Re: [beagleboard] Remote debugging thru SSH

[Wilfredo Nieves]

Just my 2 cents. Your idea is absolutely feasible. If you take a look at
minipwner, it creates an ssh tunnel, which I believe is what you want to
accomplish. The only and most unpredictable problem is going to be the end
user. If they are like me nothing goes on my network unless I am absolutely
sure what it is doing and that I am the one in control of it. So the auto
update idea may be your best option. As for the debugging you may also set
it up so that it records the logs and sends them out at set intervals. That
way the customers are sure that there isn't anyone inside their network
when they shouldn't be.
On Oct 2, 2013 6:05 AM, "monzie"  wrote:

> Problem:
> 1.  You release a wildly successful Beagleboneblack (BBK) product.  The
> product is one where the customer connects the BBK to the Internet thru the
> router on their home LAN (ie. the BBK is behind a router and does NOT have
> a public ip address)
> 2.  After product release you find a major bug in your software, and the
> customer support calls start piling up because of this bug.
> 3.  You find a fix but because most of your customers are not technical,
> it is difficult for them to update the software.  Your customers start
> ranting about how terrible your brainchild is, you start losing hair,
> gaining weight, and wish you had gone into accounting instead of
> engineering.
> 4.  SSH'ing into each BBK would be great because then the fix could be
> easily applied.
>
> I'm thinking of writing a software package that provides a solution to
> this.  In a nutshell:
>
> 1.  A web server (SERVER1) is built and connected to the internet.
> BBK Side:
>
> 2.  Each product is given a unique ID (UNIQUE_ID) before being shipped.
> 3.  A daemon process installed on the BBK sends an HTTP request for a file
> named UNIQUE_ID on SERVER1.  The request is repeated periodically (say once
> every few seconds).
> 4.  If the request is successful then the BBK sets up an SSH connection to
> SERVER1.
>
> Tech Support Side:
> 5.  Tech support has a list of the customers and their unique IDs.
> 6.  When a customer calls in , Tech support creates and SSH connection to
> SERVER1.  THen creates the file UNIQUE_ID on the server.
> 7.  Tech support can now SSH into the customer's BBK.
>
> I am a little unclear still on SSH port forwarding but I am pretty sure
> the SSH connections thru SERVER1 should be relatively easy to set up.
>
> Thoughts, comments, opinions?
> Is there something out there already that is simple to use?
>
> Anybody want to work with me on this?
>
> Monzie
>
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Re: [beagleboard] Remote debugging thru SSH

[Wilfredo Nieves]

You may find these bit of reading interesting. 
http://chamibuddhika.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/ssh-tunnelling-explained/

On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 12:30:33 PM UTC-6, Wilfredo Nieves wrote:
>
> Just my 2 cents. Your idea is absolutely feasible. If you take a look at 
> minipwner, it creates an ssh tunnel, which I believe is what you want to 
> accomplish. The only and most unpredictable problem is going to be the end 
> user. If they are like me nothing goes on my network unless I am absolutely 
> sure what it is doing and that I am the one in control of it. So the auto 
> update idea may be your best option. As for the debugging you may also set 
> it up so that it records the logs and sends them out at set intervals. That 
> way the customers are sure that there isn't anyone inside their network 
> when they shouldn't be. 
> On Oct 2, 2013 6:05 AM, "monzie"  wrote:
>
>> Problem:
>> 1.  You release a wildly successful Beagleboneblack (BBK) product.  The 
>> product is one where the customer connects the BBK to the Internet thru the 
>> router on their home LAN (ie. the BBK is behind a router and does NOT have 
>> a public ip address)
>> 2.  After product release you find a major bug in your software, and the 
>> customer support calls start piling up because of this bug.
>> 3.  You find a fix but because most of your customers are not technical, 
>> it is difficult for them to update the software.  Your customers start 
>> ranting about how terrible your brainchild is, you start losing hair, 
>> gaining weight, and wish you had gone into accounting instead of 
>> engineering.
>> 4.  SSH'ing into each BBK would be great because then the fix could be 
>> easily applied.
>>
>> I'm thinking of writing a software package that provides a solution to 
>> this.  In a nutshell:
>>
>> 1.  A web server (SERVER1) is built and connected to the internet.  
>> BBK Side:
>>
>> 2.  Each product is given a unique ID (UNIQUE_ID) before being shipped.
>> 3.  A daemon process installed on the BBK sends an HTTP request for a 
>> file named UNIQUE_ID on SERVER1.  The request is repeated periodically (say 
>> once every few seconds).  
>> 4.  If the request is successful then the BBK sets up an SSH connection 
>> to SERVER1.
>>
>> Tech Support Side:
>> 5.  Tech support has a list of the customers and their unique IDs.  
>> 6.  When a customer calls in , Tech support creates and SSH connection to 
>> SERVER1.  THen creates the file UNIQUE_ID on the server.
>> 7.  Tech support can now SSH into the customer's BBK.
>>
>> I am a little unclear still on SSH port forwarding but I am pretty sure 
>> the SSH connections thru SERVER1 should be relatively easy to set up.
>>
>> Thoughts, comments, opinions?
>> Is there something out there already that is simple to use?
>>
>> Anybody want to work with me on this?
>>
>> Monzie
>>
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Re: [beagleboard] Remote debugging thru SSH

[Wilfredo Nieves]

You are welcome and to be honest, i would go with what you feel most
comfortable with. I have tried a bunch of different languages and
personally prefer c++. I have found it to be the the most well rounded for
my needs but those were my needs. I have not used python before so i can
not say if it is better or not. It is basically just going to boil down to
what you are comfortable and proficient with. Now please keep in mind that
i have not done much programming in the last 10 years and i am sure things
have changed since then. There may be better languages out there to use.


On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:27 PM, monzie  wrote:

> Thanks for the links, very helpful.
>
> I take your point about privacy.  The use case I am thinking of is this:
> 1.  The product is designed to work wirelessly.  However I expect some
> customers to have issues connecting to their wireless network because they
> don't know their essid, or type in the wrong passphrase, or their router is
> not configured correctly, etc...
> 2.  When the customer exhausts all troubleshooting and still can't
> connect, he can plug in an ethernet cable into the bbk.  A valid ethernet
> connection will signal to the bbk to start the ssh connection.
> 3.  The software is going to be open source, so technical people like
> yourself can configure it as they wish, for instance disabling the ssh
> debugging option.
>
> Any thoughts on the programming environment for the server?  I am leaning
> towards Python.
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 2:40:39 PM UTC-4, Wilfredo Nieves wrote:
>
>> You may find these bit of reading interesting. http://**
>> chamibuddhika.wordpress.com/**2012/03/21/ssh-tunnelling-**explained/<http://chamibuddhika.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/ssh-tunnelling-explained/>
>>
>> On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 12:30:33 PM UTC-6, Wilfredo Nieves wrote:
>>
>>> Just my 2 cents. Your idea is absolutely feasible. If you take a look at
>>> minipwner, it creates an ssh tunnel, which I believe is what you want to
>>> accomplish. The only and most unpredictable problem is going to be the end
>>> user. If they are like me nothing goes on my network unless I am absolutely
>>> sure what it is doing and that I am the one in control of it. So the auto
>>> update idea may be your best option. As for the debugging you may also set
>>> it up so that it records the logs and sends them out at set intervals. That
>>> way the customers are sure that there isn't anyone inside their network
>>> when they shouldn't be.
>>> On Oct 2, 2013 6:05 AM, "monzie"  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Problem:
>>>> 1.  You release a wildly successful Beagleboneblack (BBK) product.  The
>>>> product is one where the customer connects the BBK to the Internet thru the
>>>> router on their home LAN (ie. the BBK is behind a router and does NOT have
>>>> a public ip address)
>>>> 2.  After product release you find a major bug in your software, and
>>>> the customer support calls start piling up because of this bug.
>>>> 3.  You find a fix but because most of your customers are not
>>>> technical, it is difficult for them to update the software.  Your customers
>>>> start ranting about how terrible your brainchild is, you start losing hair,
>>>> gaining weight, and wish you had gone into accounting instead of
>>>> engineering.
>>>> 4.  SSH'ing into each BBK would be great because then the fix could be
>>>> easily applied.
>>>>
>>>> I'm thinking of writing a software package that provides a solution to
>>>> this.  In a nutshell:
>>>>
>>>> 1.  A web server (SERVER1) is built and connected to the internet.
>>>> BBK Side:
>>>>
>>>> 2.  Each product is given a unique ID (UNIQUE_ID) before being shipped.
>>>> 3.  A daemon process installed on the BBK sends an HTTP request for a
>>>> file named UNIQUE_ID on SERVER1.  The request is repeated periodically (say
>>>> once every few seconds).
>>>> 4.  If the request is successful then the BBK sets up an SSH connection
>>>> to SERVER1.
>>>>
>>>> Tech Support Side:
>>>> 5.  Tech support has a list of the customers and their unique IDs.
>>>> 6.  When a customer calls in , Tech support creates and SSH connection
>>>> to SERVER1.  THen creates the file UNIQUE_ID on the server.
>>>> 7.  Tech support can now SSH into the customer's BBK.
>>>>
>>>> I am a little unclear still on SSH port forwarding but I a

Re: [beagleboard] Remote debugging thru SSH

[Wilfredo Nieves]

Actually i was thinking about this some more and i believe that an ssh
tunnel would be a very good option. I would go about the configuration
differently though.

I would add a debug setting that the customer can enable and disable if
they choose to do so.

For instance if they enable it and then connect network cable then the
device creates the tunnel and allows connection.

If they disable it the device terminates the connection and closes the
tunnel. This way if they decide they want their device to run wired then
there is no concern about an open port on the network.

Also a thought would be to have the system monitor the connection and if
after say 1 minute there isn't a response it would automatically disable
debugging or if there is a connection then set a timer for say 5 minutes
this way it gives you time to look at the logs without having to worry
about losing the connection.

And possibly create a custom reboot script "reboot debug" which reboots the
device in debug mode so that if you have to reboot the device remotely you
don't have to ask the customer to turn debug mode on again.

A plus about this is that you shouldn't have to worry about trying to
figure out if it is connected to the network wired or wireless. You should
be able to ssh in either way.


 -WIL



On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:27 PM, monzie  wrote:

> Thanks for the links, very helpful.
>
> I take your point about privacy.  The use case I am thinking of is this:
> 1.  The product is designed to work wirelessly.  However I expect some
> customers to have issues connecting to their wireless network because they
> don't know their essid, or type in the wrong passphrase, or their router is
> not configured correctly, etc...
> 2.  When the customer exhausts all troubleshooting and still can't
> connect, he can plug in an ethernet cable into the bbk.  A valid ethernet
> connection will signal to the bbk to start the ssh connection.
> 3.  The software is going to be open source, so technical people like
> yourself can configure it as they wish, for instance disabling the ssh
> debugging option.
>
> Any thoughts on the programming environment for the server?  I am leaning
> towards Python.
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 2:40:39 PM UTC-4, Wilfredo Nieves wrote:
>
>> You may find these bit of reading interesting. http://**
>> chamibuddhika.wordpress.com/**2012/03/21/ssh-tunnelling-**explained/<http://chamibuddhika.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/ssh-tunnelling-explained/>
>>
>> On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 12:30:33 PM UTC-6, Wilfredo Nieves wrote:
>>
>>> Just my 2 cents. Your idea is absolutely feasible. If you take a look at
>>> minipwner, it creates an ssh tunnel, which I believe is what you want to
>>> accomplish. The only and most unpredictable problem is going to be the end
>>> user. If they are like me nothing goes on my network unless I am absolutely
>>> sure what it is doing and that I am the one in control of it. So the auto
>>> update idea may be your best option. As for the debugging you may also set
>>> it up so that it records the logs and sends them out at set intervals. That
>>> way the customers are sure that there isn't anyone inside their network
>>> when they shouldn't be.
>>> On Oct 2, 2013 6:05 AM, "monzie"  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Problem:
>>>> 1.  You release a wildly successful Beagleboneblack (BBK) product.  The
>>>> product is one where the customer connects the BBK to the Internet thru the
>>>> router on their home LAN (ie. the BBK is behind a router and does NOT have
>>>> a public ip address)
>>>> 2.  After product release you find a major bug in your software, and
>>>> the customer support calls start piling up because of this bug.
>>>> 3.  You find a fix but because most of your customers are not
>>>> technical, it is difficult for them to update the software.  Your customers
>>>> start ranting about how terrible your brainchild is, you start losing hair,
>>>> gaining weight, and wish you had gone into accounting instead of
>>>> engineering.
>>>> 4.  SSH'ing into each BBK would be great because then the fix could be
>>>> easily applied.
>>>>
>>>> I'm thinking of writing a software package that provides a solution to
>>>> this.  In a nutshell:
>>>>
>>>> 1.  A web server (SERVER1) is built and connected to the internet.
>>>> BBK Side:
>>>>
>>>> 2.  Each product is given a unique ID (UNIQUE_ID) before being shipped.
>>>> 3.  A daemon process installed on the BBK sends an HTTP requ

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Extracting eMMC contents using FAT formatted card

[Wilfredo Nieves]

Hi Vincent,

  From your screen shot it looks like you are running Win8. Have you disabled 
driver signature verification to see if the drivers will install?

-Wil

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Re: [beagleboard] Re: Extracting eMMC contents using FAT formatted card

[Wilfredo Nieves]

No problem, glad it worked.

-Wil
On Nov 1, 2013 8:26 PM,  wrote:

> On Friday, November 1, 2013 5:13:02 PM UTC-7, Wilfredo Nieves wrote:
>>
>>   From your screen shot it looks like you are running Win8. Have you
>> disabled driver signature verification to see if the drivers will install?
>>
>
> Hi Wil,
> This worked! Thanks you very much for pointing this out! This is something
> that should be in the getting started...
> Is there any particular reason why the driver is not signed?
> The getting started guide is very detailed and very well done, giving lot
> of useful information, but don't even address a major issue that affects a
> growing number of users (Windows 7 and Vista don't have this issue?).
>
> In my opinion, the BBB is an incredible piece of hardware, way superior to
> the RPi. But it's WAY (and I mean WAY WAY WAY) less user friendly than the
> RPi: no guide is up to date, nothing is working like described in the
> guides, Angstrom is a confidential distrib (why choosing this by default?
> power users can install Angstrom by their own! People wants Ubuntu/Debian!
> (I personally prefer Debian when no GUI because Ubuntu's do-release-upgrade
> always breaks everything)), and this is very unfortunate.
> This gives a poor first user experience, limiting the growth of the
> community. It looks like the product is made for and by hyper specialized
> nerds.
> As I understand, the beagleboard.org projects are community driven, so
> making the product accessible only to a very small part of the population
> is definitively not a good thing.
>
>
> NB: I tried to edit the getting started guide to add the driver related
> issue in the troubleshooting section, but I guess it's not a wiki -- no
> edit link once logged in.
>
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Re: [beagleboard] beagleboneblack don't restart after power fluctuation.

[Wilfredo Nieves]

The reason it powers off is because your ignition switch is not providing
constant power when you turn the key to start. I would try to find a power
source that has power when key is set to on and start.
On Nov 5, 2013 6:21 AM, "neckTwi"  wrote:

> I've connected beagleboneblack to my car power supply with 24V to 5V step
> down. when I power on my car the BBB starts but when I ignite the engine
> BBB stops running and don reboot though the power led is on. Can I fix it
> with software change mentioned at
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/beagleboard/aXv6An1xfqI/mURD3LfQ5dMJ
> ?
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Re: [beagleboard] beagleboneblack don't restart after power fluctuation.

[Wilfredo Nieves]

Ok so why not add a cap to the circuit to keep it powered while you start
the car.
On Nov 5, 2013 6:34 AM, "neckTwi"  wrote:

> Ya I got that! But I am looking for some aiding reactive circuits or some
> magical software fix!
>
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Re: [beagleboard] beagleboneblack don't restart after power fluctuation.

[Wilfredo Nieves]

Cap = capacitor. Just make sure that it is the right size for where you put
it in your circuit. If it is too small i can explode and possibly start a
fire. In your original post you stated that you have a 24V to 5V step down,
so if you place it before the step down make sure it is at least rated for
24V or if you place it after it has to be at least 5V. You may also
consider a voltage monitor circuit to safely power down your BBB to avoid
corrupting the file system.

-Wil


On Nov 5, 2013 6:49 AM, "neckTwi"  wrote:

> cap? is it some electronic circuitry? I donno much abt electronic circuits
> but i can solder few resistors, capacitors and diods on a board. Any help
> is a gr8 favour..
> Thank you.
>
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Re: [beagleboard] beagleboneblack don't restart after power fluctuation.

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I think you should be fine as long as you don't use a value that is too
high or too low. Too high may cause problems with rise time and too low may
not keep enough power supplied for the board to stay powered up. Also  caps
aren't like batteries, the charge almost instantaneously where as batteries
need time to fully charge so as long as you can get the cap charged fast
enough the board should power up without any problems.

-Wil
On Nov 5, 2013 8:27 AM, "satya gowtham kudupudi" 
wrote:

> Thank you. I will give a try. As per the post here
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/beagleboard/aXv6An1xfqI/mURD3LfQ5dMJ?
> the power source should have proper rise time. I'm afraid a capacitor will
> increase the rise time. Any way I'll give a try.
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Re: [beagleboard] beagleboneblack don't restart after power fluctuation.

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Not necessarily , my car is a 95 3kgt and it starts within 1-2 seconds of
turning it over. A cap big enough should be able to handle that. As for the
24v idk how I didn't catch that, but then again who knows it is possible.

-Wil
On Nov 5, 2013 9:30 PM, "Brandon I"  wrote:

> > I've connected beagleboneblack to my car power supply with 24V to 5V
> step down.
>
> 24V "power supply" in a car? If this means you're this from the
> accessories circuit, you're doomed. Accessories are turned off while the
> car is being started, and a cap won't be enough to power the beaglebone,
> since they stay off as long as you're turning the engine. Another problem
> is, you'll corrupt the filesystem with an out-of-the-box beaglebone. You'll
> *have to* use a read only file system.
>
> You could tie the beaglebone directly to the battery (with a fuse of
> course) and use some circuit to monitor when to turn it on and off.
>
> On Tuesday, November 5, 2013 9:24:49 AM UTC-8, Wilfredo Nieves wrote:
>>
>> I think you should be fine as long as you don't use a value that is too
>> high or too low. Too high may cause problems with rise time and too low may
>> not keep enough power supplied for the board to stay powered up. Also  caps
>> aren't like batteries, the charge almost instantaneously where as batteries
>> need time to fully charge so as long as you can get the cap charged fast
>> enough the board should power up without any problems.
>>
>> -Wil
>> On Nov 5, 2013 8:27 AM, "satya gowtham kudupudi" 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you. I will give a try. As per the post here
>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/beagleboard/
>>> aXv6An1xfqI/mURD3LfQ5dMJ? the power source should have proper rise
>>> time. I'm afraid a capacitor will increase the rise time. Any way I'll give
>>> a try.
>>>
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Re: [beagleboard] beagleboneblack don't restart after power fluctuation.

[Wilfredo Nieves]

Very true. So I guess even just using a li-po or li-ion on the bone would
be much easier.

-Wil
On Nov 5, 2013 11:59 PM, "Brandon I"  wrote:

> > A cap big enough should be able to handle that.
>
> Not sure if I did my math right, but for 2 seconds at 2W (beaglebone will
> be booting), and assuming his 24V to 5V regulator can regulate with an
> input voltage all the way down to 12V, that's around 20mF. I guess that's
> doable with $$$.
>
> It wouldn't be as simple as connecting the cap to the accessories line,
> since this would absolutely destroy your relay contacts from the inrush in
> charging this gigantic cap from 0V. And, you would have to throw a diode in
> so you didn't power *all* of your accessories with this cap.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Wilfredo Nieves 
> wrote:
>
>> Not necessarily , my car is a 95 3kgt and it starts within 1-2 seconds of
>> turning it over. A cap big enough should be able to handle that. As for the
>> 24v idk how I didn't catch that, but then again who knows it is possible.
>>
>> -Wil
>> On Nov 5, 2013 9:30 PM, "Brandon I"  wrote:
>>
>>>  > I've connected beagleboneblack to my car power supply with 24V to 5V
>>> step down.
>>>
>>> 24V "power supply" in a car? If this means you're this from the
>>> accessories circuit, you're doomed. Accessories are turned off while the
>>> car is being started, and a cap won't be enough to power the beaglebone,
>>> since they stay off as long as you're turning the engine. Another problem
>>> is, you'll corrupt the filesystem with an out-of-the-box beaglebone. You'll
>>> *have to* use a read only file system.
>>>
>>> You could tie the beaglebone directly to the battery (with a fuse of
>>> course) and use some circuit to monitor when to turn it on and off.
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, November 5, 2013 9:24:49 AM UTC-8, Wilfredo Nieves wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I think you should be fine as long as you don't use a value that is too
>>>> high or too low. Too high may cause problems with rise time and too low may
>>>> not keep enough power supplied for the board to stay powered up. Also  caps
>>>> aren't like batteries, the charge almost instantaneously where as batteries
>>>> need time to fully charge so as long as you can get the cap charged fast
>>>> enough the board should power up without any problems.
>>>>
>>>> -Wil
>>>> On Nov 5, 2013 8:27 AM, "satya gowtham kudupudi" 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thank you. I will give a try. As per the post here
>>>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/beagleboard/
>>>>> aXv6An1xfqI/mURD3LfQ5dMJ? the power source should have proper rise
>>>>> time. I'm afraid a capacitor will increase the rise time. Any way I'll 
>>>>> give
>>>>> a try.
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[beagleboard] Connman VS. networkmanager

[Wilfredo Nieves]

Hi all,

 Can anyone tell me why connman is the default connection manager for BBB.

Just curious because every time i try to connect to wifi with connman i 
have to jump through hoops to try to get it working.
I say try because i have yet to get it working.
Every time i do large or long (time wise) downloads connman dumps the 
connection and i have to reboot to be able to reconnect.

I switched to networkmanager and for the wifi (RT3070 Chipset) all i had to 
do was install kernel-module-rt2800lib and kernel-module-rt2800usb
and the wifi was up and running without a reboot. Also i have been 
downloading every package that opkg lists and have not lost the connection 
(yet).

So why not make networkmanager the default instead of connman? 

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[beagleboard] Re: Connman VS. networkmanager

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Also forgot to mention that i am running wired and wireless simultaneously 
without problems.

-Wil

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Re: [beagleboard] Re: Connman VS. networkmanager

[Wilfredo Nieves]

Ok i can understand the original intent of using connman over
networkmanager and i know that someone had to spend time and effort to
build the packages, but i would personally prefer to have one that works
over one that was intended for the platform.

As to the drivers i also installed them with connman but it would not
connect and it seems other people are having to recompile the drivers and
do some tweaking to to get it to work.

Why go through all the effort when networkmanager just seems to work
without rebuilds and tweaks (in my case anyway).

I know that my case is just a one off at this point in time since i only
have one wifi adapter (i would like to see if this is the same case for
others with different adapters and chipsets), so i thought i would ask to
see what the reasoning behind it was.

Anyway thanks for the reply it was good info.

-Wil


On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Levi Pearson wrote:

> On Sunday, November 10, 2013 1:47:40 PM UTC-7, Wilfredo Nieves wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>  Can anyone tell me why connman is the default connection manager for BBB.
>>
>> Just curious because every time i try to connect to wifi with connman i
>> have to jump through hoops to try to get it working.
>> I say try because i have yet to get it working.
>> Every time i do large or long (time wise) downloads connman dumps the
>> connection and i have to reboot to be able to reconnect.
>>
>> I switched to networkmanager and for the wifi (RT3070 Chipset) all i had
>> to do was install kernel-module-rt2800lib and kernel-module-rt2800usb
>> and the wifi was up and running without a reboot. Also i have been
>> downloading every package that opkg lists and have not lost the connection
>> (yet).
>>
>> So why not make networkmanager the default instead of connman?
>>
>
> The actual reason Angstrom ships with connman instead of networkmanager by
> default is most likely a political one.  The invention of connman was due
> to a perceived desktop-orientation of networkmanager by people who wanted
> to do embedded/IVI work.  I think both have been developed quite a bit
> since then, so the original reasons are probably not relevant anymore, but
> there's probably a lingering perception that connman is for embedded and
> networkmanager is for desktop.
>
> That being said, if you had to install kernel drivers when you installed
> networkmanager, I would suggest those might have been more relevant to
> getting the network up than which manager you used.  I haven't done a lot
> with connman, but I would expect that it does its job just fine when
> configured correctly and working with stable hardware and kernel drivers.
> But if networkmanager is easier for you to configure, by all means use it!
>  It's nice to have options, and someone is bound to have a hard time with
> whatever is chosen as default.
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Re: [beagleboard] Re: opkg update causes BBB to corrupt OS

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Hi Adam
If you hit ctrl+alt+f1 it will bring up a console, then just enter passwd
and enter a password. Then enter systemctl restart gdm.service which brings
the login screen back up. Select other, user=root and password=pass you
entered.
That should get you logged in as root.

-Wil
On Nov 14, 2013 1:44 PM, "Adam Pasternak"  wrote:

> After rebooting a few times, now the B^3 boots to a logon screen giving me
> three choices of login accounts:
>
> mpd
> xuser
> Other..
>
> I cannot log in to the Beaglebone Black as any of these users, because the
> user password is unknown.  And who is "mpd" and "xuser"  anyway?
>
> On Thursday, November 14, 2013 3:26:33 PM UTC-5, Adam Pasternak wrote:
>>
>> I attempted to install updates to support the rlt8192cu chipset for a
>> wireless NIC to use with my BBB. Following Circuitco's own website and
>> tutorial  at   this URL: http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:WiFi
>>
>> I followed the steps, and got to the command  *opkg -t /home/root/tmp
>> upgrade*Seeing this would take a long time, I stepped away from the
>> monitor for an hour and when I came back, the terminal reported that the
>> update procedure had run into issues with no more space remaining on the
>> mounted drive.   When I restarted the B^3,   the screen appears frozen and
>> unresponsive to mouse/keyboard with the message "Could not update
>> ICEauthority file /var/lib/gdm/.ICEauthority"
>>
>> Did I just brick my B^3 ?
>>
>> If so, can anyone tell me (a)  how to restore the original image  and (b)
>>  is this update at the above URL even possible now, because it seems that
>> there isn't even enough space on the onboard memory to add any support for
>> wireless cards?
>>
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Re: [beagleboard] Angstrom not responding to anything

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On Nov 16, 2013 6:12 PM,  wrote:
>
> I cannot get angstrom to do anything. I attempted to update the chip with
a micro scan disk card and the led's bounced around for hours instead of
the 30-45 minutes the tutorial claimed.

I am going to guess you have a BBB since you are trying to update "the
chip".

It sounds like you are using a bootable image instead of a flasher image.

 I cannot login to
> http://beaglebone.local

Are you trying that address from the board or your computer?

Below is my attempt at to install python on the board. Nothing. any hints
this thing just does not work with anything.
> Thanks
>
> login as: root
> root@192.168.7.2's password:

The address tells me you are using USB Ethernet. Is your network connection
from your computer share with the board?

> root@beaglebone:~# cd ~
> root@beaglebone:~# su
> root@beaglebone:~# opkg update
> Downloading
http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/armv7a-vfp-neon/base/Packages.gz
.
> wget: bad address 'feeds.angstrom-distribution.org'
> Downloading
http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/armv7a-vfp-neon/machine/beaglebone/Packages.gz
.
> wget: bad address 'feeds.angstrom-distribution.org'
> Downloading
http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/armv7a-vfp-neon/debug/Packages.gz
.
> wget: bad address 'feeds.angstrom-distribution.org'
> Downloading
http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/armv7a-vfp-neon/gstreamer/Packages.gz
.
> wget: bad address 'feeds.angstrom-distribution.org'
> Downloading
http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/all/Packages.gz
.
> wget: bad address 'feeds.angstrom-distribution.org'
> Downloading
http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/armv7a-vfp-neon/perl/Packages.gz
.
> wget: bad address 'feeds.angstrom-distribution.org'
> Downloading
http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/armv7a-vfp-neon/python/Packages.gz
.
> wget: bad address 'feeds.angstrom-distribution.org'
> Collected errors:
>  * opkg_download: Failed to download
http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/armv7a-vfp-neon/base/Packages.gz,
wget returned 1.
>  * opkg_download: Failed to download
http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/armv7a-vfp-neon/machine/beaglebone/Packages.gz,
wget returned 1.
>  * opkg_download: Failed to download
http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/armv7a-vfp-neon/debug/Packages.gz,
wget returned 1.
>  * opkg_download: Failed to download
http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/armv7a-vfp-neon/gstreamer/Packages.gz,
wget returned 1.
>  * opkg_download: Failed to download
http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/all/Packages.gz,
wget returned 1.
>  * opkg_download: Failed to download
http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/armv7a-vfp-neon/perl/Packages.gz,
wget returned 1.
>  * opkg_download: Failed to download
http://feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/v2012.12/ipk/eglibc/armv7a-vfp-neon/python/Packages.gz,
wget returned 1.
> root@beaglebone:~# okpg install python python-modules python-pyserial
python-numpy python-setuptools python-misc python-pip git exit
> sh: okpg: command not found
> root@beaglebone:~# opkg install python python-modules python-pyserial
python-numpy python-setuptools python-misc python-pip git exit
> Package python-core (2.7.3-r0.3.6) installed in root is up to date.
> Unknown package 'python-modules'.
> Unknown package 'python-pyserial'.
> Package python-numpy (1.4.1-r4.8) installed in root is up to date.
> Unknown package 'python-setuptools'.
> Package python-misc (2.7.3-r0.3.6) installed in root is up to date.
> Unknown package 'python-pip'.
> Package git (1.7.7-r2.8) installed in root is up to date.
> Unknown package 'exit'.
> Collected errors:
>  * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package python-modules.
>  * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package python-pyserial.
>  * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package python-setuptools.
>  * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package python-pip.
>  * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package exit.
> root@beaglebone:~# su
> root@beaglebone:~# ntpdate -b -s -u pool.ntp.org
> Error resolving pool.ntp.org: Name or service not known (-2)
> root@beaglebone:~#

All of these failures suggest no internet connection. Try using an Ethernet
cable for the connection.

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Re: [beagleboard] Re: Angstrom not responding to anything

[Wilfredo Nieves]

Actually their website is back up. I tested it yesterday afternoon and just
now and it works. Also the feeds website has nothing to do with
pool.ntp.orgat the end of the log which also failed.
On Nov 17, 2013 12:52 PM,  wrote:

> That's because their main webserver is down. I've been checking for 2 days
> to download a toolchain to no avail
> http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/
>
> Hocine
>
> On Sunday, 17 November 2013 00:30:34 UTC, franki...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> I cannot get angstrom to do anything. I attempted to update the chip with
>> a micro scan disk card and the led's bounced around for hours instead of
>> the 30-45 minutes the tutorial claimed.  I cannot login to
>>
>>1. http://beaglebone.local Below is my attempt at to install python
>>on the board. Nothing. any hints this thing just does not work with
>>anything.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [beagleboard] Powering BBB via USB charging port on hub

[Wilfredo Nieves]

There is really no need to buy that cable.
If you go to Radio Shack you can get 
thisconnector
 in a two pack for less than half the price.
This is what I used with an old USB cable I had lying around and it works 
well.
A plus is that the housing unscrews so if one of the wires breaks on the 
inside all i have to do is take it apart and resolder it.

-Wil


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[beagleboard] Re: Flashing the memory

[Wilfredo Nieves]

Hi Bill,

That may not be a flasher image. The flashing lights seem to indicate that 
the OS is running. I would connect a monitor to the bone and see if you get 
a display. If you do you may have to run a flasher script to get it to 
flash to the eMMC. 

-Wil

On Tuesday, November 19, 2013 6:32:54 PM UTC-7, Bill Dussault wrote:
>
> I have a file that is an .img file  (ubuntu saucy  13.10 armhf 3.8.13 
> bone28.img)  I load this onto my micro sd card and throw it in the 
> BeagleBone Black and power it up while holding the boot button down but all 
> that happens is the four little led's blink at patterns for several hours 
> and no flashing occurs. Am I doing something wrong. 
>
> Please help
>
> Thanks! 
>
> Bill
>

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[beagleboard] Re: Solved - I now have reliable WiFi on the Bone

[Wilfredo Nieves]

Hello Everybody,

Why not try network manager instead of connman. I was having trouble with 
getting the wifi (Linksys WUSB100v2) to work. Removed connman and installed 
network manager, installed the drivers with opkg and it worked perfect on 
the first try. I have had it running for about a week now besides the 
occasional reboot to get VNC back up and wifi is still working good. 
Haven't tested speed yet but it seems to be running good for being G and 
considering that my phones data connection runs circles around my home data 
connection (best i can get in BFE unless i spend almost triple for only 
double the speed).

-Wil

On Tuesday, November 19, 2013 5:14:16 PM UTC-7, meng...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Hi Carl,
>
> I have the similar problem. I was using edimax based on rtl891cu chipset. 
> The wifi is on and off from time to time. Also it's very slow. I am going 
> to try your solution. May I ask which driver do you use for NetGear WNA 
> adaptor? What speed can you get by using this adaptor?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mengjun
>
> On Thursday, May 2, 2013 11:12:25 AM UTC-4, Carl Johnson wrote:
>>
>> I have been trying for over a month to get reliable WiFi working on the 
>> original BeagleBone and now on the new BeagleBone Black.  I kept seeing 
>> weird behavior, such as randomly dropped or stuttering connections, and 
>> different symptoms depending upon whether the WiFi dongle was plugged 
>> directly into Bone, into an extension cable, or into a powered hub.  
>> There's a lot of online frustration about this, some of which I contributed 
>> to.  It was really unclear to me if the problem was hardware or software 
>> related, or some combination of the two.
>>
>> Long story short, I believe that most of my problems stemmed from 
>> attempting to use dongles based upon the rtl8192cu chipset (I tried several 
>> different ones).  These are very common, widely available, and appear at 
>> first glance to have the best software support on the Bone, at least in the 
>> standard Angstrom distribution.  Most of the online tutorials about how to 
>> get WiFi running on the Bone are using these dongles.  I don't know if or 
>> why the people who wrote these are getting reliable WiFi - I sure didn't.
>>
>> Robert Nelson suggested that I try using a dongle using an Atheros 
>> chipset.  I ordered a NetGear WNA1100 but soon discovered that it won't run 
>> in the Angstrom distribution, which by default doesn't provide the 
>> ath9k_htc driver and associated firmware.  This was really disappointing to 
>> me, since I had already made quite an investment in learning all about 
>> Angstrom.  I was able to bitbake a 
>> versionof the 
>> distribution that included the driver, but was unable to build or 
>> find a version of the firmware that would work in Angstrom.  I have since 
>> given up and switched to Ubuntu, which includes support for this dongle 
>> natively.  My WiFi is now rock solid with this adapter.  
>>
>> A plea to the makers:  please bundle the ath9k_htc driver and associated 
>> firmware  with 
>> the standard Angstrom distribution.
>>
>> t
>> *l;dr:  Install Ubuntu 
>> 
>>  
>> on the Bone (I used the latest raring image 
>> ), buy this dongle 
>> ,
>>  
>> follow these directions 
>> 
>>  
>> to get reliable WiFi.*
>> Thanks to all who attempted to help me - hopefully this post will help 
>> others.  
>>
>>

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Re: [beagleboard] Re: setting up VNC for ubuntu

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If I am not mistaken it needs to be port 5900.

-Wil
On Nov 22, 2013 1:06 PM, "Bill Dussault"  wrote:

> I tried with port 22 nothing worked ...hmmm
>
> Thanks
>
> On Friday, November 22, 2013 12:29:40 PM UTC-6, Bill Dussault wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to set up VNC from a WIn7 PC into the BBB I am running ubuntu
>> on the BBB.
>>
>> on the terminal:
>>
>>
>> ubuntu@arm:~$ sudo apt-get install x11vnc vnc-java
>>
>> ubuntu@arm:~$ x11vnc -storepasswd  (wrote my password)
>>
>> ubuntu@arm:~$ x11vnc -foreever -usepw
>> Password written to: /home/ubuntu/.vnc/passwd
>> 22/11/2013 18:22:19 x11vnc version: 0.9.13 lastmod: 2011-08-10  pid: 1926
>> 22/11/2013 18:22:19 XOpenDisplay("") failed.
>> 22/11/2013 18:22:19 Trying again with XAUTHLOCALHOSTNAME=localhost ...
>> 22/11/2013 18:22:19
>> 22/11/2013 18:22:19 *** XOpenDisplay failed. No -display or DISPLAY.
>> 22/11/2013 18:22:19 *** Trying ":0" in 4 seconds.  Press Ctrl-C to abort.
>> 22/11/2013 18:22:19 *** 1 2 3 4
>> 22/11/2013 18:22:23 XOpenDisplay(":0") failed.
>> 22/11/2013 18:22:23 Trying again with XAUTHLOCALHOSTNAME=localhost ...
>> 22/11/2013 18:22:23 XOpenDisplay(":0") failed.
>> 22/11/2013 18:22:23 Trying again with unset XAUTHLOCALHOSTNAME ...
>> 22/11/2013 18:22:23
>>
>> 22/11/2013 18:22:23 ***
>> 22/11/2013 18:22:23 *** XOpenDisplay failed (:0)
>>
>> *** x11vnc was unable to open the X DISPLAY: ":0", it cannot continue.
>> *** There may be "Xlib:" error messages above with details about the
>> failure.
>>
>> Some tips and guidelines:
>>
>> ** An X server (the one you wish to view) must be running before x11vnc is
>>started: x11vnc does not start the X server.  (however, see the -create
>>option if that is what you really want).
>>
>> ** You must use -display , -OR- set and export your $DISPLAY
>>environment variable to refer to the display of the desired X server.
>>  - Usually the display is simply ":0" (in fact x11vnc uses this if you
>> forget
>>to specify it), but in some multi-user situations it could be ":1",
>> ":2",
>>or even ":137".  Ask your administrator or a guru if you are having
>>difficulty determining what your X DISPLAY is.
>>
>> ** Next, you need to have sufficient permissions (Xauthority)
>>to connect to the X DISPLAY.   Here are some Tips:
>>
>>  - Often, you just need to run x11vnc as the user logged into the X
>> session.
>>So make sure to be that user when you type x11vnc.
>>  - Being root is usually not enough because the incorrect MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE
>>file may be accessed.  The cookie file contains the secret key that
>>allows x11vnc to connect to the desired X DISPLAY.
>>  - You can explicitly indicate which MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE file should be used
>>by the -auth option, e.g.:
>>x11vnc -auth /home/someuser/.Xauthority -display :0
>>x11vnc -auth /tmp/.gdmzndVlR -display :0
>>you must have read permission for the auth file.
>>See also '-auth guess' and '-findauth' discussed below.
>>
>> ** If NO ONE is logged into an X session yet, but there is a greeter login
>>program like "gdm", "kdm", "xdm", or "dtlogin" running, you will need
>>to find and use the raw display manager MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE file.
>>Some examples for various display managers:
>>
>>  gdm: -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth
>>   -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth
>>  kdm: -auth /var/lib/kdm/A:0-crWk72
>>   -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-crWk72
>>  xdm: -auth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-XQvaJk
>>  dtlogin: -auth /var/dt/A:0-UgaaXa
>>
>>Sometimes the command "ps aux | grep auth" can reveal the file
>> location.
>>
>>Starting with x11vnc 0.9.9 you can have it try to guess by using:
>>
>>   -auth guess
>>
>>(see also the x11vnc -findauth option.)
>>
>>Only root will have read permission for the file, and so x11vnc must
>> be run
>>as root (or copy it).  The random characters in the filenames will of
>> course
>>change and the directory the cookie file resides in is system
>> dependent.
>>
>>
>> On the Windows PC I installed RealVNC and open it to 192.168.7.2 and it
>> keeps giving me "Connection Refused 10061"
>>
>> Cannot find a good solution online.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
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Re: [beagleboard] Set root password back to empty [beaglebone black]

[Wilfredo Nieves]

Type "passwd -d" to delete the password.
On Nov 26, 2013 6:12 PM, "André Prado"  wrote:

> And hwo can i do it ?:)
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Don deJuan wrote:
>
>> On 11/26/2013 04:09 PM, André Prado wrote:
>> > Hello, i have a beaglebone black and i've changed the root password.
>> > I bought a touchscreen lcd'4 cape but i can't login with it, no
>> > virtual keyboard appears when i click on the login "password" field.
>> >
>> > I want to set the root password back to empty, i tried via ssh to do
>> > "passwd" and just type enter twice but it didn't work out, any tips
>> > for me to be able to login to my bbb with the cape ?:)
>> >
>> > This is the cape i've
>> > bought:
>> http://www.4dsystems.com.au/product/22/125/Beagle_Bone_LCD_Capes/4DCAPE-43/
>> >
>> >
>> >
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Re: [beagleboard] Set root password back to empty [beaglebone black]

[Wilfredo Nieves]

The command is actually
passwd -d root

-Wil
On Nov 26, 2013 8:58 PM, "Wilfredo Nieves"  wrote:

> Type "passwd -d" to delete the password.
> On Nov 26, 2013 6:12 PM, "André Prado"  wrote:
>
>> And hwo can i do it ?:)
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Don deJuan wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/26/2013 04:09 PM, André Prado wrote:
>>> > Hello, i have a beaglebone black and i've changed the root password.
>>> > I bought a touchscreen lcd'4 cape but i can't login with it, no
>>> > virtual keyboard appears when i click on the login "password" field.
>>> >
>>> > I want to set the root password back to empty, i tried via ssh to do
>>> > "passwd" and just type enter twice but it didn't work out, any tips
>>> > for me to be able to login to my bbb with the cape ?:)
>>> >
>>> > This is the cape i've
>>> > bought:
>>> http://www.4dsystems.com.au/product/22/125/Beagle_Bone_LCD_Capes/4DCAPE-43/
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
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>>> blank password.
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Re: [beagleboard] Wifi help on latest BBB

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Hi Stuart,

Not sure if this will help you but it did work for me and my wifi is very
reliable. Have not lost connection and i can run a full opkg upgrade
without getting any errors or dropped connections.

With ethernet connected run the following in the terminal.

cd to a folder that would be easy to remember

opkg update
opkg download dhcp-client networkmanager network-manager-applet
wireless-tools wpa-supplicant
You will want to download these because networkmanager wont install with
connman installed and
once you remove connman you will lose all network connections.

opkg remove connman --force-removal-of-dependent-packages
opkg remove connman (you may have to do --force-remove can't recall off the
top of my head)

Please note that you will want to go to the folder that you downloaded the
packages to and remove the version numbers from the file names.

opkg install /path/to/folder/wpa-supplicant.ipk
opkg install /path/to/folder/wireless-tools.ipk
opkg install /path/to/folder/dhcp-client.ipk
opkg install /path/to/folder/networkmanager.ipk
opkg install /path/to/folder/network-manager-applet.ipk
reboot

That should install network manager and its required packages.
Can't recall if wireless-tools is required but it doesn't hurt to have it.

After the reboot you should have a different icon where the connman one was
on the top right.
Click on icon, select wireless network and enter your passphrase and you
should be good to go.

If you run into any problems let me know.
Hope this helps.


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Stuart Williams wrote:

> I am pulling my hair out. I have a BBB with a dlink dwa 121 and for the
> life of me I cannot get it to connect to my wifi. I've wiped and
> reinstalled it back to the latest stable angstrom image.
>
> My wifi is wpa2 personal airport express a/b/g/n  I can get the board
> recognized but I can never connect.  My wifi.config security is not
> working. Maybe EPA-psi was not the right security setting? I could try to
> connect and it would always fail. Maybe I did too many different installs?
>
> Can anyone point me towards a reliable step by step install?  Should I try
> a diff Linux?  I'm only using some python and the python io to controls
> couple motors and connect to the internet.
>
> Anything you can tell me will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers
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Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBone Black Availability

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I know that Radio Shack had some a few days ago but you may want hold off
on buying one from them because they are asking $89.99 for what seems to be
a really bare kit.

-Wil
On Dec 18, 2013 7:30 AM, "Charles Steinkuehler" 
wrote:

> Wow!  Well congratulations to beagleboard.org!
>
> I knew you were building these in pretty good volume, so I was surprised
> to see everyone out of stock at the same time.  Sounds like someone must
> have wanted a *LOT* of boards.  Perhaps the guy with the red hat, or
> maybe someone figured out how to use the GPU to do bitcoin mining?  :)
>
> On 12/18/2013 7:48 AM, Gerald Coley wrote:
> > Someone or a bunch of someones, came in and bought up everything out
> there.
> > We are shipping 3,000 boards a week. As you can see, there still is not
> > stock. You might try Newark, I saw they may have some stock, but can't
> say
> > how accurate that is.
> >
> > And yes, all our distributors reported a big uptick in demand.
> > Unfortunately they did not plan for such an event. There is no history to
> > fall back on so planning is hard to do.
> >
> > Gerald
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Charles Steinkuehler <
> > char...@steinkuehler.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I went to order a couple more BeagleBone Blacks, but I can't seem to
> >> find any!  Lots of folks show them expected back in stock sometime in
> >> January, but I couldn't find any to actually buy.
> >>
> >> Does anyone know of a US supplier with actual stock?
> >>
> >> Did the BBB somehow become the "hot" must-have Christmas toy and I
> >> didn't notice?  :)
> >>
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[beagleboard] Re: Which build would you recommend?

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Hi Kurt,

If you use a large uSD and boot from it you can use the instuctions at 
http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:Expanding_File_System_Partition_On_A_microSD to 
resize your rootfs to use the remainder of the space. As for the OS not 
really sure, i was using Angstrom from day one up until about two days ago 
when i switched to Debian Wheezy. I had angstrom all set up the way i 
wanted it but was just trying Debian and was really pleased at how easy it 
was to get set up how i wanted it and my wifi adapter worked right out of 
the box.
Some one else might be able to guide you better since i am currently not 
working with any hardware, i can not suggest What OS to use. 

-Wil

On Thursday, January 2, 2014 2:29:41 PM UTC-7, KurtE wrote:
>
> It has been awhile since I have done much with my BBBk.  Over the last 
> several months I have been playing around with some other boards such as 
> the Odroid U2 (have a U3 on order) as well as an Intel NUC.  But am 
> thinking about moving the BBBk that I was starting to use on a Rover to a 
> 4DOF hexapod. Should be straight forward as I have 2 RPIs running my 
> Phoenix port.  One is on a 3DOF Lynxmotion T-Hex and another is on a 
> Trossen PhantomX Hexapod.   But I have not tested my 4dof support in the 
> port, so am thinking of trying my Lynxmotion 4DOF round hex out on the BBBk.
>
> My question is, which distribution/build would you recommend at this 
> point.  I believe the emmc has an Angstrom build dated back to 2013 06 20. 
> I know around this time I was having issues that if you do something like 
> an apt-get update/upgrade at times it would corrupt the image.  
>
> I am not using any shields (other than the prototype shield).  I have been 
> using a few of the usarts for XBee and before to talk to motor controller.  
> But for Hex will probably want to talk to SSC-32 (Atmega chip) so I will 
> either use USB to serial converter or probably would need to use a TTL 
> level shifter.
>
> So again would like to know if you would recommend sticking with Angstrom 
> on the EMMC or go to a different distribution?  Do any others fit on the 
> EMMC?  
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Kurt
>
> P.S - Do wish the BBBk came with a larger 4 or 8 gb emmc.  (I have an 16 
> on ODroid, 128 on NUC)  Would have easily paid more for it
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Re: [beagleboard] Re: VNC on BBB from the very beginning (possible)?

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Hi,

It sounds like you are using incorrect port number. If you can get a
terminal and run VNC from there it will tell you what port it is on towards
the end of the output. Or you can sequentially increase port number by one
until you find the correct port.
On Feb 18, 2014 6:31 PM, "Abdul-Rauf Mujahid" 
wrote:

> Dear sir, i have tried all the above solutions but when i use vncviewer
> (using vncviewer 192.168.7.2:5900), I get the following error
>
> vncviewer: ConnectToTcpAddr: connect: Connection refused
> Unable to connect to VNC server
>
> please help. i have tried rebooting many times and i have also execute
> *x11vnc -bg -o %HOME/.x11vnc.log.%VNCDISPLAY -auth
> /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm*/database -display :0 - forever - nopw on BBB*.
> I am using kali linux.
>
> On Monday, May 20, 2013 2:23:38 PM UTC-4, Rob Weijers wrote:
>>
>> You still have to activate the command after each reboot of the BBB.
>> To avoid this store the already used command:
>>
>> *x11vnc -bg -o %HOME/.x11vnc.log.%VNCDISPLAY -auth
>> /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm*/database -display :0 - forever - nopw*
>>
>> *Into a file e.g. x11vncremote.sh. *Don't forget to change the file's
>> permission to allow execution.* And add the file as a command to the
>> startup (on the desktop: System->preferences->Statup Applications. *
>> *Now you can connect anytime you want to the BBB without the need for
>> Gate one.*
>>
>> *I already had this running, but it did not allow me to restart once the
>> connection was closed. Thanks to Wilfredo this is solved. *
>>
>> *Rob.*
>>
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Re: [beagleboard] Re: Angstrom passwords

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If you do Ctrl + Alt + F1 it will give you a console at the login screen
and IIRC "gdm.service restart" will bring the login screen back up.

-Wil
On Mar 17, 2014 4:22 PM, "New Guy, Old Man" 
wrote:

> I upgraded from the command line on emmc using update / upgrade and was
> rewarded with a splash screen i cant get past...as above. I updated on
> March 17, 2014.
>
> I have tried all the things on this page so far...1) cant get in to ssh
> (usb) because when i try it says that connection has been closed by remote,
> 2) the Cloud9 solution returns that it failed to download.
>
> I am new to linux command line, its honestly why i bought this thing...to
> learn. right now i have a $65.00 paperweight with a cool splash screen but
> cant get beyond the password.
>
> Why isnt there a generic password set on update as with other linux
> distros to avoid threads like this?
>
> Forgive my newness i really am trying and not being lazy here...I have
> been all over the internet and I see what you have here echoed, but its not
> working for me. additional help would be appreciated.
>
> On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 7:46:46 PM UTC-5, camero...@gmail.comwrote:
>>
>> The best thing to me about BeagleBone Black is its None.js server that is
>> running all the time. You can leverage this to run commands even when you
>> can't SSH. I ran into your same issue after I did an opkg upgrade. I solved
>> by creating a js file in could9 with the below script. Just run from could
>> 9 and it will execute commands on your BBB!
>>
>> // http://nodejs.org/api.html#_child_processes
>> var sys = require('sys');
>> var exec = require('child_process').exec;
>> var child;
>>
>> // executes `pwd`
>> var command = "opkg install --force-reinstall
>> angstrom-gdm-autologin-hack";
>> child = exec(command, function (error, stdout, stderr) {
>>   sys.print('stdout: ' + stdout);
>>   sys.print('stderr: ' + stderr);
>>   if (error !== null) {
>> console.log('exec error: ' + error);
>>   }
>> });
>>
>> On Thursday, September 12, 2013 8:19:27 AM UTC-5, Gabriel L wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm new to the Beaglebone Black but didn't have problems trying out
>>> several OS's.
>>> As Ubuntu was too slow for my taste I switched back to Angstrom. After
>>> loading the latest img to eMMC, several days in a row I could do
>>> update/upgrade without a problem until the Angstrom logo appeared. The
>>> login procedure was changed drastically as the automatic login was gone and
>>> replaced by the choice 'mpd', 'xuser' and 'Other'. As other I tried 'root'
>>> but nothing worked. I could not login. I couldn't find the correct
>>> passwords anywhere.  Can someone help?
>>> Thanks.
>>>
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Re: [beagleboard] Re: Angstrom passwords

[Wilfredo Nieves]

Also run
"opkg install --force-reinstall angstrom-gdm-autologin-hack" and it will
fix the auto login issue. But i think you have to reboot for it to take
effect. Note that I just copied and pasted right form the post you replied
to.

-Wil
On Mar 17, 2014 7:04 PM, "Wilfredo Nieves"  wrote:

> If you do Ctrl + Alt + F1 it will give you a console at the login screen
> and IIRC "gdm.service restart" will bring the login screen back up.
>
> -Wil
> On Mar 17, 2014 4:22 PM, "New Guy, Old Man" 
> wrote:
>
>> I upgraded from the command line on emmc using update / upgrade and was
>> rewarded with a splash screen i cant get past...as above. I updated on
>> March 17, 2014.
>>
>> I have tried all the things on this page so far...1) cant get in to ssh
>> (usb) because when i try it says that connection has been closed by remote,
>> 2) the Cloud9 solution returns that it failed to download.
>>
>> I am new to linux command line, its honestly why i bought this thing...to
>> learn. right now i have a $65.00 paperweight with a cool splash screen but
>> cant get beyond the password.
>>
>> Why isnt there a generic password set on update as with other linux
>> distros to avoid threads like this?
>>
>> Forgive my newness i really am trying and not being lazy here...I have
>> been all over the internet and I see what you have here echoed, but its not
>> working for me. additional help would be appreciated.
>>
>> On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 7:46:46 PM UTC-5, camero...@gmail.comwrote:
>>>
>>> The best thing to me about BeagleBone Black is its None.js server that
>>> is running all the time. You can leverage this to run commands even when
>>> you can't SSH. I ran into your same issue after I did an opkg upgrade. I
>>> solved by creating a js file in could9 with the below script. Just run from
>>> could 9 and it will execute commands on your BBB!
>>>
>>> // http://nodejs.org/api.html#_child_processes
>>> var sys = require('sys');
>>> var exec = require('child_process').exec;
>>> var child;
>>>
>>> // executes `pwd`
>>> var command = "opkg install --force-reinstall
>>> angstrom-gdm-autologin-hack";
>>> child = exec(command, function (error, stdout, stderr) {
>>>   sys.print('stdout: ' + stdout);
>>>   sys.print('stderr: ' + stderr);
>>>   if (error !== null) {
>>> console.log('exec error: ' + error);
>>>   }
>>> });
>>>
>>> On Thursday, September 12, 2013 8:19:27 AM UTC-5, Gabriel L wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I'm new to the Beaglebone Black but didn't have problems trying out
>>>> several OS's.
>>>> As Ubuntu was too slow for my taste I switched back to Angstrom. After
>>>> loading the latest img to eMMC, several days in a row I could do
>>>> update/upgrade without a problem until the Angstrom logo appeared. The
>>>> login procedure was changed drastically as the automatic login was gone and
>>>> replaced by the choice 'mpd', 'xuser' and 'Other'. As other I tried 'root'
>>>> but nothing worked. I could not login. I couldn't find the correct
>>>> passwords anywhere.  Can someone help?
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
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Re: [beagleboard] BBB Failes to flash

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You can not just place the .img file on the sd card. You have to write the
file using something like win32diskimager. Which makes the image boot able.

-Wil
On Mar 20, 2014 9:14 AM, "Rafael Fiebig-Bindner" 
wrote:

> Hi everyone out there,
>
> I wanted to flash my BBB with a new Angstrom Image, since I messed up a
> little with the old operating system, but it refuses. I insert the SD card
> with the .img file, press the isolated button (boot/or flash button or
> whatever it is called), reconnect to power, the LEDs start to glow, after
> the third glows it all stops. 3 LEDs glowing and nothing. Is there any
> explanation for this, or even any idea how to fix it?
> Btw: the old operating system still functions like I never intended to get
> rid of it.
>
> Best regards
> Rafael Fiebig-Bindner
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Re: [beagleboard] Re: BBB Failes to flash

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No problem.

-Wil
On Mar 24, 2014 7:09 AM, "Rafael Fiebig-Bindner" 
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> Thanks Wilfredo, works fine now.
>>
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Re: [beagleboard] How to mount the microsd with exec permissions?

[Wilfredo Nieves]

You need to change to file system type to something other than fat.

-Wil
On Mar 28, 2014 3:50 AM, "Erwin Ried"  wrote:

> Hello in the last debian version for the bbb how do I mount the microsd
> with exec permissions?
>
> I tried:
> root@beaglebone:/media/E868-3288/mono# mount -t vfat -o
> remount,rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1002,fmask=0022,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks,exec
> /dev/mmcblk0 /media/E868-3288/
> root@beaglebone:/media/E868-3288/mono#
>
> And it does not display any error, but it does not work, I can't change
> permissions of the files.
>
> Thanks!
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Re: [beagleboard] Re: Windows 8 (64bit) driver install problems

[Wilfredo Nieves]

Try method #2 Here 

Just be warned that it disables Signature enforcement completely.
To re-enable it run last two commands and restart.


On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 2:09 AM,  wrote:

>
> I tried several times, but no result
>
>
> On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 7:46:25 AM UTC+3, Erwin Ried wrote:
>>
>> Making windows accept unsigned drivers does work. You are probably not
>> following the directions, it is quite cumbersome how MS made this "safe
>> mode" in Win 8, but at least you have to follow the steps only once.
>>
>> On Monday, March 31, 2014 10:04:09 AM UTC-3, edgars@gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>> I tried both methods to solve the problem, but none of them worked
>>>
>>> On Thursday, February 27, 2014 9:47:43 AM UTC+2, aravin...@gmail.comwrote:

 Thanks Piyush.
 It helped.

 On Tuesday, April 30, 2013 3:42:04 AM UTC+5:30, Piyush Agarwal wrote:
>
> Hi Kenny,
>
> As Jason noted the installer is unsigned, this means you need to
> restart Windows 8 in the mode where it allows you to install unsigned
> drivers.
>
> Here's a quick step-by-step guide:
>
> 1. Press win+c on the keyboard to bring up the charms side bar (or
> move mouse to right top corner of the screen)
>
> 2. Click the Settings button.
>
> 3. Click the Change PC Settings at the bottom of the sidebar.
>
> 4. On screen that shows up, select the General option from the sidebar
> then scroll down the page that appears.
>
> 5. Click the Restart now button under the Advanced startup section.
>
> 6. You will momentarily see the restarting screen, then it will switch
> to a blue screen titled "Choose an option"
>
> 7. Click the Troubleshoot button.
>
> 8. Click Advanced options.
>
> 9. Click Startup Settings
>
> 10. Click Restart
>
> 11. You should then see a Startup Settings screen after your computer
> reboots.
>
> 12. Press 7 or F7 on your keyboard to Disable driver signature
> enforcement
>
> 13. Now Windows 8 will continue starting up.
>
> 14. Log-in as normal, and then run BONE_D64.exe again
>
> 15. Now you should see 4 warning dialogs about "unsigned driver
> installation", click OK for all of them.
>
> Then you should be good to go!
>
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Piyush
>
> On Sunday, April 28, 2013 11:05:53 AM UTC-4, Kenny Lindberg wrote:
>>
>> Trying to install software for my Beaglebone Black on Win8-64 and
>> dpinst.exe fails.
>> OSX seems to work, so I don't think it's a hardware issue.
>>
>> Is there a work around?
>>
>> Kenny
>>
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Re: [beagleboard] Re: Angstrom passwords

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No problem
On May 2, 2014 7:01 AM, "New Guy, Old Man"  wrote:

> Wil, worked great!!! Thanks for your help!!!
>
> Andrew
>
> On Monday, March 17, 2014 8:04:57 PM UTC-4, Wilfredo Nieves wrote:
>
>> If you do Ctrl + Alt + F1 it will give you a console at the login screen
>> and IIRC "gdm.service restart" will bring the login screen back up.
>>
>> -Wil
>> On Mar 17, 2014 4:22 PM, "New Guy, Old Man"  wrote:
>>
>>> I upgraded from the command line on emmc using update / upgrade and was
>>> rewarded with a splash screen i cant get past...as above. I updated on
>>> March 17, 2014.
>>>
>>> I have tried all the things on this page so far...1) cant get in to ssh
>>> (usb) because when i try it says that connection has been closed by remote,
>>> 2) the Cloud9 solution returns that it failed to download.
>>>
>>> I am new to linux command line, its honestly why i bought this
>>> thing...to learn. right now i have a $65.00 paperweight with a cool splash
>>> screen but cant get beyond the password.
>>>
>>> Why isnt there a generic password set on update as with other linux
>>> distros to avoid threads like this?
>>>
>>> Forgive my newness i really am trying and not being lazy here...I have
>>> been all over the internet and I see what you have here echoed, but its not
>>> working for me. additional help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 7:46:46 PM UTC-5, camero...@gmail.comwrote:
>>>>
>>>> The best thing to me about BeagleBone Black is its None.js server that
>>>> is running all the time. You can leverage this to run commands even when
>>>> you can't SSH. I ran into your same issue after I did an opkg upgrade. I
>>>> solved by creating a js file in could9 with the below script. Just run from
>>>> could 9 and it will execute commands on your BBB!
>>>>
>>>> // http://nodejs.org/api.html#_child_processes
>>>> var sys = require('sys');
>>>> var exec = require('child_process').exec;
>>>> var child;
>>>>
>>>> // executes `pwd`
>>>> var command = "opkg install --force-reinstall
>>>> angstrom-gdm-autologin-hack";
>>>> child = exec(command, function (error, stdout, stderr) {
>>>>   sys.print('stdout: ' + stdout);
>>>>   sys.print('stderr: ' + stderr);
>>>>   if (error !== null) {
>>>> console.log('exec error: ' + error);
>>>>   }
>>>> });
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, September 12, 2013 8:19:27 AM UTC-5, Gabriel L wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I'm new to the Beaglebone Black but didn't have problems trying out
>>>>> several OS's.
>>>>> As Ubuntu was too slow for my taste I switched back to Angstrom. After
>>>>> loading the latest img to eMMC, several days in a row I could do
>>>>> update/upgrade without a problem until the Angstrom logo appeared. The
>>>>> login procedure was changed drastically as the automatic login was gone 
>>>>> and
>>>>> replaced by the choice 'mpd', 'xuser' and 'Other'. As other I tried 'root'
>>>>> but nothing worked. I could not login. I couldn't find the correct
>>>>> passwords anywhere.  Can someone help?
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
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Re: [beagleboard] Re: BeagleBone Black web server

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In all honesty I don't think you have to disable the default web server. A
few months back I picked up a my book live nas and cracked it open to find
that the hardware was similar to BBB. So I decided to see if I could do
something similar with the BBB and I got it working but I don't remember
having to disable the default web server. I may be wrong though as I did
not take notes on the procedure because I figured it was a one time deal
and did it just to see if it could be done. Any ways all I remember doing
was following a guide to install open cloud on debian. So you may want to
look at some of those guides and see if you can get your web server
working.
On Jun 17, 2014 9:05 AM, "Michael Thompson" 
wrote:

> Hi William, I have actually been reading about how to do a netinstall all
> morning. Never a better time than now to learn something useful, right? I
> think I may give this a go in the next few days. Thanks for the advice :)
>
> On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 8:44:50 AM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote:
>
>> Micheal,
>>
>> The best solution IMHO would be to start with a minimal or bare
>> filesystem, and install *only* the packages that you need. But this means
>> you're going to have to take time and learn how to do so. Using these
>> instructions: http://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black You
>> would skip anything related to compiling / copying over the kernel or
>> u-boot and do something like the following
>>  . . .
>>
>> 1) remove the rootfs partition on the sdcard.
>> 2) create a new partition on the sdcard.
>> 3) extract the barefs rootfs image onto this new partition.
>> 4) follow the directions for modifying configuration file on the newly
>> extracted rootfs so Debian knows how to behave.
>> 5) once logged into the new system su to root, and apt-get install what
>> you need.
>>
>> *NOW* do keep in mind it is rather early for me ( have not had my morning
>> coffee so to speak ), and I have not personally tested, or given this much
>> thought aside from the occasional musing. So I may not have remembered
>> *EVERYTHING*. However this is the gist of how to achieve what I propose.
>>
>> Eventually though, you're going to have to get your hands dirty and learn
>> this stuff. Maybe not for this project, but perhaps for another. You may as
>> well start learning now.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Michael Thompson > > wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, that's why I am going to retry it later today. I followed the last
>>> instructions before I left for work and didn't keep notes on which steps
>>> failed and why. I am going to start from a fresh install this afternoon and
>>> keep track of what happens so that I will be able to give more detail
>>> instead of just posting a dejected "Nothing works!!" reply. Sorry for being
>>> whiney, I'm just getting frustrated :(
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 8:19:52 AM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote:
>>>
 It might be helpful if you told us why it does not work.


 On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Michael Thompson <
 thompsonm...@gmail.com> wrote:

> This didn't work either. I am losing all hope that I will ever get
> this thing to work. I guess I will try again later today and maybe some
> magic will happen.
>
> On Monday, June 16, 2014 9:54:22 PM UTC-7, crazybucket wrote:
>
>> You do use the /var/www directory for apache. The problem, as someone
>> else mentioned, is that there is another webserver running on it out of 
>> the
>> box, so you need to disable it and the associated mess with systemctl:
>>
>> systemctl disable cloud9.service
>> systemctl disable gateone.service
>> systemctl disable bonescript.service
>> systemctl disable bonescript.socket
>> systemctl disable bonescript-autorun.service
>> systemctl disable avahi-daemon.service
>> systemctl disable gdm.service
>> systemctl disable mpd.service
>>
>>
>> Now we can use the beaglebone more like a headless linux machine.
>> Last time I played with it, apache was already installed (!) but running 
>> on
>> an alternate port. So lets fix that - open /etc/apache2/ports.conf and
>> change this:
>>
>> NameVirtualHost *:8080
>> Listen 8080
>>
>> to this:
>>
>> NameVirtualHost *:80
>> Listen 80
>>
>>
>> Save it and restart apache:
>>
>> apachectl graceful
>>
>>
>> Then you should see the "It works!" page by navigating to the
>> beaglebone's IP address. Apache runs just fine on the beaglebone - much
>> faster than the pentium II that I used to to learned linux on...
>>
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, June 7, 2014 12:07:15 AM UTC-5, Michael Thompson wrote:
>>>
>>> I flashed Debian to the eMMC and it seems to be working fine. My
>>> plan is to host a small web page using Apache. I installed Apache and 
>>> using
>>> the IP address the BeagleBone 101 loads fine from outside my network.
>>

Re: [beagleboard] Re: BeagleBone Black web server

[Wilfredo Nieves]

Correction it was OwnCloud not open cloud.
On Jun 17, 2014 4:45 PM, "Wilfredo Nieves"  wrote:

> In all honesty I don't think you have to disable the default web server. A
> few months back I picked up a my book live nas and cracked it open to find
> that the hardware was similar to BBB. So I decided to see if I could do
> something similar with the BBB and I got it working but I don't remember
> having to disable the default web server. I may be wrong though as I did
> not take notes on the procedure because I figured it was a one time deal
> and did it just to see if it could be done. Any ways all I remember doing
> was following a guide to install open cloud on debian. So you may want to
> look at some of those guides and see if you can get your web server
> working.
> On Jun 17, 2014 9:05 AM, "Michael Thompson" 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi William, I have actually been reading about how to do a netinstall all
>> morning. Never a better time than now to learn something useful, right? I
>> think I may give this a go in the next few days. Thanks for the advice :)
>>
>> On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 8:44:50 AM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote:
>>
>>> Micheal,
>>>
>>> The best solution IMHO would be to start with a minimal or bare
>>> filesystem, and install *only* the packages that you need. But this means
>>> you're going to have to take time and learn how to do so. Using these
>>> instructions: http://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black You
>>> would skip anything related to compiling / copying over the kernel or
>>> u-boot and do something like the following
>>>  . . .
>>>
>>> 1) remove the rootfs partition on the sdcard.
>>> 2) create a new partition on the sdcard.
>>> 3) extract the barefs rootfs image onto this new partition.
>>> 4) follow the directions for modifying configuration file on the newly
>>> extracted rootfs so Debian knows how to behave.
>>> 5) once logged into the new system su to root, and apt-get install what
>>> you need.
>>>
>>> *NOW* do keep in mind it is rather early for me ( have not had my
>>> morning coffee so to speak ), and I have not personally tested, or given
>>> this much thought aside from the occasional musing. So I may not have
>>> remembered *EVERYTHING*. However this is the gist of how to achieve what I
>>> propose.
>>>
>>> Eventually though, you're going to have to get your hands dirty and
>>> learn this stuff. Maybe not for this project, but perhaps for another. You
>>> may as well start learning now.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Michael Thompson <
>>> thompsonm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yeah, that's why I am going to retry it later today. I followed the
>>>> last instructions before I left for work and didn't keep notes on which
>>>> steps failed and why. I am going to start from a fresh install this
>>>> afternoon and keep track of what happens so that I will be able to give
>>>> more detail instead of just posting a dejected "Nothing works!!" reply.
>>>> Sorry for being whiney, I'm just getting frustrated :(
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 8:19:52 AM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It might be helpful if you told us why it does not work.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Michael Thompson <
>>>>> thompsonm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This didn't work either. I am losing all hope that I will ever get
>>>>>> this thing to work. I guess I will try again later today and maybe some
>>>>>> magic will happen.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Monday, June 16, 2014 9:54:22 PM UTC-7, crazybucket wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You do use the /var/www directory for apache. The problem, as
>>>>>>> someone else mentioned, is that there is another webserver running on it
>>>>>>> out of the box, so you need to disable it and the associated mess with
>>>>>>> systemctl:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> systemctl disable cloud9.service
>>>>>>> systemctl disable gateone.service
>>>>>>> systemctl disable bonescript.service
>>>>>>> systemctl disable bonescript.socket
>>>>>>> systemctl disable bonescript-autorun.service
>>&g