I can confirm that the UWN200 (and UWN100) are working well with the fix Robert mentioned. I'm getting a solid connection with WPA2 encryption.
On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 5:51:19 PM UTC-5, Jason Kridner wrote: > > The latest BeagleBone Debian images are now posted at: > http://beagleboard.org/latest-images/ > > If you've upgraded the firmware on your BeagleBone or BeagleBone Black in > the past, the experience will be quite similar, but you might find the eMMC > flashing times a bit faster (~15 minutes rather than ~45 minutes) due to > less post-installation processing. Using the 2GB uSD card image also > flashes a bit faster and can be resized to whatever your uSD card size is > using some scripts under /opt/scripts/tools. > > Many, many thanks to Robert Nelson, Rob Rittman, Dave Anders, Cody Lacey, > the Cloud9 IDE team and so many others in getting us this far. > > Please take the time to give a detailed look over this image and report > any issues to the bug tracker on elinux.org: > http://bugs.elinux.org/projects/debian-image-releases > > While plugged in over USB, you'll see the familiar BEAGLE_BONE drive with > START.htm to tell you how to get the drivers configured if you haven't > already done so: > > [image: Inline image 2] > > > Clicking the link or visiting http://192.168.7.2, you'll see the familiar > on-board served documentation: > > [image: Inline image 1] > > I've introduced a few bugs to the documentation ( > http://github.com/beaglebone/bone101 and > http://beagleboard.github.io/bone101), so expect to find a lot of issues > there. Patches are welcome as are notes in the bug tracker to make sure I > don't miss dotting any i's or crossing any t's. This is your chance to try > to get some documentation into the system you'd like to see. I felt it was > pretty safe to save the documentation as an in-beta item because it > shouldn't impact functionality. > > One of the biggest new features you'll see is when you click on the Cloud9 > IDE link: > > [image: Inline image 3] > > This is a pre-open-source-beta-only release of version 3 of their IDE. > Down at the bottom of the Cloud9 IDE you'll see a new terminal window that > runs a full 'tmux' session. You can open up a bunch of these and it makes > logging into the board and executing command-line operations *super* simple. > > Cloud9 IDE version 3 now includes support for Python and the Adafruit_BBIO > library is included in these Debian images. That means you can simply paste > in your Python code and hit the "run" button, without any additional > download. I checked this out myself by doing a quick LED blink using the > Adafruit tutorial ( > http://learn.adafruit.com/blinking-an-led-with-beaglebone-black/writing-a-program > ): > > [image: Inline image 4] > > You should also note that the /var/lib/cloud9 directory now contains a git > clone of that bone101 repo (http://github.com/beagleboard/bone101), so > you can start using the Cloud9 IDE to edit the content live. What I > recommend is creating your own fork of the repo and sending me pull > requests of any changes you'd like to see. > > You can also edit C/C++ code in the Cloud9 IDE, but no 'builder' or > 'runner' plug-ins are provided. You will, however, find the > Userspace-Arduino (http://elinux.org/Userspace_Arduino) code in > /opt/source/Userspace-Arduino. Here's a quick little exercise you can do to > blink LED0: > > root@beaglebone# cd > /opt/source/Userspace-Arduino/arduino-makefile/examples/Blink > root@beaglebone# perl -i -pe 's/13/14/g' Blink.ino > root@beaglebone# make > root@beaglebone# ./build-userspace/Blink.elf > > For more advanced C/C++ developers, future releases should include > https://github.com/jackmitch/libsoc. > > Those familiar with Linux will also note that the init system is > 'systemd', which has been helpful in providing reasonable boot times. If > you are looking for the journal, you can explore it using > 'systemd-journalctl'. > > I use a Mac and despite the latest version of HoRNDIS fixing issues with > Internet Connection Sharing, getting on the WIFI at home makes getting my > BeagleBones on the network much easier, further making grabbing new > packages with 'sudo apt-get install' much simpler. Drivers and firmware for > many common USB WiFi dongles are included, so be sure to report any that > you find missing. These latest images include the drivers for the popular > UWN200 adapters provided by Logic Supply. To test it out myself, I > uncommented and edited the wlan0 entry in /etc/network/interfaces > (including replacing wlan0 with ra0), shutdown, plugged in the adapter and > powered up the board again. I'm seeing the issue "rt28xx_open return > fail!", but I'm sure this is something we can fix in a few days and provide > an updated image. I removed that adapter and plugged in an adapter I bought > from Adafruit (and switched ra0 back to wlan0) and got the issue > "rtl8192cu:_rtl92cu_init_power_on():<0-0> Failed to polling > REG_APS_FSMCO[APFM_ONMAC] done!". Finally, I plugged in a TL-WN822N adapter > I bought from Amazon and BINGO---WiFi!!! Anyway, getting reports on what > adapters work and don't work would be really helpful at this point as we'll > be trying to get a very full set of WiFi drivers included. > > This is just a quick intro to some of the experience and what we are > focused on fine tuning. Please take the time to check it out and let us > know about your experience. It should be known that Koen has continued to > advance the state of the Angstrom Distributions images he provides and > those continue to serve as a more flexible base for building truly custom > Linux distributions needed by many embedded systems developers. However, as > our user base has grown, getting a Debian image that feels a bit more > familiar to Linux novices is something for which I've heard tremendous > demand. If feedback from the community is positive, there will be a switch > as to what distribution comes loaded in the eMMC flash on the boards. I > hope you enjoy it! > > > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.