Testing BBBW Wireless Setup

[Kevin Gordon]

The steps taken were as follows (same as on http://www.rescuerobot.org/drupal/?q=content/beaglebone-black-wireless).
Made an SD Card from bone-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-01-10-4gb.img.xz.
Booted BBBW from card.
From a Windows 10 PC using TeraTERM connected on 192.168.8.1
Changed timezone.
Completed Wireless configuration using connmanctl:
root@beaglebone:~# connmanctl
Error getting VPN connections: The name net.connman.vpn was not provided by any connmanctl> scan wifi
Scan completed for wifi
connmanctl> services
    KGNETGEAR            wifi_506583d635bb_4b474e455447454152_managed_psk
    JandJ                wifi_506583d635bb_4a616e644a_managed_psk
connmanctl> agent on
Agent registered
connmanctl> connect wifi_506583d635bb_4b474e455447454152_managed_psk
Agent RequestInput wifi_506583d635bb_4b474e455447454152_managed_psk
  Passphrase = [ Type=psk, Requirement=mandatory, Alternates=[ WPS ] ]
  WPS = [ Type=wpspin, Requirement=alternate ]
Passphrase? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Connected wifi_506583d635bb_4b474e455447454152_managed_psk
connmanctl> quit
root@beaglebone:~# ifconfig wlan0
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 50:65:83:d6:35:bb
          inet addr:192.168.1.4  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::5265:83ff:fed6:35bb/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST DYNAMIC  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:62 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:75 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:10341 (10.0 KiB)  TX bytes:16478 (16.0 KiB)

root@beaglebone:~# apt-get update
root@beaglebone:~# apt-get install leafpad
root@beaglebone:~# apt-get install build-essential git-core device-tree-compiler
root@beaglebone:~# apt-get install gdbserver

Edited the /boot/uEnv.txt file.
Removed the "#" from "dtb=am335x-boneblack-emmc-overlay.dtb"
New line added: "cape_enable=bone_capemgr.enable_partno=BB-UART1,BB-I2C1"

Rebooted the BBBW.

ran ifconfig -a
No wlan0 or SoftAp0. Replaced by eth0.

If I try to shutdown the BBBW immediately reboots.

Is there a possible repair or should I make a new SD Card?

Regards,

Kevin.

[Robert Nelson]

Yeah, i don't have things ready for the BBBW for people to do that
"today"... (i need to make an overlay for the wl1835, and users will
have to use the new U-Boot overlays to make it work)

> New line added: "cape_enable=bone_capemgr.enable_partno=BB-UART1,BB-I2C1"
>
> Rebooted the BBBW.
>
> ran ifconfig -a
> No wlan0 or SoftAp0. Replaced by eth0.
>
> If I try to shutdown the BBBW immediately reboots.

This is one of side affects of having eth0, when there really isn't one..

> Is there a possible repair or should I make a new SD Card?

Regards,

--
Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/