Help! I have the same problem and it is giving me fits.
I can ping my BBB from my computer (Windows 8) [ping 192.168.7.2] just fine but cannot ping my computer from my BBB [ping 192.168.7.1]. I'm using the provided USB cable and have scoured the internet for help. Any idea what it could be?
After running ifconfig on the BBB:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 7c:66:9d:55:a8:f1
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 TX bytes:0 (0.0
Interrupt:40
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 TX bytes:0 (0.0
usb0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr da:1d:d4:b0:6e:3b
inet addr:192.168.7.2 Bcast:192.168.7.3 Mask:255.255.255.252
inet6 addr: fe80::d81d:d4ff:feb0:6e3b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2067 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1723 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:260447 (254.3 KiB) TX bytes:295490 (288.5 KiB)
my resolv.conf file:
domain localdomain
search localdomain
nameserver 192.168.7.1
nameserver 8.8.8.8
