Re: No USB on BeagleBone White

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2015-04-09 15:40, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 09:54:22AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 2015-04-08 09:33, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 09:25:25AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>> I need to resurrect my old BeagleBone White and I'm trying to
>>>> do it using Poky/Yocto + meta-ti.  I've managed to build and
>>>> boot my board, but it detects nothing when something is plugged
>>>> into the USB [not OTG/serial-port] port.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas what I need to do to get this going?  The board is
>>>> pretty useless to me without the extra USB.
>>>
>>> Which kernel recipe do you use?
>>>
>>
>> I used the default from meta-ti/master
>>    linux-ti-staging/3.14.35-r22e+gitrAUTOINC+b60f54ead7
>>
>> I also had an old image left around from last June which was a 3.12.20
>> kernel which has the same behaviour.
>>
>> I've tried this on both a BeagleBone Black and White (I have
>> one of each side-by-side on my desk) and USB does not work
>> on either.
>>
>> Is there some configuration I'm missing or something?
>
> Can you check that you have these 2 commits in your OE-Core layer:
>
> http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=70a695735e0a7d14448f2f5a9986bfe105210a91
> http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=6aae37c66fb6e7153b829ad860b7e7f94e804bd4
>

Yes, I'm using the latest master.

This question did lead me to the answer: my image had no kernel
modules, hence there was no USB support!  I added in the correct
modules and now I have USB.

Thanks

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