[beagleboard] my beagle (white) thinks it has a sound card - why?

2014-05-30 Thread Eric Fort
I installed my DVI-D cape on my beaglebone (white) this evening by itself to verify it still functions. I'm happy to say that it does, at least so long as my AudioCape Rev. B1 is *NOT* also in the cape stack. The interesting thing is that when I boot with just the DVI-D cape in the stack the

Re: [beagleboard] Security when connecting autonomous BB to the Internet

2014-05-30 Thread Dieter Wirz
Before you can hardening a Debian server you have to make a normal Debian Server out of it... Login as root in the terminal (e.g. with putty from a win machine): root@arm:~# adduser prz # add a new regular user with password root@arm:~# deluser debian # remove the Testuser root@arm:~# rm -rf

Re: [beagleboard] my beagle (white) thinks it has a sound card - why?

2014-05-30 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com wrote: I installed my DVI-D cape on my beaglebone (white) this evening by itself to verify it still functions. I'm happy to say that it does, at least so long as my AudioCape Rev. B1 is *NOT* also in the cape stack. The

[beagleboard] cape comparability (DVI-D Audio rev. B1)

2014-05-30 Thread Eric Fort
I'm really trying to get the AudioCape rev B1 DVI-D cape to work together at the same time in the same cape stack on a recent 3.8 kernel. Both capes work flawlessly as the only cape in the cape stack. when stacked together I initially get a flash of video showing the console display of the

Re: [beagleboard] my beagle (white) thinks it has a sound card - why?

2014-05-30 Thread Eric Fort
The white has no HDMI to disable. and the cape is a DVI-D cape, not an HDMI cape, thus no audio. Eric On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com wrote: I installed my DVI-D cape on my

[beagleboard] SO_BINDTODEVICE

2014-05-30 Thread A P
Hi, System setup : Beaglebone Black with Debian from SD card, Ethernet and Wifi. Cross compiling on Windows 7 machine. Running program in debug mode via Eclipse (Win7) using gdb as debugger Problem: I am writing an application that requires ethernet and wifi (via usb) on the beaglebone

[beagleboard] Don't do this.... be careful

2014-05-30 Thread Eric Fort
In trying to gently pry apart my cape stack I accidentally got the pencil I was using to gently pry the 2 capes apart mispositioned such that it used my nice new 32GB SD card as a leverage point and broke it off in the SD card slot where now the part that formerly stuck out of the slot is now a

Re: [beagleboard] SO_BINDTODEVICE

2014-05-30 Thread Dieter Wirz
Did you try to run your program as root, with su or sudo? eg: ~ sudo yourprogram or ~ su ~ yourprogram On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:58 AM, A P a.poole...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, System setup : Beaglebone Black with Debian from SD card, Ethernet and Wifi. Cross compiling on Windows 7 machine.

Re: [beagleboard] Beaglebone Black Ethernet Phy Not Detected on Boot.

2014-05-30 Thread pori . dosa
On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 8:52:36 PM UTC+1, RobertCNelson wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:47 PM, bko...@scanimetrics.com javascript: wrote: Does anyone happen to know if the 3.8 kernel compiled as per these instructions here http://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black

Re: [beagleboard] Using Beagle board to get RSSI of a device

2014-05-30 Thread suleman . rai
Hi Richard, Running uname -r reveals that our driver version is 3.13.0-24-generic on my PC and 3.2.16-x11 on our board. Also when we run modinfo ath9k_htc on our PC we get 3.13.0-24-generic in the vermagic and if we run sudo lshw -C network with our wirless adapter connected to the PC we get

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Best way to connect to Arduino via serial?

2014-05-30 Thread myerscountry12
Awesome, thank you :) I'm new to a lot of this, so wanted to have an expert double-check things :) Thanks again! :) PS - just for my curiosity, is there a reason that the capacitor is between 1OE and 2OE? I was just curious the difference it made being placed there versus on one side or the

Re: [beagleboard] Using Beagle board to get RSSI of a device

2014-05-30 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:48 AM, suleman@gmail.com wrote: Hi Richard, Running uname -r reveals that our driver version is 3.13.0-24-generic on my PC and 3.2.16-x11 on our board. Also when we run modinfo ath9k_htc on our PC we get 3.13.0-24-generic in the vermagic and if we run sudo

Re: [beagleboard] apt-get upgrade crashes beagle bone black (shuts down)

2014-05-30 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Eric Fort eric.f...@gmail.com wrote: I just flashed my beagle bone black with images_BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.5-2014-05-14-2gb.img after verifying the md5sum and aot-get update. when I issue apt-get upgrade the board initially looks to be properly processing

[beagleboard] detecting BBB version?

2014-05-30 Thread ivo welch
easy question---how do I detect in software reliably the type and version of the BBB board that I am running? /iaw -- 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

Re: [beagleboard] detecting BBB version?

2014-05-30 Thread Gerald Coley
Read the EEPROM. Gerald On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 9:08 AM, ivo welch ivo...@gmail.com wrote: easy question---how do I detect in software reliably the type and version of the BBB board that I am running? /iaw -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received

Re: [beagleboard] Security when connecting autonomous BB to the Internet

2014-05-30 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 3:13 AM, Dieter Wirz didi.w...@gmail.com wrote: Before you can hardening a Debian server you have to make a normal Debian Server out of it... Login as root in the terminal (e.g. with putty from a win machine): root@arm:~# adduser prz # add a new regular user with

[beagleboard] Re: u-boot: invalid extent block

2014-05-30 Thread Tom Rini
On Thursday, May 29, 2014 4:22:39 PM UTC-4, Christof Meerwald wrote: Hi, I tried to upgrade to kernel 2.15.0-rc7-bone1 (http://rcn-ee.net/deb/trusty-armhf/v3.15.0-rc7-bone1/), but all I got was an error from u-boot invalid extent block. I am assuming this is a bug in u-boot - is there

[beagleboard] RTC options: Was The CryptoCape is now available at SparkFun Electronics

2014-05-30 Thread Mike
Changed subject as this is getting away from Joshua's original post about the CryptoCape. On 05/29/2014 10:01 PM, Eric Fort wrote: Are you guys talking about the crypto cape or the RTC cape? The crypto capediscussed in this thread uses a ds3231 not a ds1307. Also why anyone *needs* the rtc

[beagleboard] Re: Best way to connect to Arduino via serial?

2014-05-30 Thread myerscountry12
Haha, I wish it was that simple as having everything the same voltage ;) Unfortunately, most of my sensors run at 5v, so it's either doing level shifting on 30+ sensors, or on one connection between the Arduino and BBB. To be honest, if I'd been able to run everything at 3v3, I'd have gotten a

Re: [beagleboard] Security when connecting autonomous BB to the Internet

2014-05-30 Thread William Hermans
*Before you can hardening a Debian server you have to make a normal* * Debian Server out of it...* * Login as root in the terminal (e.g. with putty from a win machine):* * root@arm:~# adduser prz # add a new regular user with password* * root@arm:~# deluser debian # remove the Testuser* *

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Can the BBB get damaged due to a hard power down?

2014-05-30 Thread cwrseckford
On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 6:31:23 PM UTC+1, RobertCNelson wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 12:25 PM, stino stijnd...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: I think Gerald was actaully saying the processor might get damaged. I don't see how a read-only filesystem would solve this a battery powered

[beagleboard] RCN kernel USB question on 3.15.0-rc5-bone0.1

2014-05-30 Thread David Lambert
I just compiled RCN kernel 3.15.0-rc5-bone0.1. All seemed to work well until I realized I could not access any USB devices; 'lsusb' gives the message: unable to initialize libusb: -99 Anyone have any suggestions, or is my adoption of 3.15 premature? Regards, Dave. -- For more options, visit

Re: [beagleboard] RCN kernel USB question on 3.15.0-rc5-bone0.1

2014-05-30 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:15 AM, David Lambert d...@lambsys.com wrote: I just compiled RCN kernel 3.15.0-rc5-bone0.1. All seemed to work well until I realized I could not access any USB devices; 'lsusb' gives the message: unable to initialize libusb: -99 Anyone have any suggestions, or is my

Re: [beagleboard] Eclipse C and Remote Debugging

2014-05-30 Thread Simon Platten
Anyone? Please? On Thursday, 29 May 2014 21:00:56 UTC+1, Simon Platten wrote: Can you suggest a good site for setting up eclipse with the Linaro toolchain, I've got the toolchain installed on ubuntu 14.04 in: /home/simon/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2014.03_linux In eclipse, I have

Re: [beagleboard] Eclipse C and Remote Debugging

2014-05-30 Thread William Hermans
Simon, you've been at this since last year. SO why don't you get a book on GCC and start reading ? On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Simon Platten simonaplat...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone? Please? On Thursday, 29 May 2014 21:00:56 UTC+1, Simon Platten wrote: Can you suggest a good site for

Re: [beagleboard] Eclipse C and Remote Debugging

2014-05-30 Thread William Hermans
Either that, or ask this question on the eclipse forums. This is a GCC / Eclipse question more than anything else. On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:14 AM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: Simon, you've been at this since last year. SO why don't you get a book on GCC and start reading ?

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Dude, where's my BeagleBone Black?

2014-05-30 Thread Jones Jebaraj
Thank You Gerald for the reply. It seems I have to wait because the two messages sent to the distributor didnt fetch me a reply. Waiting On Sunday, May 25, 2014 11:11:29 PM UTC+5:30, Gerald wrote: We have shipped about 5,200 of them,

[beagleboard] Out of space immediately after flash

2014-05-30 Thread Mike
I flashed a Rev B machine with 3.8.13 bone50 2gb image and added cape-universal with HDMI off and this is what I get Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 1715936 1504988

Re: [beagleboard] Eclipse C and Remote Debugging

2014-05-30 Thread Simon Platten
I know C and C++ very well...I've been developing in it since the 80's. What I find difficult is the lack of complete information, is it to much to expect that having bought the hardware for the software and documentation to be complete? Sorry, I'm so fed up with dead ends...and pissy people

Re: [beagleboard] Eclipse C and Remote Debugging

2014-05-30 Thread Simon Platten
true, is it to much to ask to use an IDE? I have it all working for Java, would just like to do the same for C. On Friday, 30 May 2014 19:37:58 UTC+1, RobertCNelson wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Simon Platten simona...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: I know C and C++ very

Re: [beagleboard] apt-get upgrade crashes beagle bone black (shuts down)

2014-05-30 Thread Eric Fort
powering the board from a new 5V 6A supply. it does *NOT* appear to be a power issue. 100% repeatable in that I loose connectivity and the network drops until reboot. The first time this happened I went to check on it all lights were off as if it powered down. the second time I went to see

Re: [beagleboard] Eclipse C and Remote Debugging

2014-05-30 Thread lee
Frankly, when developing for embedded platforms, yes, IDEs are too much to ask for. 90% of embedded programming today is done with command-line tools as it has been for decades. Once in a while someone builds an IDE, but they are invariably so limited in application as to be more or a

Re: [beagleboard] Eclipse C and Remote Debugging

2014-05-30 Thread Simon Platten
I've been writing software for various embedded platforms for a long time, MSP430, Echelon, PIC's. In the case of MSP430, the development suite was based on Eclipse. When writing software for PC104 platforms using QNX, the IDE was Momentics, which is eclipse. The assumption always seems to

[beagleboard] BBB not taking saved image from microSD card

2014-05-30 Thread Jack H
I am new to BBB and Angstrom and am having a problem getting my custom image of the eMMC on one of my BBBs to load onto my second board. Or back onto the board it was originally copied from. I am using the procedure from here http://elinux.org/BeagleBone_Black_Extracting_eMMC_contents; and it

Re: [beagleboard] AM335X driver not found

2014-05-30 Thread evancomplex852312
I have the same problem too. AM335x USB problem and my laptop keeps on detecting and not detecting the BB Black alternatively. At first, I was unable to install the drivers downloaded from the official site as the error message keeps on saying the current language is not supported by the

[beagleboard] Re: New Debian 2014-05-14 image linked on beagleboard.org/latest-images

2014-05-30 Thread Mike
Serious problem with this release - here~s the df on it right after installÇ Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 1715936 1503116 123988 93% / udev

Re: [beagleboard] Eclipse C and Remote Debugging

2014-05-30 Thread lee
I have no doubt you are correct, much documentation is atrocious. I'm even more experienced than you (I'm 50, been programming since 1979), but I spend a lot of time on Google hunting down undocumented software features. Like everything else, documentation requires resources to create, and

Re: [beagleboard] Out of space immediately after flash

2014-05-30 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Mike maxmikes...@gmail.com wrote: I flashed a Rev B machine with 3.8.13 bone50 2gb image and added cape-universal with HDMI off and this is what I get Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Available Use% Mounted on rootfs

Re: [beagleboard] Eclipse C and Remote Debugging

2014-05-30 Thread John Syn
From: Simon Platten simonaplat...@gmail.com Reply-To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, May 30, 2014 at 12:28 PM To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Eclipse C and Remote Debugging I've been writing software for various embedded platforms for a long time,

Re: [beagleboard] GNU GCC C compiler for PRU

2014-05-30 Thread dinuxbg
I couldn't find a description of TI's PRU C ABI. Can somebody help by publicly posting it? If TI PRU C ABI turns out to be secret, then what do you think GCC PRU ABI should look like? Thanks, Dimitar On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 9:27:17 PM UTC+3, din...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, May 21,

Re: [beagleboard] Can the BBB get damaged due to a hard power down?

2014-05-30 Thread jmelson
From: Brandon I brando...@gmail.com javascript: Reply-To: beagl...@googlegroups.com javascript: Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at 1:18 PM To: beagl...@googlegroups.com javascript: Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Can the BBB get damaged due to a hard power down? For the damage question, yes,

Re: [beagleboard] Eclipse C and Remote Debugging

2014-05-30 Thread William Hermans
Simon, you may think I'm trying to be a smart ass but I'm not. Using Code Composer studio, and various other IDE's for various platforms does not mean you understand how to setup / use a GCC toolchain from the command line. Which is really what you need to know to understand to use these properly.

[beagleboard] Debian flash problem BBB rev. A6A vs rev B

2014-05-30 Thread Mike
I used the 3.8.13 bone50 image to flash to both revs here is the difference rev. A6A root@beaglebone:~# uname -a Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone50 #1 SMP Tue May 13 13:24:52 UTC 2014 armv7l GNU/Linux root@beaglebone:~# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used

Re: [beagleboard] Eclipse C and Remote Debugging

2014-05-30 Thread William Hermans
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Debugging-GDB-Eclipse/dp/1593271743 ?? On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:38 PM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: Simon, you may think I'm trying to be a smart ass but I'm not. Using Code Composer studio, and various other IDE's for various platforms does not

Re: [beagleboard] Debian flash problem BBB rev. A6A vs rev B

2014-05-30 Thread William Hermans
Mike, what is the problem ? Space left on disk ?I think there is a bare-fs install somewhere too, but as to where you'd have to ask Robert Nelson ( as I build my own and dont remember ). On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Mike maxmikes...@gmail.com wrote: I used the 3.8.13 bone50 image to flash

Re: [beagleboard] Debian flash problem BBB rev. A6A vs rev B

2014-05-30 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Mike maxmikes...@gmail.com wrote: I used the 3.8.13 bone50 image to flash to both revs here is the difference rev. A6A root@beaglebone:~# uname -a Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone50 #1 SMP Tue May 13 13:24:52 UTC 2014 armv7l GNU/Linux root@beaglebone:~# df

Re: [beagleboard] Debian flash problem BBB rev. A6A vs rev B

2014-05-30 Thread William Hermans
I could always point him to your build from scratch instructions RObert ;) On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Mike maxmikes...@gmail.com wrote: I used the 3.8.13 bone50 image to flash to both revs here is the

Re: [beagleboard] Debian flash problem BBB rev. A6A vs rev B

2014-05-30 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 4:54 PM, William Hermans yyrk...@gmail.com wrote: I could always point him to your build from scratch instructions RObert ;) I did, 45 mins ago! ;) Some new users... They like to complain but don't read the replies! ;) Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/

Re: [beagleboard] Debian flash problem BBB rev. A6A vs rev B

2014-05-30 Thread Mike
I apologize for not reading replies, but I cannot find my original posts I guess I should have bookmarked them On Friday, May 30, 2014 2:56:02 PM UTC-7, RobertCNelson wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 4:54 PM, William Hermans yyr...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: I could always point him to

Re: [beagleboard] Debian flash problem BBB rev. A6A vs rev B

2014-05-30 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Mike maxmikes...@gmail.com wrote: I apologize for not reading replies, but I cannot find my original posts I guess I should have bookmarked them Really? That's nice to know. Good Luck on your project! (but you won't get this message anyways) Regards, --

Re: [beagleboard] Debian flash problem BBB rev. A6A vs rev B

2014-05-30 Thread Mike
Ahh Robert, keep your shirt on; we all get days with compounded problems; just because my job is different from yours doesn't mean I'm demeaning yours; we're all trying to make Debian succeed in our own way. Dealing with Linux is just a tiny part of my job so when it changes as drastically as it

Re: [beagleboard] Debian flash problem BBB rev. A6A vs rev B

2014-05-30 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Mike maxmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Ahh Robert, keep your shirt on; we all get days with compounded problems; just because my job is different from yours doesn't mean I'm demeaning yours; we're all trying to make Debian succeed in our own way. Dealing with Linux

Re: [beagleboard] Debian flash problem BBB rev. A6A vs rev B

2014-05-30 Thread John Syn
From: Mike maxmikes...@gmail.com Reply-To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, May 30, 2014 at 4:22 PM To: beagleboard@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Debian flash problem BBB rev. A6A vs rev B Ahh Robert, keep your shirt on; we all get days with compounded problems;

[beagleboard] Re: Debian flash problem BBB rev. A6A vs rev B

2014-05-30 Thread Jesse Forgues
Mike, Which post would you like help with? ;) Out of space immediately after flash: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/beagleboard/etpYcY6aHHc/ceNDm_15s8YJ New Debian 2014-05-14 image linked on beagleboard.org/latest-images

[beagleboard] bb.org debian next...

2014-05-30 Thread Robert Nelson
So here's some random thoughts... Now that the wheezy images is out, (We will still maintain it!) there were a few things i wished it had working out of the box cough sgx /cough. So on that note, I've been looking at what we have queued up for Jessie (which should freeze november-ish, ship 7.0 6

Re: [beagleboard] Security when connecting autonomous BB to the Internet

2014-05-30 Thread Richard-tx
On Friday, May 30, 2014 10:30:00 AM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote: If a person can not figure this out on their own, they probably deserve to get rooted, or whatever else happens to them. Some would also argue removing root. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss

Re: [beagleboard] Security when connecting autonomous BB to the Internet

2014-05-30 Thread Richard-tx
Removing root would certainly make it secure. usermod -d / root userdel -r root will make it absolutely secure. Not terribly useful but very secure. That also brings up the #1 dumbest idea in computer security. #1) Default Permit Read more at: