On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Peter Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > It works! > > The trick was: The firmware was bricked and needed to be restarted > (unplugged & plugged back in after the system was configured & started up). > Once I got it restarted, I could power down & up and it would continue to > work. > > So, the trick to getting this device to work on the Beaglebone Black is the > following: > > Build a custom kernel and include the radio drivers for the si470x > > install base image: bone-debian-7.6-console-armhf-2014-09-04-2gb.img on a SD > card > > On a linux box: > > Load pre-requisites for building ti graphics SDK and build it for the kernel > #sudo apt-get install git build-essential device-tree-compiler lzma lzop > u-boot-tools libncurses5-dev > #git config —global user.name “name” > #git config —global user.email “email” > #git clone https://github.com/RobertCNelson/ti-linux-kernel-dev.git > #cd ti-linux-kernel-dev > #git checkout 3.14.19-ti-r27 > #./build_kernel > > Select kernel modules to enable si470x radio tuner hardware (more stuff will > be added after that) > Check Device Drivers -> Multimedia Support -> AM/FM radio > receivers/transmitter support > Radio Adaptors will be added. > Check Radio Adaptors -> Silicon Labs Si470x FM Radio Receiver Support > Check Radio Adaptors -> Silicon Labs Si470x FM Radio Receiver Support -> > Silicon Labs Si470x FM Radio Receiver Support with USB
^^ this is now taken care of. ;) sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.14.19-ti-r28 Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
