Archive for October, 2009:

OpenSSH Server on BeagleBoard with Ubuntu


Published on October 30th, 2009
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Once USB Networking has been configured on the BeagleBoard, everything becomes a lot easier. As ARM is now a first-class citizen for Ubuntu builds, there’s now a world of Ubuntu and Debian software that can easily be installed, either with aptitude or good ol’ apt-get. After USB networking was up and running, I configured internet [...]

USB Host-to-host networking on the Beagle Board


Published on October 30th, 2009
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I was able to pretty easily get USB networking on the beagleboard, going between my Mac and the beagleboard without a USB to Ethernet adapter (of which I have ordered one, but two weeks on, DealExtreme hasn’t done much with my order yet. Other than charge my PayPal account that is…) Anyway, here’s what needed [...]

Kernel Panic on the Beagle – FIXED.


Published on October 30th, 2009
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I had an issue where the beagleboard would kernel panic after a cold boot, yet if I hit the reset button it would boot up OK. Thanks to the helpful people over on the Beagle Board Google Groups page, a solution was quickly provided – upgrade the u-boot image in the NAND. http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu#Upgrade_U-Boot I followed [...]

HOWTO: Ubuntu on the BeagleBoard


Published on October 28th, 2009
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This post is a step-by-step guide to get Ubuntu Linux up and running on the BeagleBoard. There’s nothing much new here, more it’s gathering information that’s spread over a few different pages all into one place, so if I need to do it again from scratch I’ve got an easy reference to follow.

Ubuntu on ARM – running on the BeagleBoard


Published on October 27th, 2009
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I’ll post up a HOWTO later, but for now here’s where I’m at with it: ubuntu@beagleboard:~$ uname -a Linux beagleboard 2.6.29-oer44.1 #1 PREEMPT Thu Sep 3 15:45:34 UTC 2009 armv7l GNU/Linux ubuntu@beagleboard:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 3 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 492.62 Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp thumbee neon CPU [...]

The BeagleBoard


Published on October 26th, 2009
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I’m working on a project that’s pretty scant on details at the moment, but it’s going to be based around a small computer with an attached LCD. I haven’t selected the display it will use yet, but the brains of the machine are looking like they will be an ARM based unit. I’ve long held [...]

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