RE: Beagle bone Black Window 10 Driver Fix

partha_pe — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 11:04:06 GMT

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.

RE: Beagle bone Black Window 10 Driver Fix

larryloen — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 03:35:18 GMT

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.

RE: Beagle bone Black Window 10 Driver Fix

clem57 — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 01:36:34 GMT

Windoze is not my favorite especially 10.