Thanks so much for your help Robert!
I will upgrade my kernel and give it a try.

Thanks!
Dan

> On Sep 18, 2017, at 3:13 PM, Robert Nelson <robertcnel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Dan Tian <dt...@bluerover.ca> wrote:
>> Hi Robert,
>> Thanks for your reply. My BBB wireless is indeed running the default image 
>> debian 4.4. As you said, out of box after the beagle is powered it acts as 
>> an access point (wifi tether mode) and I can connect my PC to it. However, 
>> my issue with this is I have to disable wifi tether in connmanctl in order 
>> to connect my beagle to a second AP, with wifi tether on, my BBB wireless is 
>> unable to find any wifi services with the scan wifi command, with wifi 
>> tether off, my BBB no longer acts as an AP and my PC can no longer access it 
>> via its local wifi. Do you know a way that I can have both wifi tether and 
>> connect to a second AP at the same time? This is actually why I am exploring 
>> the wifi direct option, from my understanding it is peer to peer wifi which 
>> is different from tether mode. Hopefully my explanation makes sense to you.
>> Thanks again!
> 
> Yes, that was a bug in the November 2016 snapshot.  We fixed that like
> a week later...  But the damage had been done, as it was teh shipping
> image..
> 
> Feel free to grab anything newer:
> 
> https://beagleboard.org/latest-images
> 
> http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Robert Nelson
> https://rcn-ee.com/

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