Someone with greater knowledge may know different, but I suspect you will
be breaking the USB spec if you do this. Power is part of what is expected
on those connectors. However, if all you are using the USB connector for is
power (like a phone charger) there is probably no real downside.
I hav
I may have spoken hastily. See section 6.11.1 in the SRM.
On Sunday, March 23, 2014 12:37:12 AM UTC-7, Patrick Walters wrote:
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> uname -a
> Linux beaglebone 3.8.13 #1 SMP Thu Sep 12 10:27:06 CEST 2013 armv7l
> GNU/Linux
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> Is it possible to control the power to the USB port on the board or
Do you happen to know if this accessible from the CLI?
I tried looking at :/sys/bus/usb/devices/1-0:1.0/port1/power and thought
maybe I could edit the control file, but that didn't seem to work.
6.11 USB Host The board is equipped with a single USB host interface
accessible from a single USB Ty
Pity you didn't search this group to see if someone has already done it
before.
Author: AndrewTaneGlen
Date: Jan 17
Subject: "Disabling/Enabling USB Host Power"
And thanks to Andrew for his helpful contribution.
Regards ...
On Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:36:02 PM UTC+11, Patrick Walters wrote:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/USB1_OC
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/USB1_OC
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/turn$20off$20USB$20power
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/USB$20power$20control
On Wednesday
