BeagleBone Black does not detect USB

2
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Having trouble accessing the filesystem of a BBB through the USB port. On connecting the USB, the power turns on, but dmesg doesn't show any new messages. I can ssh through wlan only. Tried accessing it through Ubuntu and OSX with no luck. Other BBB's work fine with my laptop.

Thoughts?

uname -a:

Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone47 #1 SMP Fri Apr 11 01:36:09 UTC 2014 armv7l GNU/Linux

lsmod:

Module                  Size  Used by
g_multi                47670  2 
libcomposite           14299  1 g_multi
mt7601Usta            601404  0

/etc/network/interfaces:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
    wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
iface default inet dhcp

iface usb0 inet static
    address 192.168.7.2
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    network 192.168.7.0
    gateway 192.168.7.1

ifconfig:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr d0:39:72:14:ec:76  
          inet addr:10.1.10.208  Bcast:10.1.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::d239:72ff:fe14:ec76/64 Scope:Link
          inet6 addr: 2601:9:4500:3500:d239:72ff:fe14:ec76/64 Scope:Global
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:103712 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:112357 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:7777187 (7.4 MiB)  TX bytes:20177281 (19.2 MiB)
          Interrupt:40 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

usb0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 9a:9c:ba:f4:23:8a  
          inet addr:192.168.7.2  Bcast:192.168.7.3  Mask:255.255.255.252
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
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linuxusbhardwarebeagleboneblackusb-drive
What usb device do you connect? Have yue tested it on ubuntu/debian? Have you tested it with this bb os in qemu or something? – A. Binzxxxxxx
I connected the BBB through the client port to my computer and others, tested in Ubuntu, OSX, and Windows with no luck. – ThatSnail

3 Answers

0
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Maybe your usb device is not supported (driver) or it needs to much power. try it with a powered usb hub.

0
votes

I had the same problem while connecting BeagleBone-Black in Ubuntu using USB Device. Just connect through USB and wait for 2-3 minutes, OS will take some time to recognize it as a USB Device.

0
votes

On a recent beaglebone (I tested it on blue, but probably it's the same for black, etc):

  1. make sure you connect micro-USB, as the standard one can only power it

  2. add the udev rules, as they say in getting-started troubleshooting:

    their script just puts a new rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/73-beaglebone.rules and reloads udev rules sudo udevadm control --reload-rules

  3. ~10 seconds after power on, it should show up in lsusb on your desktop linux as

    Bus 003 Device 007: ID 1d6b:0104 Linux Foundation Multifunction Composite Gadget

    plus the log in journalctl -f (a long log of configuring it), and a couple new net interfaces in ip addr, like

    enxf45eab539a85: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
  ...
  inet 192.168.6.1/30
enxf45eab539a82: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
  ...
  inet 192.168.7.1/30

At that point you should get