I've been playing with the BeagleBone Green Wireless over the last few days, and it's an awesome piece of hardware. I've been using older BeagleBones for the last few years, and it's always been annoying having to add a USB hub and two dongles if you want both WiFi and Bluetooth. Now both capabilities are built into the board and there's no need for a hub anymore with four onboard USB ports.
For those of you using this board with either the 5/13/2016 or 5/31/2016 images (bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-13-4gb.img.xz or bone-debian-8.4-seeed-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-31-4gb.img.xz), I've noticed that the bluetooth device doesn't appear until you manually run "bb-wl18xx-bluetooth" ("hcitool dev" comes up empty until you do this). <https://debian.beagleboard.org/images/bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-13-4gb.img.xz> I've also noticed that trying to install additional packages can screw things up. For example, if you run "apt-get update" followed by "apt-get install nfs-common" it borks the wifi. I started getting "wlcode: ERROR ELP wakeup timeout" errors after doing this and couldn't figure out how to recover. Perhaps the package locations are misconfigured or not fully populated? In any case, I look forward to a bright future for this board. Any other first impressions? <https://debian.beagleboard.org/images/bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-13-4gb.img.xz> -- 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 beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/aa115a4b-2017-4bea-bc13-62f0ce046a33%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.