Anyone else here having a lot of Windows 10 issues?

rwk

This is more of a BeagleBone Black issue, but I'm finding that we're having a lot of problems getting Windows 10 computers to talk to the BeagleBone/Bela over USB. As in, most of our Windows 10 machines here are unable to do it at all (as a fallback, we've used the ethernet). Typically, the device is recognized with the standard bone_d64.exe drivers, but only as a nonfunctional comm device, and not as a network device.

This primarily is just for "fresh install" Windows 10 PCs. Those upgraded from Windows 7 seem to operate fine.

Anyone else encountered this, and have a good, robust solution for this?

I've worked through the various techniques mentioned in this article:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-networking-winpc/windows-10-vs-remote-ndis-ethernet-usbgadget-not/cb30520a-753c-4219-b908-ad3d45590447?auth=1

But most of these don't seem to work:

Replacement drivers, signed or unsigned, won't load since Windows 10 refuses the driver with a "you've already got the best driver" error. This is with or without booting in "unsigned driver" mode.
Editing rndiscmp.inf hasn't seemed to work, either, still loading the BBB as a (nonfunctioning) COM device.

Anyone gotten around this by changing how the BBB reports itself for RNDIS?

giuliomoro

sad to hear that. The few reports from Windows 10 users we had were that the instructions at http://beagleboard.org/getting-started were sufficient (though I must admit it is painful to have to disable temporary security features of Windows in order to get this to work).

Are you using the latest bela image? You are if you got your board / SD card from us after November this year. If you are not, consider upgrading to this new image. It has a 4.4 kernel which uses configfs for the RNDIS device setup, so you may be able to tweak it and see if that helps for you. Let us know what (if) works for you.

rwk

giuliomoro Let me try updating the bela image. Thanks.

(We're potentially dealing with a lot of end-users if Bela works out for us, some we're interested in keeping configuration as simple as possible)

rwk

Interesting. The previous bela image I had (ordered in September, IIRC) was problematic. Just re-flashing the SD card with the latest and it seems functional on my Windows 10machine. I'll verify with another fresh Windows 10 laptop just to confirm.

Thanks. I'm somewhat embarrassed I didn't try updating the Bela image first.

giuliomoro

Ok, did you have to use any specific trick to get it to work? If you are a github user, you should be able to edit the wiki page directly if there is any helpful piece of information you are willing to share.

rwk

giuliomoro I was somewhat surprised to see it show up after flashing that image. So, to my knowledge, nothing special (but this particular laptop has had all sorts of changes added and reverted in previous attempts at getting this working)