BeagleBone Black Networking (wifi and/or wired)

Chris Johns chrisj at rtems.org
Fri Jun 7 09:16:57 UTC 2019


On 7/6/19 6:34 pm, Christian Mauderer wrote:
> On 07/06/2019 10:23, Chris Johns wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am looking for some information on doing either but I cannot find out what I
>> need. I have run a few libbsd examples and some run and some crash. I am
>> wondering if I need an device tree installed but I cannot find out which one and
>> from where.
>>
>> Any hints would be most welcome.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Chris
> 
> Hello Chris,
> 
> for wired network, you should be able to add libbsd and start the
> network similar like for all other boards.

Nice. Do I need u-boot to load an FDT? I am not currently doing that.

> 
> Wireless is still some more effort. Note that you will need the
> everything buildset of libbsd for that.
> 
> If you want you can have a look at the example application that I used
> during the last GSoC projects:
> 
>     https://gitlab.com/c-mauderer/rtems-bbb/tree/master/apps/wifi-sample
> 
> That application starts a wpa_supplicant. It expects a RT8188EU based
> WLAN dongle. There should be a wpa_supplicant.conf on the root of your
> SD card. If I remember correctly it even routes between the networks. So
> you could basically use the BBB as a Ethernet to WLAN adapter.

Nice.

Thanks
Chris



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