On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 1:03 PM, DeKay <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, 13 November 2014 08:57:58 UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 8:35 PM, DeKay <[email protected]> wrote: >> > See here >> > >> > >> > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/beagleboard/beaglebone-black/Bl8wJo-245c >> > >> > apt-get install rfkill >> > rfkill unblock all >> > >> > But if you can get the TP-Link stick to work without Ooopsing the >> > kernel, >> > you're ahead of me. >> >> Thanks! >> >> So with 2014-11-11 (v3.14.x) and just adding the "wpasupplicant" i can >> now scan and attempt to connect to the one white-listed router we have >> (which of course i forgot the password to).. This is using an older >> Atheros AR9170.. >> >> I have a few atk9's similar to the tp-link at home, i'll try later.. >> > It would be pretty awesome if you could find and fix the issue I linked > above and in this separate post as well > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/beagleboard/beaglebone-black/e7RVYNowOEQ > > And if you are adding packages into the distribution, might I suggest these > as well? > - rf-kill (kernel kills RF by default now, so probably a gotta-have) > - wireless-tools (pretty much always needed for wireless) > - usbutils (very useful for anything usb) > - iw (iwconfig in wireless-tools is going away and doesn't work with sticks > like the TP-Link now) > - atheros-firmware (nice to have because of the TP-Link's popularity)
Just added rfkill and firmware-atheros, i was pulling a few files for atheros, but now the debian packaged version has sane versions again.. https://github.com/beagleboard/image-builder/commit/08164238f95bf7e5daa78e40df998b145d01746f 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.
