On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:54 AM, <mbbac...@gmail.com> wrote: > My BeagleBone part of a primitive robot with a breadboard strapped to the > top, and servo motors underneath. The wifi dongle was between both. For this > reason, I dug out my unpowered USB hub and used it as an extender to get the > wifi dong'e away from all the metal. I powered the beagle bone with an > external power supply and remoted into it via usb. I was able to get the > Adafruit dongle to connect to my secured home network 1 out of three times > this time around as well as a secured hotspot hosted by my phone. This was > better than the netgrear wna1100 which was only able to connect to the > secured hotspot (not my regular home network). Neither was able to connect > to an unsecured hotspot. Attempts to connect via wifi also seem to cause the > BeagleBone to freeze up frequently. Any ideas?
The is problem with the default 3.8 kernel, if your not using any cape's switch to the 3.13.x based kernel cd /opt/script/tools/ git pull sudo ./update_kernel.sh --beta-kernel > Also, it would be really handy if the default user was root (like on > Angstrom) so that I didn't have to type sudo su before most terminal > commands. This would also allow me to open files more easily. I'm guessing > this would also allow the user to reboot and shutdown the beaglebone, > options which are missing from LXDE at this point, and which cannot be > execute from the command line using the debian user. There is a default root user (no password like Angstrom) we just don't log into that user via lxde. Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- 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/d/optout.
