[beagleboard] Using Qemu with beaglebone images

2020-08-07 Thread Stephane Charette
I'd like to use Qemu to boot a a Beaglebone ARM image on my normal X86-64 desktop. I figure this will let me develop and debug the software I need without having to worry about the small disk space on the eMMC. The software I develop can then be rsync'd to the beaglebone once everything is wor

[beagleboard] Re: getting started with beaglebone black

2018-02-19 Thread Stephane Charette
> > Also interface a 20x4 LCD display via the GPIO ports. > I had some fun and success in the past getting LCD screens working on my Beaglebones. First up were some approximately 1" square (OLED096 and OLED112) Grove twigs that connected via I2C. https://www.ccoderun.ca/sg++/api/classSG_1_1Co

[beagleboard] Re: BeagleBoard Black C++ Library

2018-02-19 Thread Stephane Charette
> > Is there any recommended library for working with BBB PWM, GPIO, etc... > I had started building a C++ library a while back: https://www.ccoderun.ca/sg++/api/namespaceSG_1_1BeagleBone.html No guarantees. Once I got enough of it working for my needs, some things were intentionally left unf

[beagleboard] Re: Extracting Beaglebone Image to be developed into a VM

2018-02-14 Thread Stephane Charette
> > [...] I want to be able to take the extracted image and set up a virtual > machine for remote testing of certain software packages. > What VM software do you plan on using that emulates ARM? Stephane -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message

[beagleboard] Re: How to use BBB watchdog timer - doesn't work as I expected

2018-01-22 Thread Stephane Charette
May want to take a look here: https://www.ccoderun.ca/sg++/api/classSG_1_1BeagleBone_1_1Watchdog.html Stéphane On Sunday, January 21, 2018 at 6:48:45 AM UTC-8, Chris Green wrote: > > I am trying to use the BBB watchdog at /dev/watchdog but it's not > working quite as I expected. > > Does one

Re: [beagleboard] Bluetooth on BBBW and BBGW

2017-11-13 Thread Stephane Charette
> > > Not familiar with Bluetooth. I own several BBBW and BBGW devices. Is > there > > a way to interconnect the devices using Bluetooth? > ... Something like: > > http://bluez.sourceforge.net/contrib/HOWTO-PAN Thanks, Robert, I will try that today. Meanwhile, I'm curious to know, are t

[beagleboard] Bluetooth on BBBW and BBGW

2017-11-13 Thread Stephane Charette
Not familiar with Bluetooth. I own several BBBW and BBGW devices. Is there a way to interconnect the devices using Bluetooth? What would that mean -- does Bluetooth provide an IP address? Is there an interface I can access from bash scripts? An API from C/C++? Thanks for pointers in the righ

[beagleboard] did we change /proc/device-tree/compatible?

2017-10-09 Thread Stephane Charette
In the past, I used to identify the type of device by reading the file /proc/device-tree/compatible. For example, see this: > hexdump -C /proc/device-tree/compatible 74 69 2c 61 6d 33 33 35 78 2d 62 6f 6e 65 2d 67 |ti, am335x-bone-g| 0010 72 65 65 6e 00 74 69 2c 61 6d 33 33 35

[beagleboard] Re: can not able to ping from beagle bone black to PC

2017-05-06 Thread Stephane Charette
On Friday, May 5, 2017 at 7:57:43 AM UTC-7, kiran nayak wrote: > > Hello, > Sorry if it is too basic, but i want a urgent help, i am stuck after > trying everything > > I am not able to ping back from BBB to host ( host to BBB works ), using > Ethernet over usb > host is windows-7 PC > > That i

[beagleboard] EPS (virtual network) for BeagleBone

2017-04-29 Thread Stephane Charette
I have a large number of Beaglebone (black, green, green wireless) deployed at various customer locations, and needed to stay in touch with each of these devices. For example, to continue to update the software, make sure they're running correctly, etc. So I compiled EPS Conduits for Beaglebon

Re: [beagleboard] Tips on using a BBGW in a consumer product

2017-04-21 Thread Stephane Charette
> > There is also no functional watchdog on this board. I do believe there is > one included on the processor, but it's not functional for whatever reason > I no longer remember. This means, you need to add a watchdog if you're > serious about your product. > Sorry for the resurrection. Post

[beagleboard] Re: /etc/machine-id is not unique!

2017-04-14 Thread Stephane Charette
> > What is the correct way to generate a new machine-id and/or a D-Bus > machine ID? > I think I figured it out. Robert, is this something that should be part of an image? Either deleting the files from the image so new ones are auto-generated, or ensuring unique IDs are created? Here is

[beagleboard] /etc/machine-id is not unique!

2017-04-14 Thread Stephane Charette
I have some software that uses the unique /etc/machine-id as a key. But I just noticed tonight that the machine-id is exactly the same on all beaglebones! If this has been fixed recently, let me know. The builds I'm using are from January 2017, though I don't recall exactly when. All of the

Re: [beagleboard] BBBL?

2017-01-14 Thread Stephane Charette
Anyone have a BBBL to run the following and email (or post) the output? hexdump -C /proc/device-tree/model > hexdump -C /proc/device-tree/compatible > Stéphane -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group

[beagleboard] Re: SD Card Image for BBBW

2017-01-14 Thread Stephane Charette
On Saturday, January 14, 2017 at 9:52:17 AM UTC-8, tdlivings wrote: > > Is there an SD Card image for BBBW similar to the Dec 5 or 18 testing > images that have the wireless > changes for connecting to home wireless network using connman . I tried > 2017-01-08 last night and it did not boot. >

[beagleboard] CCR Tools for BeagleBone

2017-01-14 Thread Stephane Charette
There are a number of things I do to my BeagleBone devices when setting them up for different projects. To make it easier and more consistent, I created some .deb files that sets things up the way I need. I've now published these .deb files if anyone else wants to make use of them. Documenta

[beagleboard] invert LEDs

2017-01-13 Thread Stephane Charette
I see that usr0 has an entry called "invert": /sys/devices/platform/leds/leds/beaglebone:green:usr0/invert It works as expected, which is nice. But I also noticed the "invert" functionality doesn't exist for usr1, usr2, or usr3. Is that intentional, or is there something missing from usr1, usr

Re: [beagleboard] BBBL?

2017-01-12 Thread Stephane Charette
> > > BBBL=? > > It's for the blue: > http://beagleboard.org/blue > Can someone with a BBBL please run these 2 commands for me and send me the output? Thanks! hexdump -C /proc/device-tree/model hexdump -C /proc/device-tree/compatible Stéphane -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard

[beagleboard] BBBL?

2017-01-11 Thread Stephane Charette
Acronyms: BBB=BeagleBone Black BBG=BeagleBone Green BBGW=BeagleBone Green Wireless BBBW=BeagleBone Black Wireless BBBL=? Seen here: https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-01-11/iot/ Stéphane -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message becaus

[beagleboard] what build to use with BBBW?

2016-12-23 Thread Stephane Charette
What build is recommended for the BBBW? I'm always confused by the naming conventions and the numerous build types available. BeagleBoard on their "latest image" page recommends this one for BBBW: - https://debian.beagleboard.org/images/bone-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-11-06-4gb.img.

[beagleboard] Re: BBBW and X desktop

2016-12-23 Thread Stephane Charette
> > [I'm using] this build: > https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-12-18/lxqt-4gb/BBBW-blank-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-12-18-4gb.img.xz > When the BBBW boots up, I see this message on the serial console: [FAILED] Failed to start Light Display Manager. See 'systemctl status lightd

[beagleboard] BBBW and X desktop

2016-12-21 Thread Stephane Charette
My BBBW was working correctly when I received it a few days ago. Maybe I should I have stopped there. :) Wanting to use the newest build, I downloaded and installed this build: https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-12-18/lxqt-4gb/BBBW-blank-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-12-18-4gb.im

[beagleboard] Re: Connect BBB to VBOX running Ubuntu 14.04.02LTS on Windows 7 Proffesional Host

2016-12-20 Thread Stephane Charette
In the VB window where your guest is running, click on Devices -> USB -> Prolific Technology Inc (or whatever) USB device you want to share to your guest. Once you do that, Ubuntu will "see" the USB connection and automatically create the necessary /dev/ttyUSB0 device. Then you can use any of

[beagleboard] Re: BBBW product image

2016-12-20 Thread Stephane Charette
On Tuesday, December 20, 2016 at 4:13:41 PM UTC-8, Gregg Harrington wrote: > > I have been using the BBB image and haven't installed the BBBW one, > everything works correctly as far as I could tell. I asked in another > thread what the difference was, but didn't get a response. > BBB = BeagleB

[beagleboard] Re: Wireless speed issues?

2016-12-19 Thread Stephane Charette
Do you mean sleep_auth? If so, I've also run an issue with the default value of 2 ("extreme low power"). I place this file on all my BBGW devices: $ *cat /etc/cron.d/wireless * MAILTO="" PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin @reboot root sleep 60 ; echo 0 > /sys/ker

[beagleboard] BBBW product image

2016-12-19 Thread Stephane Charette
I wanted to make a blog post about the BBBW, and needed an image to use. For sanity sake, I recommend that people do not make a Google image search for BBBW at work. Definitely NSFW! Stéphane -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you

[beagleboard] are there other ARMHF repos?

2016-12-18 Thread Stephane Charette
By default when I install a BB with one of the usual RCN builds, the repos as defined in /etc/apt/sources.list are set to the following: deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free deb http://sec

[beagleboard] BBBW and BBBW-NC

2016-12-13 Thread Stephane Charette
What is the difference between these two devices? - BBBW-SC-562-ND - BBBW-SC-562 http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/ghi-electronics-llc/BBBWL-SC-562-ND I'm looking to buy a BeagleBone with both WiFi and HDMI capability. Stéphane -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/

[beagleboard] console output during flasher image installation logged to a file

2016-12-04 Thread Stephane Charette
Robert et al, Idea I had today: Any interest in having the flasher image duplicate stdout/stderr and tee it to a log file on the uSD card? That way people without serial debug cables would have a log showing what happened during the installation? Something along the lines of: http://stackove

[beagleboard] Re: Startup Scripts

2016-11-28 Thread Stephane Charette
> > I am trying to run some simple startup shell scripts when the system boots. > One thing I tend to use is the @reboot keyword in cron. For example: *cat /etc/cron.d/startup_scripts* MAILTO="" PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin @reboot root /home/stephane/scrip

[beagleboard] Re: Connman and WiFi setup

2016-11-21 Thread Stephane Charette
On Sunday, November 20, 2016 at 6:49:08 AM UTC-8, Dave Keenan wrote: > > Mark, did you ever solve this? If so, how? I'm having the same problem but > with a USB WiFi dongle. It worked fine with the old method of editing > /etc/network/interfaces and installing the wifi-reset service. But I've >

[beagleboard] Re: how to enable i2c for beaglebone rev c.

2016-11-14 Thread Stephane Charette
> > cannot detect address device thermal .. > What do you mean by "device thermal"...? Like the Grove temperature sensor? Or the Grove temperature & humidity sensor? If so, you need the ADC grove as well. Like this: https://www.ccoderun.ca/sg++/api/sg_101020015_TemperatureSensor.jpg

[beagleboard] Re: Removal of Components from BBBW for Custom PCB.

2016-11-11 Thread Stephane Charette
> > I'm making a custom BBBW for a school project. I'm adding a few > peripherals but would like to strip down what is unnecessary in order to > save on BOM costs. The first to go is the large HDMI chip. > HDMI and the barrel connector was already removed from BBG and BBGW. Out of curiosity,

Re: [beagleboard] Do I really need a USB-to-FTDI cable to see the U-boot prompt? Will it not work on micro-HDMI?

2016-11-11 Thread Stephane Charette
On Thursday, November 10, 2016 at 12:36:07 PM UTC-8, William Hermans wrote: > > You do not have to buy a FTDI cable. It could be any decent cable, that > does not necessarily cost as much as FTDI. For example my buddy and I > ordered a couple of PL2303HX cables off ebay for like $5-6 usd shipped.

[beagleboard] Re: Flashing a BBB's EMC from uSD Card - problems

2016-11-10 Thread Stephane Charette
> > I have spent hours Googling and trying just about everything I can think > of to re-falsh my BBB with Debian 8.4 (Jessie 2016-05-13) with no luck. > In case this helps, I documented how I got started a little while ago. You can find my ramblings here: https://www.ccoderun.ca/programming/

[beagleboard] Re: does the BBGW wifi hardware have a power saving mode?

2016-11-08 Thread Stephane Charette
> > Yes WL18xx does have a power save mode which is on by default. It can be > disabled with > echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/wlcore/sleep_auth > That seems to have made a difference, Iain. My BBGW doesn't do it every time, so I cannot yet say for certain, but so far today the 2 tim

Re: [beagleboard] hostapd on BBGW

2016-11-08 Thread Stephane Charette
> > In the seeed-iot image it's: wificonfig.service Thanks, Robert, that got me where I needed. For the sake of Google searches in the future, if anyone else is looking to change their SSID, see "options.ssid" in the file /usr/local/lib/node_modules/wificonfig/lib/wifi.js. Stéphane -- Fo

[beagleboard] hostapd on BBGW

2016-11-08 Thread Stephane Charette
I'm still trying to figure out where the WIFI SSID is set on the BBGW so I can customize it. I see this process running: hostapd -B SoftAp0-hostapd.conf The -B means "run in the background". So that leaves the SoftAp0-hostapd.conf file. Where is this configuration file? From what I can see

[beagleboard] does the BBGW wifi hardware have a power saving mode?

2016-11-06 Thread Stephane Charette
Does the BBGW or the wifi hardware on the BBGW have some sort of power saving mode? Something interesting I noticed about those "*wlcore: ERROR SW watchdog interrupt received! starting recovery*" messages that fill up my serial console: I get one almost every time the BBGW sends out a packet.

[beagleboard] BBGW: ERROR SW watchdog interrupt received! starting recovery.

2016-11-04 Thread Stephane Charette
When my BBGW boots up, the serial console gets flooded with this message every few seconds: [ 1000.268493] wlcore: ERROR SW watchdog interrupt received! starting recovery. [ 1002.334742] wlcore: ERROR SW watchdog interrupt received! starting recovery. [ 1006.021489] wlcore: ERROR SW watchdog i

[beagleboard] how to use setup_sdcard.sh and the new oemflasher builds

2016-11-03 Thread Stephane Charette
I've read through the posts for the past few weeks, but don't see this as a topic discussed yet. I downloaded the new oemflasher image I see on rcn-ee.com: https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-10-31/oemflasher/debian-8.6-oemflasher-armhf-2016-10-31.tar.xz This is what I tried: unxz -

[beagleboard] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 for BBGW

2016-11-03 Thread Stephane Charette
Or Ubuntu 16.04? Or 16.10? On Sunday, October 23, 2016 at 8:34:39 AM UTC-7, Käptn Iglo wrote: > > Is there any Ubuntu 14.04 Image available for the Beagle Bone Green > Wireless which supports the Wifi Chip on the Board ? > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You rec

[beagleboard] Re: tools for Commissioning and managing > 100 nodes

2016-11-02 Thread Stephane Charette
Munin for monitoring. EPS Conduits for access through client firewalls. Stéphane On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 11:09:17 PM UTC-7, Neabex wrote: > > Hey guys, > what are you guys using to manage software updates and performing health > checks of remote nodes? Are you using the standard linu

[beagleboard] Re: wifi works when BBGW first powered on, but not after a warm reboot

2016-10-25 Thread Stephane Charette
On Friday, September 9, 2016 at 1:06:21 PM UTC-7, Stephane Charette wrote: > > When I first plug power into my BBGW, everything works great. But if I > issue a "reboot" or "shutdown -r now" command, when the device boots back > up I have no wifi. > This m

[beagleboard] Re: where is the wifi ssid defined?

2016-10-08 Thread Stephane Charette
...anyone know? On Sunday, October 2, 2016 at 4:19:14 AM UTC-7, Stephane Charette wrote: > > Where is the BBGW SSID defined? For example, the SSID on my BBGW is named > "BeagleBone053927". > > Is there a configuration file where this can be set? > > Stéphane >

Re: [beagleboard] angstrom image

2016-10-02 Thread Stephane Charette
On Sunday, October 2, 2016 at 1:10:34 PM UTC-7, Wulf Man wrote: > > try a REAL OS and use Debian. > Not exactly the most helpful reply. ;) Mahmoud, you didn't specify what device you are using. The most up-to-date Debian images are published by Robert C Nelson. You can find them here: https

[beagleboard] where is the wifi ssid defined?

2016-10-02 Thread Stephane Charette
Where is the BBGW SSID defined? For example, the SSID on my BBGW is named "BeagleBone053927". Is there a configuration file where this can be set? Stéphane -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [beagleboard] wifi works when BBGW first powered on, but not after a warm reboot

2016-10-01 Thread Stephane Charette
On Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 8:11:58 AM UTC-7, RobertCNelson wrote: > > ... > (the old way) > dtb=am335x-bonegreen-wireless.dtb > (the led-on way (this is the method we've been testing this week)) > dtb=am335x-bonegreen-wireless-led-hack.dtb Where does this line go if I want to go back

Re: [beagleboard] cannot boot latest RCN image from 2016-09-28 on BBGW

2016-10-01 Thread Stephane Charette
On Saturday, October 1, 2016 at 8:46:16 PM UTC-7, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Stephane Charette > > wrote: > > Trying to test the latest RCN image from 2016-09-28. But I get a kernel > > panic before the flashing begins. Serial debug conso

[beagleboard] cannot boot latest RCN image from 2016-09-28 on BBGW

2016-10-01 Thread Stephane Charette
Trying to test the latest RCN image from 2016-09-28. But I get a kernel panic before the flashing begins. Serial debug console shows these errors: Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ... done. Begin: Will now check root file system ... fsck from util-linux 2.25.2 fsck: error 2 (No such file

[beagleboard] Re: bbgw wlan0 users

2016-09-28 Thread Stephane Charette
On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 10:25:55 AM UTC-7, Dani Sch wrote: > > This image for BBGW doesn't work for me at all. No wifi network pops up in > available connections, and when I try to run your commands under > connmanctl, I get the following: > I also reported in a different thread that

Re: [beagleboard] wifi works when BBGW first powered on, but not after a warm reboot

2016-09-21 Thread Stephane Charette
I installed build BBGW-blank-debian-8.6-seeed-iot-armhf-2016-09-18-4gb tonight. But I cannot get WIFI to work at all with this build. I think the most recent changes have made things worse. On both cold and warm boot, the serial console spits out the same message every few seconds: wlcore: ER

Re: [beagleboard] Grove temperature sensor on Beaglebone Black

2016-09-14 Thread Stephane Charette
I have done some work with that sensor on a BBG: https://www.ccoderun.ca/sg++/api/classSG_1_1TemperatureSensor.html#details ...connected to this Grove ADC: https://www.ccoderun.ca/sg++/api/classSG_1_1I2CADC.html#details The problem is the numbers I was retrieving didn't make sense, and I hav

Re: [beagleboard] wifi works when BBGW first powered on, but not after a warm reboot

2016-09-14 Thread Stephane Charette
On Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 2:09:16 PM UTC-7, Stephane Charette wrote: > > On Friday, September 9, 2016 at 1:15:42 PM UTC-7, RobertCNelson wrote: >> >> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Stephane Charette >> wrote: >> > When I first plug power into my BBGW

Re: [beagleboard] wifi works when BBGW first powered on, but not after a warm reboot

2016-09-10 Thread Stephane Charette
On Friday, September 9, 2016 at 1:15:42 PM UTC-7, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Stephane Charette > > wrote: > > When I first plug power into my BBGW, everything works great. But if I > > issue a "reboot" or "shutdown -r now&quo

[beagleboard] wifi works when BBGW first powered on, but not after a warm reboot

2016-09-09 Thread Stephane Charette
When I first plug power into my BBGW, everything works great. But if I issue a "reboot" or "shutdown -r now" command, when the device boots back up I have no wifi. *Anyone else having problems with wifi not working when doing a "warm" reboot? Is this a known problem, or is there a known worka

[beagleboard] Re: "invalid ELF header" error in latest RCN image?

2016-09-08 Thread Stephane Charette
> > I tried to create myself a backup user account on my BBGW, but I'm getting > a "invalid ELF header" error: > > debian@beaglebone:~$ *sudo useradd --create-home --shell /bin/bash > --user-group --groups sudo backupuser* > useradd: error while loading shared libraries: > /usr/lib/arm-linux-gn

[beagleboard] error messages on serial console during BBGW bootup

2016-09-08 Thread Stephane Charette
The serial debug cable I ordered for my BBGW finally got here. I downloaded RCN's most recent build, BBGW-blank-debian-8.5-seeed-iot-armhf-2016-09-04-4gb.img. I did see a few errors on the serial console during the installation: Creating journal (16384 blocks): done Writing superblocks and fil

[beagleboard] "invalid ELF header" error in latest RCN image?

2016-09-08 Thread Stephane Charette
Image: https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-09-04/seeed-iot/BBGW-blank-debian-8.5-seeed-iot-armhf-2016-09-04-4gb.img.xz I tried to create myself a backup user account on my BBGW, but I'm getting a "invalid ELF header" error: debian@beaglebone:~$ *sudo useradd --create-home --shell /b

[beagleboard] error trying to enable BBGW wifi on newest build

2016-09-03 Thread Stephane Charette
I'm using this image on my BBGW: https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-08-28/seeed-iot/BBGW-blank-debian-8.5-seeed-iot-armhf-2016-08-28-4gb.img.xz Initial image write seems to work. Then I login with the debian username, and try to enable wifi, but I'm getting this: $ sudo connmanctl

[beagleboard] What is the difference between these builds?

2016-08-31 Thread Stephane Charette
In reference to BBB, BBG, and BBGW (I own some of all 3 models) what is the difference between: - bbgw blank debian 8.5 seeed-iot - bone debian 8.5 seeed-iot - debian 8.5 seeed-iot ...found in this directory: https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-08-28/seeed-iot/ ? Stéphan

Re: [beagleboard] flashing lights and failed installation on BBGW

2016-08-10 Thread Stephane Charette
On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 8:09:08 PM UTC-7, Wulf Man wrote: > > what power supply are you using? > The USB micro (the only power option on a BBGW) plugged into a Certified Data 4-port powered USB hub: http://www.londondrugs.com/certified-data-usb-3.0-4-port-hub---hy-hb-8517/L8469843.ht

[beagleboard] flashing lights and failed installation on BBGW

2016-08-10 Thread Stephane Charette
Trying to install BBGW-blank-debian-8.5-seeed-iot-armhf-2016-08-07-4gb.img onto a new BBGW. Had problems, so I went out and bought a new micro SD card and a new card reader just in case. When I hold the boot button down as I plug in power, I get one of two scenarios happening: - User LEDs

Re: [beagleboard] meaning of BeagleBone build names from RCN

2016-08-10 Thread Stephane Charette
Thanks for the reply, Robert. Knowing that I have a BBGW where I want to enable WIFI, which build would you recommend from the following: > I did find several Debian builds with BBGW in the name, but I don't > > know the difference between them. For example: > > > > > https://rcn-ee.com/rootf

[beagleboard] meaning of BeagleBone build names from RCN

2016-08-10 Thread Stephane Charette
Can someone help explain the name of various builds available on RCN's site? I have a hard time guessing the meaning or difference between builds. What I was looking for is a *Ubuntu 16.04* build that I can install on my Seeed Studio *BBGW*, and which includes everything necessary to use WIFI

[beagleboard] Re: BeagleBoard.org Latest Firmware Images - suggest pointing to 8.3 image rather than 8.4

2016-07-14 Thread Stephane Charette
On Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 8:21:47 AM UTC-7, Jeff Albrecht wrote: > ... > In my thread "jessie moved my WiFi cheese" > > I document that 8.4 and 8.5 images don't work for wifi setup via connmanctl > and that 8.3 does

[beagleboard] Seeed Studio's 5" touch screen LCD for BeagleBone

2016-07-10 Thread Stephane Charette
Anyone else try Seeed's 5" or 7" LCDs? http://www.seeedstudio.com/item_detail.html?p_id=2642 I have the 5" model hooked up to my BBGW­. I have the screen working. I have touch working. But when it comes to the 5 buttons below the screen (LEFT, RIGHT, UP, DOWN, ENTER) I can only get RIGHT an

[beagleboard] BeagleBone, AM335X, USB, and memory location 0x47401c60

2016-07-03 Thread Stephane Charette
On BB, or rather on the TI AM335x, memory location 0x47401c60 can be used to turn the USB power on and off. I've used this successfully on my BBB and BBG. E.g., https://www.ccoderun.ca/sg++/api/namespaceSG_1_1BeagleBone_1_1USB.html#afd15ab8e9d038c6c870f3b90e6b245ec However, on BBGW, this tec

Re: [beagleboard] How to disable SoftAp0 with address 192.168.8.1 on BBGW?

2016-07-03 Thread Stephane Charette
> > And if like me you don't have a cell phone or other *bluetooth* device to > configure the wlan0 interface, I have that figured out and documented here: > https://www.ccoderun.ca/programming/2016-06-29_BBGW/index.html#wifi > I meant to say *wifi*, not *bluetooth*. Stéphane -- For more o

Re: [beagleboard] How to disable SoftAp0 with address 192.168.8.1 on BBGW?

2016-07-03 Thread Stephane Charette
> > SoftAp0 is created by the wifidog service: > > wifidog-pre-startup.service > & > wifidog-gateway.service > > > https://github.com/rcn-ee/repos/blob/master/seeed-wificonfig-installer/suite/jessie/debian/wifidog_pre > > > Thanks, Robert. For anyone else running into this, here is the sim

Re: [beagleboard] What is the latest BBGW image?

2016-07-02 Thread Stephane Charette
>> cannot seem to find one. The most recent Ubuntu image I see is this: >> >> http://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/2016-06-09/flasher/BBB-eMMC-flasher-ubuntu-16.04-console-armhf-2016-06-09-2gb.img.xz >> >> But from the name, this image seems to be for the BBB, not BBGW. > >It'll work fine for the bbgw,

[beagleboard] How to disable SoftAp0 with address 192.168.8.1 on BBGW?

2016-07-02 Thread Stephane Charette
I'm running BBGW-blank-debian-8.5-seeed-iot-armhf-2016-06-19-4gb.img on a BBGW. I've used connmanctl to configure the wifi network to which I want to connect, and everything is working OK so far. On bootup, my BBGW does DHCP an address and I can ssh into it. What I'd like to do now is disabl

[beagleboard] What is the latest BBGW image?

2016-07-02 Thread Stephane Charette
Where would I find the most recent BBGW image? Am I looking at the right place when I look at this: http://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-06-19/seeed-iot/BBGW-blank-debian-8.5-seeed-iot-armhf-2016-06-19-4gb.img.xz Related question: where would the latest BBGW *Ubuntu* image be located?

[beagleboard] where to find config-pin?

2016-06-22 Thread Stephane Charette
I see some posts and examples that includes references to running config-pin. But where is this tool? root@bbg /# *config-pin --help* fish: Unknown command 'config-pin' root@bbg /# *find / | grep -i -c config-pin* 0 I'm running Robert C Nelson's Ubuntu 16.04 image on a BBG. Stéphane -- For m

Re: [beagleboard] Please suggest. How to disable kernel loading uart2 ?

2016-06-22 Thread Stephane Charette
On Sunday, February 7, 2016 at 10:37:04 AM UTC-8, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Pinit Asavanuchit > wrote: > > > > I am using Debian 8.3 (BeagleBone, BeagleBone Black, Seeed BeagleBone > Green, > > Arrow BeagleBone Black Industrial - 4GB SD) 2016-01-24. on BBG > >

[beagleboard] How to use the Grove-UART port for GPIO on BBG?

2016-06-21 Thread Stephane Charette
I see several examples on the web on how to use the Grove-UART port for GPIO. They talk about modifying a line in /boot/uEnv.txt: For example, this page http://www.seeedstudio.com/recipe/index.php?controller=recipe&action=show&recipe_id=362&ref=product ...states in somewhat broken English: T