BBGW Internet-over-USB connectivity problem

[Evgeny Kirshin]

Hello,

I have Beaglebone Black board, which I connected to a USB and was able to set up Internet access from the BBB using network sharing on a Windows 8 PC. E.g. I could successfully ping google.com from the BBB.

Recently I started playing with the Beaglebone Green Wireless and I cannot setup Internet connection from the BBGW the same way as with the BBB. 

The steps I follow are:

1. Install Beaglebone drivers (BONE_D64.exe).

2. Connect the BBGW to USB, wait until another "Local Area Connection" appears (Linux USB Ethernet/RNDIS Gadget). 

3. Share Internet connection in the properties of my laptop's Ethernet connection (with Internet access) to the "Local Area Connection".

4. In the properties of "Local Area Connection" (TCP/IP V4 page) choose to Obtain IP address and DNS servers automatically.

5. Login to BBGW over SSH using putty.

6. Execute commands as follows:

It looks like it cannot reach even the PC that it is connected to. 

Pinging to itself (192.168.7.2) works fine.

I thought it could be a firewall/antivirus software, but disabling them didn't change anything. Also, same procedure to share Internet to BBB works well. 

Does anyone have an idea what can be the issue?

Thank you.

[Evgeny Kirshin]

All right, I got it solved today. For those who will have the same problem, here is what helped me:

First of all, I booted from uSD with latest image taken from here: https://beagleboard.org/latest-images (I used the first one, which is at the moment "Jessie for BeagleBone via microSD card").

Second, I had to re-install the RNDIS driver on Windows 8. I noticed that sometimes it gets stuck (even on BBB that I used previously) - when pinging 8.8.8.8 (after adding the gateway to /sbin/route) it was getting stuck with the line output "PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data." and timed out after some time.

Uninstalling the RNDIS driver was also tricky. It looks like uninstalling the four "Beaglebone Driver..." items from "Programs and Features" did not clean uninstall the driver and I had the same settings of the RNDIS adapter when I plugged back the BBGW (i.e. I saw the same name of the network adapter as previously and my internet connection was already shared with the adapter). When I uninstalled RNDIS driver from Device Manager, it helped. The name of the RNDIS adapter changed and, I believe, other (hidden ?) settings got cleared too, which solved my connectivity issues.

I hope this helps other struggling people.