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Comment on Problem with Arduino and Debian 6 by geremy

geremy — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 04:38:46 +0000

If it doesnt work off the bat for you, run this before starting arduino:

newgrp dialout

It will set your active group to dialout. This worked for me after the usermod command.

Comment on bus pirate tic tac case by The Third Part | BusPirate Finally Arrives !!!

The Third Part | BusPirate Finally Arrives !!! — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:21:21 +0000

[...] Now the only thing that remains to be done is to make a case for this little guy using a TIC-TAC box (how clever is that !) as shown at http://borderhack.com/?p=166 [...]

Comment on First steps with the Beaglebone by Evan

Evan — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:03:18 +0000

Your tutorial is do well written.. Bravo!
I can’t help but ask about something I am banging my head against the wall about. I am failing at installing Android on the Beaglebone but my only reason to try is simply to play a video file via the LCD7 cape. Have you been able to play a video file on your board with Angstrom?

Thanks!

Comment on First steps with the Beaglebone by j

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:08:24 +0000

opkg upgrade is buggy. It broke some /etc config files for me and I’ve heard others have had problems.

How do we upgrade packages with opkg without uinstalling like ssh for iternet facing security updates?

Comment on First steps with the Beaglebone by Bob Gustafson

Bob Gustafson — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:12:00 +0000

I must be doing something right. (Reading this note was step 1).

I plugged in an ethernet cable to the BB and a router on my LAN. From reading this note, it seemed
that the BB would ask for an IP address on boot, which it did. Looking in the /var/log/messages file
of my host system, I found the IP address that my DHCP server had assigned.

Then, from a terminal session on my host F17 system, I did:

ssh 192.168.49.69

and ta-ta, I logged into the BB !!

I then did:

opkg upgrade

but nothing happened. Then I read more in your note and did:

opkg update
opkg upgrade 2>&1 | tee /var/log/upgrade00.log

It rolled along for over an hour, printing out diagnostic information as it went.

Every once in awhile, it would pause for several minutes, but then would resume.

At the end, it complained about not enough room to write and then quit.

Looking at the output of the ‘df’ command showed that there was quite a bit of space.

So, I just repeated the steps:

opkg update
opkg upgrade 2>&1 | tee upgrade01.log

At what looked like a normal end, I did:

uname -a

and it outputted a build date of Thu Jun 14 23:26:20 CEST, so I thought to reboot

Now the output of ‘uname -a’ is:

Linux beaglebone 3.2.30 #1 Wed Oct 17 09:39:19 CEST 2012 armv7l GNU/Linux

Looks good – thanks much to everyone.