Beaglebone Black - Network Manager & VNC

[Michael Coulton]

Hello

I've flashed an 8 GB micro SD card with the Debian (4 GB) version found on the BB site. I now want a GUI to use the built in network manager and VNC. What desktop do you recommend I use i.e Gnome, KDE etc. Also I have an Archer T2U Nano V1 WiFi doggle that I'd like to use. Does anyone know the commands I needed to download and install the driver for that? 

Thanks in advance for any help that can be provided.

Michael

[Robert Nelson]

Grab one of the "lxqt" testing images,

https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:Latest-images-testing

it will be released as official..

Regards,

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

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 05:09:05 -0700 (PDT), in
gmane.comp.hardware.beagleboard.user Michael Coulton

<mc6650-Re5JQEe...@public.gmane.org> wrote:

>Hello
>I've flashed an 8 GB micro SD card with the Debian (4 GB) version found on
>the BB site. I now want a GUI to use the built in network manager and VNC.

I would presume you mean an image from
http://beagleboard.org/latest-images

>What desktop do you recommend I use i.e Gnome, KDE etc. Also I have an

It might be faster to pull a non-production image from
https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/ that has LXQT in the name. Those
already have a desktop defined. The most recent would be
https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2020-09-07/buster-lxqt/ (I
wouldn't bother with the flasher images for LXQT at all -- they leave
barely enough free space to even log into the device <G>)
{Heck, even an 8GB uSD card could be uncomfortable with an LXQT image, if
one is adding enough application stuff [GNAT, etc., your VNC]!

| BeagleBoard.org Debian Buster LXQt Image 2020-08-19

debian@beaglebone:~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/mmcblk0p1 7572696 3318996 3894940 47% /

}

>Archer T2U Nano V1 WiFi doggle that I'd like to use. Does anyone know the
>commands I needed to download and install the driver for that?
>

https://suraj.dev/blog/configuring-wireless-usb-adapter-archer-t2u-nano-on-linux


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Dennis L Bieber