I too lose power to my USB bus after about a minute of operation. The unpowered USB hub is connected to a cheap USB keyboard, a Razer Death Adder mouse (whose details were included in case the additional current draw from a laser mouse messes anything up), and a micro USB wifi adapter.
I also noticed that when starting up the BBB with the fully loaded hub and an ethernet cable plugged in, the ethernet controller wont connect On Friday, November 15, 2013 7:46:23 PM UTC-5, kfre...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hello, > > First a little bit of a background: > > I have a beaglebone black connected to the mains with a 5V, 1A DC power > supply. > I'm running an Xbee USB adapter board (http://goo.gl/ygIboV), and an XBee > 900HP > (http://goo.gl/0ZhtM6<http://digi.com/products/wireless-wired-embedded-solutions/zigbee-rf-modules/point-multipoint-rfmodules/xbee-pro-900hp>) > > on the USB port. > It's running stock Angstrom Linux. > > The problem is this: > > About every 24 hours, the lights on my Xbee adapter board turn off and the > device is nowhere to be seen on my lsusb output. Usually I can still ssh > into the board after this happens. After a reboot, the board is fine for > another 24 hours before the same thing happens again. > > I have a hunch that the problem is the power supply, but is there anything > else I could try before I go out and buy a new, more powerful supply? > > My other question is why would the Xbee work at all if the problem is in > fact a power supply that isn't strong enough? > > Thanks, > > Kent Friesen > -- 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/d/optout.