Hi guys. I’m having loads of trouble getting my BBB to work. I’m new to BB, and linux, so forgive me if these are obvious things.
I plugged it in and installed the drivers and all was good, but I cannot SSH into the device. Resetting the date got me closer, but the connection closes immediately before prompting for a password as in the instructions.
So I tried putting the latest Angstrom image on there. I have the image on an SD card that I downloaded from the links in the BBB served up pages. I unplug the BBB, put the card in, hold the button and plug it back in. The blue light flashes by the 5v plug, but nothing else happens. I decided to release the button and let it sit, and it has been going for over an hour now with no apparent changes.
I did have to use a different diskk imaging software since the windows disk imager you link to will not recognize the flash drive. I’ve used the same software before making boot images for my nook, so it has worked fine in the past.
When I get to step 10 I insert the card, hold the boot switch, then insert the 5v 2.5A power cord. At this point, the power LED begins blinking. The user LEDs never light up.
I get similar results when powering it by connecting to the computer except the power light stays on rather than flashing.
In a terminal (on linux box), run the ssh command you’re using with -v parameter (for verbose). It will give us a better idea whats going on.
SSH normally says why you were rejected although it can take a while to timeout (if you ssh to the wrong IP address for example).
If the connection closing immediately because it isn’t open. it should look like this:
$ ssh 192.168.7.2
ssh: connect to host 192.168.7.2 port 22: Connection refused
@Jason_Kridner I think I’ve found the issue with the power. I hooked up my power adapter to a multimeter and it was bouncing between 4 and 5 volts.
I think the SD issue was from using the built in reader on my laptop. By putting the SD card into my GPS I was able to use it as an external reader and win32diskimager then recognized the drive fine and worked from there.
Third problem was that powering via USB wasn’t working correctly when I held the button down. I don’t know exactly why that was, but plugging it into a powered USB hub instead of my computer fixed the issue.
It is now happily blinking away an updating the.
@Alan_McNeil Hopefully updating this will get things working, but I was getting an error stating that the connection was closed by the host.
If this doesn’t work I’ll try to get more information.
I am new to it as well. I have a raspberry pi, and it works no problem. I can not get the BBB going. Is there a way that newbys can get some help with starting it up? The on line stuff is confusing to me.
I would like to get things going, maybe newbys should stay away from the BBB and stick with the pi?
Just thought I’d pop in and say that now that the power issue was sorted, the update went fine and everything seems to work ok now. I just have to set the date every time I start the device, which is sort of a pain, but I’m sure I’ll figure that out too over time.
Thanks again for the help.
@Michael_Beck what are you having trouble with? Now that I’ve gotten mine going, maybe I’ve stumbled over the same steps.