On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Carl Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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).
This is a fun issue, it varies between board's but we need about a 20-25 second delay on startup before bluetooth can be loaded.. ;) > 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? The "ERROR ELP" is a little better if you upgrade to 4.4.11-ti-r29 cd /opt/scripts/tools/ sudo ./update_kernel.sh --ti-channel --lts-4_4 It looks to be a race condition between the wl18xx reset and the modules/firmware loading.. > In any case, I look forward to a bright future for this board. Any other > first impressions? Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAOCHtYgNmCDixfYan7zGUTB4UA1pW3%3DjAbwW%3D0uo1Ch-KMp0Tg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
