"Using the debian release is nice as like when compiling on the RPI, I
could install PCM and espeak, by simply doing apt-get install and the
packages were installed.  On Angstrom I had to find sources build and
install.  No big deal but it is nice."

Actually, it is a hugely big deal. With the packages already built there
should be some minimal testing already done that you wont get when you
build it yourself.

Just as a for instance, I had the need for Nodejs on my BBB's( still do
actually ), and I was running Wheezy with no actual apt-gettable package.
No big deal I thought, the Nodejs github page has instructions for building
Nodejs from source . . . my first attempt failed, but I quickly found older
instructions that gave me some insight to a single command line switch to
make Nodejs compile for ARM . .. With this step out of the way I proceeded
to get a Nodejs package manager working, compiled in the sources, etc, got
it installed, and then went to download a common package. The package
manager started pulling in x86 compatible only code . . .

Anyway, none of this was a super huge hassle by its self, but by the time I
got everything worked out and running the way I wanted, 2-3 days had passed.

Very glad to see you seem to be pleased with how Debian is working for you
! I felt the same way, and still do.


On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 12:41 PM, KurtE <[email protected]> wrote:

> I will answer my own question, on the off chance someone else is wanting
> to do the same.  Actually I did it two ways:Another thing.
> One example /etc/udev/rules.d/99-tty-serial.rules  Looks like:
>
> SUBSYSTEM=="tty", KERNEL=="ttyO1", SYMLINK+="ttyXBEE"
> SUBSYSTEM=="tty", KERNEL=="ttyO2", SYMLINK+="ttySSC-32"
>
> I also was able to do it like:
> SUBSYSTEM=="tty", ATTRS{port}=="0x0", ATTRS{line}=="1", SYMLINK+="ttyXBEE"
> SUBSYSTEM=="tty", ATTRS{port}=="0x0", ATTRS{line}=="2", SYMLINK+="ttyRCLAW"
>
> Earlier I was using a Roboclaw motor controller on this.
>
> Kurt
>
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