{"id":26,"date":"2013-06-27T16:43:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T16:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2013-06-27T16:43:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T16:43:23","slug":"usb-power-fix-for-beaglebone-black-running-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/27\/usb-power-fix-for-beaglebone-black-running-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"USB power fix for BeagleBone Black running Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you power your BBB using USB power you&#8217;ve probably found the board will power off unexpectedly and\/or not boot from the SD. This change\u00a0allows &gt; 500mA through the mini-USB port.<\/p>\n<p>Edit the uEnv.txt (located in \/boot) and add this:\u00a0i2c mw 0x24 1 0x3e<\/p>\n<p>Your uEnv.txt fill will end up looking something like this:<\/p>\n<p>uenvcmd=run findfdt; if test $board_name = A335BNLT; then i2c mw 0x24 1 0x3e; setenv mmcde&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To give credit where its due I found the fix here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archlinuxarm.org\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=28&amp;t=5486#p32325\">http:\/\/archlinuxarm.org\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=28&amp;t=5486#p32325<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you power your BBB using USB power you&#8217;ve probably found the board will power off unexpectedly and\/or not boot from the SD. This change\u00a0allows &gt; 500mA through the mini-USB port. Edit the uEnv.txt (located in \/boot) and add this:\u00a0i2c &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/27\/usb-power-fix-for-beaglebone-black-running-ubuntu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}