New demo image for BeagleBone 2012.08.14

It happened to me that I browsed the Angstrom homepage, and I saw the new demo image.

Here you can see the changelog.

mjpeg-streamer on BeagleBone

Now that we are done with the platform we have to attach some sensors.
I had some experience with webcams and mjpeg-streamer so I thougth it’s is time to create the BeagleBone version.
I used the latest demo image with 3.18 kernel.
I have an Canyon Wc 23 type webcam(CN-WCAM23). When I plugged it in, the kernel modules and drivers loaded automatically without the need to install anything. You can still make sure that everything went well by typing:

lsusb

Building a Rover project day 5 – info about your wifi hardware

This short article is describing how to set up a new wifi stick for the BeagleBone running the Angström linux distribution.

Plug your BeagleBone, connect to it and also plug the wifi stick.

Let’s see what do you have:

root@beaglebone:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0ace:1211 ZyDAS 802.11bg
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Those 2 hexa numbers are already enough information to determine which driver to use with the stick.

They are called vendor and product id.

BeagleBone with Ubuntu

I know you gonna love me.

This tutorial is a mix of several descriptions of how to set up BeagleBone on Ubuntu.