On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 3:06 PM, codemonkey <tea...@burfl.com> wrote:

> Your intuition seems to be very good. After much testing, I now can see
> that as soon as I enable "dtb=am335x-boneblack-emmc-overlay.dtb" and
> reboot, the system does come up but wlan0 is no longer known. By that I
> mean that "ifconfig -a" and "connmanctl technologies" both fail to list it.
> The odd thing is that having setup wlan0 with connmanctl, it does come up
> and run and I can login (although it may quit after awhile).
>
> Yes, I can read the dts files fairly easily. The problem is knowing which
> overlays are included for a given device.
>
> Between the problems mentioned above and the failures that I'm seeing
> trying to use config-pin to setup the gpios, I guess I'm wondering if there
> is anyone who is actively working on getting the BBGW DT running. This is
> supposed to be a simple port of an existing application to the BBGW because
> we don't need hdmi and would like to add wifi. Of course, the desire is to
> reduce cost as well.
>
> If there is anyone working on the DT issues for the BBGW, I would
> appreciate a note. If I don't hear soon, I will simply recommend that we
> move to the BBBW instead.
>

My understanding that the two boards, BBGW and BBBW both use the same
wireless radio. I have not looked into that personally, because I do not
own either one. But assuming that were fact, I'd probably try using the
BBBW wireless board overlay. Because I do have hands on using the same
overlay you mentioned in your first post, on several beaglebone greens. The
reason why it works, is that the beaglebone green has no HDMI framer, and
that overlay disables HDMI video, and audio.

So I'd probably try to compile the BBBW overlay
https://github.com/RobertCNelson/dtb-rebuilder/blob/4.4-ti/src/arm/am335x-boneblack-wireless-emmc-overlay.dts
and see if it worked.

You'd need git installed, then just git clone that whole repo( not just
that one file ), then . . .

cd into the working directory
make
make install

To test it. If I had a BBGW wireless I'd test it myself before hand. But I
don't . . . Also keep in mind that I'm not 100% sure that overlay won't
damage your board, but I really do not see how it could . . . which is why
I'd dive right in myself if I had the hardware in hand.

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