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Beagle bone Black Window 10 Driver Fix

djfraz

After receiving my first beaglebone black a couple of weeks ago, I was eager to get started playing around with it.

So I followed the instructions, plugged into my PC, opened the BBB as an external drive and opened the getting started page. So far so good, I downloaded the drivers and ran the wizard.

 

Here is where the problems began, I kept getting an error at the end saying that the wizard was unsuccessful. I keep trying, running as admin, re downloading the drivers, trying to install drivers through device manager; but nothing worked.

So after a lot of expletives and shouting (I had just finished a fifteen hour shift and was already a little annoyed) I got fed up of trying and put the BBB in the drawer to try another day.

 

I haven't heard of anyone on the community having this problem, but whilst searching online I found a lot of other people who this affected.

 

I had a look online and found out that window 10 needs drivers to have a Signature to be allowed to install. So I had a look for how to disable this feature, finding a tutorial online at How to Disable Driver Signature Verification on 64-Bit Windows 8 or 10 (So That You Can Install Unsigned Drivers) from How-To-Geek. I won't go into detail here on how to do this but will give a brief overview.

 

Two options exist for doing this the first permanently disables the requirement for signatures (which I didn't want to do, as I know it is there for security reasons) the second only temporarily disables the function, and that is the way I used.

Basically:

  • Restart computer whilst holding down the shift key
  • Click on "Troubleshoot"
  • Select "Advanced Options"
  • Select "Startup Settings"
  • Press F7
  • Finally click restart

 

Now you can run the driver installer and that should be you. Happy days image

  • in reply to larryloen

    Hi Larry, I am not able to flash beaglebone black in window 10

    will you pls help me out?

  • I had similar problem. Found the solution in https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/beagleboard/-gczCwKR2Rk

    Updating RNDIS driver as given in one of the post in the above link, made it work.

  • I found a much better scheme.

     

    You do not need to install any drivers, you do not need to disable any Windows security.

     

    You use ordinary ethernet for connectivity after a brief period without.  You will want and need some sort of VNC software (probably TightVNC).  You will want this eventually anyway.

     

    The scheme probably works just as well on Mac or Linux.

     

    Steps (easier than it looks, being very pedantic here):

     

    1.  Obtain PuTTY or any other terminal emulator.  Obtain VNC software if you don't already have it.

    2.  When the Beagleboard reports in, figure out what COMx port it reported in as.  This can be done by monitorying DeviceManager (COM and Printer ports) and seeing the new device pop in before you power it up for the first time (or any other time).

    3.  Open a PUTTY session in serial mode and supply the COMx (say, COM5) discovered in step 2.

    4.  You will receive a terminal prompt (that is, you will get the usual Debian/Linux/Unix text-based interface.

    5.  Supply root as the user ID

    6.  Incredibly, it requires no password.  Something will need to be done about this later, but for now, you can "capture" your board and work with it.

    7.  You're in.  Now do an "adduser" to add someone who isn't a total root administrator account.  Put a password on it.

    8.  Hook up the ethernet port.  On almost any modern system, you will be assigned an address.  Do "ifconfig" to find out what it is.
    9.  /etc/init.d/ssh restart      . . .will ensure that the ssh daemon is running.

    10.  Use PUTTY to create an SSH session with the IP address discovered in step 8.

    11.  Sign on as the user you just created.  You will get the usual warning that your Windows machine (or whatever you used) has never seen this machine before.  Allow it as per usual -- you know it is safe because you added the ethernet connection yourself just now.

    12.  Once you sign on, do vncserver    . . .and supply another password for the VNC Session (same or different, it's up to you).

    13.  Use your VNC software (I use TightVNC) to bring up the session.  (Note:  Not sure if RealVNC works here).
    14.  You now have your Beaglebone up and running on your local network, "headless" (no display, keyboard, or mouse attached to it) and are ready to do anything you want.

     

    You should probably add a password for root or make sure ssh disallows sign on as root. 

     

    What I did was search the net and find out how to disable root signon for ssh.  It's an easy edit.  This scheme means you can still capture the machine with the COM port if anything goes wrong.  Since you have manual control over this, it is secure without a password presuming you have physical security.  You could add a root password, but I'm not sure that is really a good idea on most modern Linux systems that tactily operate with sudo and without root directly.

  • in reply to clem57

    I know, but I'm not trying to start an argument on which OS is best. I simply encountered a problem, which may affect other OS as well, and when i found a solution I shared it with the community. As I know if someone else like me gets there first BBB and fails at just installing the drivers, they may just give up completly