On Fri, 3 Apr 2015, Robert Nelson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 3 Apr 2015, Robert Nelson wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > i'm probably just missing the painfully obvious, but is there an
> >> > up-to-date debian BBB 2G SD card image that automatically brings up
> >> > the USB gadget networking (192.168.7.1/192.168.7.2)?
> >>
> >> Well, this one:
> >>
> >> https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/release/2015-03-01/lxde/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.8-lxde-armhf-2015-03-01-2gb.img.xz
> >
> > ah, perfect ... i suspected one of the more functional images had
> > this, i just didn't know which one. accompanying question -- should i
> > have known that, or is there a note somewhere about that distinction
> > between images?
>
> I don't really spell it out anywhere.
>
> Just the big difference between the 4gb/2gb "lxde" images and the 2gb
> "console" image is:
>
> lxde = g_multi
> console = g_ether
>
> where as g_ether doesn't work as nicely as g_multi, but i do get
> usb0/ethX link to show up on my debian workstation.
>
> The only way to "properly" switch the console back to using g_multi
> correcly, would be to add the extra 100Mb fat partition (which the
> lxde images have by default). But the point of the console, was
> something small users can build off of, so that would be a waste..
that's fine, this is perfect.
rday
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