourse is just to reinstall. One thing you can do >>>>> to >>>>> help facilitate this is to keep the OS separate from your data ( e.g. two >>>>> partitions, 1 for OS, one for data ). It wont keep the OS from eventually >>>>> loosing its mind, but it should keep your data safe, and make it very >>>>> simple to reinstall. >>>>> >>>>> Also, for the drivers, I have no idea who actually wrote them but they >>>>> seem to be a bit inexperienced with windows drivers. As there should be >>>>> an >>>>> option to remove existing old drivers. The problem here is when you >>>>> update >>>>> your BBB sometimes Windows views the hardware differently, and has no >>>>> idea >>>>> how to interact with it. So, you're required to reinstall the drivers, >>>>> while previous versions stay installed. Confusing Windows even more >>>>> eventually until it just starts to silently fail. >>>>> >>>>> The last time I personally reinstalled was fairly recently. Just >>>>> before I did however, I booted into safe mode, and did some >>>>> investigation. >>>>> Between the two BBB's we have several MSP430 launchpad's and perhaps an >>>>> old >>>>> M3 stellaris dev board. I had 10 + old drivers still installed but not >>>>> being used. >>>>> >>>>> Further advice would be to limit what you install on your development >>>>> workstations. The standard K.I.S.S methodology. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 4:41 PM, ITFK <tyle...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> If anyone can provide any insight here I'd definitely appreciate it! >>>>>> I'm strongly considering just reformatting my PC but would prefer to >>>>>> avoid >>>>>> that solution for the time being if possible. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Monday, 7 July 2014 21:09:33 UTC-4, ITFK wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I purchased a Beaglebone Black (rev. A6) at the end of last year and >>>>>>> was highly unsuccessful in getting the board up and running on my >>>>>>> desktop >>>>>>> PC. Unfortunately, due to work and grad. school commitments I haven't >>>>>>> made >>>>>>> time to pursue this board any further until now. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Now onto the actual problem... I am unable to connect to the default >>>>>>> web server over the USB connection on my desktop PC. Up until recently >>>>>>> I >>>>>>> was able to get the BBB mounted to my PC, however, after some tweaking >>>>>>> last >>>>>>> night I am now unable to do that either. I only tried very briefly to >>>>>>> connect via the RJ45 connector on the board and was unsuccessful in >>>>>>> that as >>>>>>> well. I will say that I am able to connect to the BBB over USB on my >>>>>>> laptop >>>>>>> very quickly and easily so I really don't expect this to be a hardware >>>>>>> issue. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> My desktop PC is a Windows 7 64-bit machine that hasn't seen a fresh >>>>>>> install in probably 2-3 years. In that time I've run a couple of >>>>>>> different >>>>>>> development boards (Arduino and a couple of simple PIC setups) plus a >>>>>>> ton >>>>>>> of other random peripherals. I also currently connect to the internet >>>>>>> through a VPN and installed a TAP driver to do so. I have a VM setup >>>>>>> through VirtualBox which has an entry in the network adapters section >>>>>>> of >>>>>>> the device manager labeled "VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter". I >>>>>>> guess >>>>>>> the takeaway here is that I've been using this install for a few years >>>>>>> now >>>>>>> and have install all kinds of different device drivers for various >>>>>>> peripherals that may be conflicting with my BBB. My laptop on the other >>>>>>> hand is a new (<1 year old) Dell which is also running Windows 7 64-bit >>>>>>> but >>>>>>> has had far less connected to it. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> As of early last night I was able to connect the BBB via USB to my >>>>>>> desktop PC and see the BBB mounted to my PC. There were entries in the >>>>>>> device manager for the Beaglebone (under Portable Devices), the Gadget >>>>>>> Serial (under Ports COM & LPT), and the Linux RNDIS Ethernet gadget >>>>>>> (under >>>>>>> Network Adapters and shows up as Linux USB Ethernet/RNDIS Gadget #2 for >>>>>>> some reason). The RNDIS entry showed device error 10 saying that the >>>>>>> device >>>>>>> was not able to start. I have installed the drivers through the >>>>>>> BONE_D64 >>>>>>> executable as well as by trying to manually update the driver and point >>>>>>> it >>>>>>> to the RNDIS driver located at F:\Drivers\Windows\src\files\RNDIS. >>>>>>> Later last night I tried uninstalling all of the BBB entries I could >>>>>>> find >>>>>>> within the device manager (the three I listed above) and used bcdedit >>>>>>> to >>>>>>> allow the installation of digitally unsigned drivers thinking that >>>>>>> perhaps >>>>>>> Windows was blocking the install somehow. I restarted my PC, installed >>>>>>> the >>>>>>> drivers, re-enabled driver integrity checks with bcdedit and restarted >>>>>>> my >>>>>>> PC once again. This was unsuccessful and I was still unable to get the >>>>>>> Linux USB Ethernet/RNDIS Gadget to start properly. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I also tried uninstalling all of the drivers, restarting, installing >>>>>>> Code Composer Studio 5.5.0, and restarting again in the hopes that the >>>>>>> software would be packaged with a digitally signed set of drivers that >>>>>>> would run properly on my machine. Again, this was met with no success >>>>>>> and I >>>>>>> was still unable to connect to the BBB's internal web server. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Lastly, I tried downloading and flashing the BBB with the latest >>>>>>> Angstrom image to see if maybe there was some weird interaction between >>>>>>> the >>>>>>> particular version of Linux on my BBB and my PC (despite it seeming >>>>>>> unlikely due to the error with the RNDIS gadget). This last step was >>>>>>> again >>>>>>> unsuccessful, but I am still able to connect over USB to the BBB's >>>>>>> webserver on my laptop. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'd really like to solve this issue asap but I am out of ideas. I >>>>>>> will probably be reinstalling Windows in about a month once my new SSD >>>>>>> is >>>>>>> no longer on back order. I am hoping that there is a solution someone >>>>>>> else >>>>>>> knows of that will get me up and running faster than that though. >>>>>>> Working >>>>>>> on my laptop is an option but my desktop has far more RAM which makes >>>>>>> it >>>>>>> much more appealing when I am running a VM to develop code for the BBB. >>>>>>> Hopefully I've provided enough information for someone to give me an >>>>>>> idea >>>>>>> of what else I could try. 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