Hummingboard - How to use Images

Russell Haley russ.haley at gmail.com
Tue Nov 3 19:53:59 UTC 2015


Well technically your correct.  It's an option on the i2eX and i4Pro‎ SOM not on the carrier board. Broadcom BCM4330. Their specification claims b/g/n but if you read the wiki it only supports 2.4 Ghz. 

http://solid-run.com/freescale-imx6-family/imx6-som/imx6-som-specifications/

http://wiki.solid-run.com/doku.php?id=products:imx6:microsom:btwifi

Russ

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  Original Message  
From: Gavin Atkinson
Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2015 11:22 AM
To: Russell Haley
Cc: John Little
Subject: Re: Hummingboard - How to use Images


As far as I can tell, the Hummingboard doesn't have wifi?

Thanks,

Gavin

On Tue, 27 Oct 2015, Russell Haley wrote:

> Ha ha. I've spent weeks pouring over my own build trying to make it work. I
> was even trying to figure out how to get the kernel debugger working. I had
> the latest image booted in less than 30 minutes.
> 
> Okay, so I've booted but no wi-fi adapter. What kernel module do I load
> for the wi-fi?
> 
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 9:42 PM, John Little <sbi.gaijin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Yup, it's all rolled in there. Easy (once you get past the messed-up dtb
> > file name).
> >
> >
> > On 28 October 2015 at 10:02, Russell Haley <russ.haley at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Sweet! So u-boot is already part of the image?
> >>
> >> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Koodo network.
> >> *From: *John Little
> >> *Sent: *Tuesday, October 27, 2015 6:07 AM
> >> *To: *russ.haley at gmail.com
> >> *Subject: *Re: Hummingboard - How to use Images
> >>
> >> Russ,
> >>
> >> "dd"ing with no special options should work okay. I think you already
> >> know
> >> about the DTB file-name problem which Ian talked about a while back.
> >> I haven't tried the latest builds (late October) from the web site
> >> yet, so that
> >> might already be fixed, but just in case, here's some info on the
> >> CuBox-i4p
> >> which is basically the same hardware:-
> >>
> >>
> >> https://esp8266hints.wordpress.com/2015/10/23/a-non-esp8266-aside-getting-freebsd-10-2-to-boot-on-the-cubox-i4p/
> >>
> >> You can check the exact spelling of the DTB file-names using "ls
> >> .boot/dtb" from
> >> the loader prompt.
> >>
> >>
> >> -John-
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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