My ventures into the belly of the Beast (BBB)!

[jloh]

I got my BBB a couple weeks ago from here and I was very anxious to try it out to see what it could do. Well here's my journey or the start of it.

I put together the box, according to the video here. but had lots of trouble until I decided to turn the screws around and put them on the table. So the heads of hte bolts were on the table and the base was on top of that, then I put the stands and the BBB on top. It wasn't too hard to get the nuts on. So the nuts are on the board rather than the screw heads.

Next I attached the USB, and an Ethernet cable. Did the opkg update thing. And was on my merry way. I did want to see if I could use the microsd slot as another device, and figured out how I could fudge it (see my other post here: http://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=43433). Then came the next trick getting my wireless to work. I did get it to work, more on this later, but I found angstrom with it's connman hard to deal with. Being more familiar with debian, I flashed the mmc with debian by basically following these directions here: http://avedo.net/653/flashing-ubuntu-13 ... lack-emmc/
but I went to the website and downloaded the most recent debian, which in my case was debian-7.1-console-armhf-2013-08-26. After I downloaded that and subsequently flashed it, I found wlan was again not working as was the case in Angstromm, again no modules installed. I used an EDIMAX 7811UN (which uses a REALTEK 8188CUS). So I basically followed this procedure: http://www.codealpha.net/864/how-to-set ... black-bbb/ with some modification. I skipped the first box and downloaded the kernel sources this way:

REMEMBER: This is for Debian. maybe Ubuntu too because it's based on Debian.

wget https://raw.github.com/gkaindl/beaglebo ... -source.sh
chmod +x ./bb-get-rcn-kernel-source.sh
./bb-get-rcn-kernel-source.sh

Then I followed up to the second command in the third box. Just to clarify I followed everything in the second box. Then do the following.
echo 8192cu >> /etc/modules
cd /etc/modules.d
put this in wifi_blacklist.conf

blacklist rtl8192cu
blacklist rtl8192c_common
blacklist rtlwifi

So what we just did was install the correct 8192 modules for Debian.

The rest of the boxes are for connman.

At this point I editted my /etc/network/interfaces file and took out eth0 and inserted wlan0.

You can find numerous examples here: https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse. So no I will not put up my interfaces file.

Next I'll tackle getting my logitech unify keyboard working.

[jloh]

Oh I forgot a couple steps on the bottom.

depmod -a
cd /boot
ln -s uboot/initrd.img initrm.img-$(uname -r)
update-initramfs -u

BTW you may want to do a this before you build the 8192cu module.

cd /usr/src
ln -s linux-$(uname -r) kernel