BeagleBone green

[Fabricio-Valerio]

Hello, I've started to use a BeagleBone Green Board, I'm following the steps from https://beagleboard.org/getting-started, my PC is connected to the board via USB but a network connection hasn't showed up, and I'm unnable to access the BeagleBone. What can I do?

Thanks in advance.

[RobertCNelson]

Are you using Windows, Mac or Linux (what version)?

[Fabricio-Valerio]

Are you using Windows, Mac or Linux (what version)?

I'm Using Windows 8.1

[RobertCNelson]

Just grab the latest iot image:

https://beagleboard.org/latest-images

Use etcher to write the microSD: https://www.balena.io/etcher/

Regards,

[Fabricio-Valerio]

Just grab the latest iot image:

https://beagleboard.org/latest-images

Use etcher to write the microSD: https://www.balena.io/etcher/

Regards,

I've already did that. There is a way to check if I did the proccess correctly?

The image shows what happens when I connect the board via USB.

[RobertCNelson]

The Date's are 2016 in that directory.. HOLD the boot button before you plug in power.. Your boot off the eMMC..

Regards,

[Fabricio-Valerio]

The Date's are 2016 in that directory.. HOLD the boot button before you plug in power.. Your boot off the eMMC..

Regards,

The boot button do you mean S2 - USER button?

[RobertCNelson]

Correct user.

[Fabricio-Valerio]

Now the board is like that:

The First and the third led are blinking.

[RobertCNelson]

first is heartbeat, 3rd should be microsd... check your device manager..

[Fabricio-Valerio]

My device manager: Is it correct?

[RobertCNelson]

yeah, looks correct, if you have windows 8.1's windows update working it should pull down microsoft's driver..

[Fabricio-Valerio]

yeah, looks correct, if you have windows 8.1's windows update working it should pull down microsoft's driver..

My windows update was deactivated, now it's running.

[Fabricio-Valerio]

This image shows the content when the SD card was in the board. I've waited 45 minutes and then disconnected the board from my PC, then when I turned it on again, it was with these files again. And with the SD Card in the board the network adapter showed up and I was able to ping

[RobertCNelson]

Why did you wait 45 Minutes?

Your new image was already running...

Regards

[Fabricio-Valerio]

Why did you wait 45 Minutes?

Your new image was already running...

Regards

But if I remove the SD Card the new image would be still running?

[RobertCNelson]

No, if you remove the microSD, it'll boot the old image on the eMMC.. As you removed the microSD..

Like I asked, why did you wait 45 minutes, are you expecting it to do something for you?

Regards,

[Fabricio-Valerio]

I expected to replace the older image by the newest one. Can I do that? Because my application is going to run in many boards, and I can't (or wasn't expecting) use SD card in each one. Regards.

[RobertCNelson]

That's called a "flasher" image:

[RobertCNelson]

You can convert any non-flasher image to a flasher via:

https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Flashing_eMMC

This allows you to customize the microSD image, before you start flashing a bunch of boards..

Regards,

[Fabricio-Valerio]

You can convert any non-flasher image to a flasher via:

https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Flashing_eMMC

This allows you to customize the microSD image, before you start flashing a bunch of boards..

Regards, Oh, so this "flasher" image allows me to replace the old one, after removing the SD card?

[RobertCNelson]

The flasher will copy the live image from the microSD to the eMMC..

In most cases it'll take around 10 minutes and shut down the board when complete.

[Fabricio-Valerio]

Ok, I'll try it, thank you very much Mr.Robert.

[Fabricio-Valerio]

I've created a File named example.cpp in the directory BeagleBone/Green, and after that the cloud IDE keeps loading: