By the way . . . Yes, I can read the dts files fairly easily. The problem is knowing which > overlays are included for a given device. >
Everything in /lib/firmware/ On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 6:18 PM, William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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. > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CALHSORo9taMR1yn4d44vyoDrCYuDUfWV9E81WeVWQ9TWPXwDwQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
