beagleboard ubuntu autologin

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Hi

Last question, I promise! How do I get the beagleboard to autologin in
ubuntu? I've read that you can autologin ubuntu by using mingetty in /
etc/inittab, but there is no /etc/inittab.

cheers

Marek

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I'm going to assume you mean over the serial port:

Change: /etc/init/ttyS2.conf

from:
exec /sbin/getty 115200 ttyS2

to something like:
exec /sbin/getty -n -l /usr/bin/autologin 115200 ttyS2

For gdm: its..

Change the daemon-section of your /etc/gdm/custom.conf:
[daemon]
TimedLoginEnable=true
TimedLogin=user_name
TimedLoginDelay=0

Regards,

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Hey

thanks for the suggestion. I tried it, but it gets to the end of the
startup and then every few seconds it prints a carriage return to the
serial instead of displaying a login prompt. I noticed that there's no
file at /usr/bin/autologin... could that be something to do with it?
BTW, thanks for your help to this point! ubuntu seems to be working
better for me the angstrom distro (arduino is happy connecting out of
the box, wifi *almost* works!)

cheers

Marek

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Hey

thanks for the suggestion. I tried it, but it gets to the end of the
startup and then every few seconds it prints a carriage return to the
serial instead of displaying a login prompt. I noticed that there's no
file at /usr/bin/autologin... could that be something to do with it?

Here's a better guide on that:

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-31310.html

BTW, thanks for your help to this point! ubuntu seems to be working
better for me the angstrom distro (arduino is happy connecting out of
the box, wifi *almost* works!)

Which wifi adapter?

I would give v2.6.32.11-x12 or v2.6.33.2-d5 a try...

Regards,

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yay, it works!!

cheers!

The wifi dongle is
050d:7050 Belkin Components F5D7050 ver 1000 WiFi
according to lsusb.

It seems to pick see networks with "iwlist scan" ok, but there's
nothing I've tried will get it working.

I've installed wpa-supplicant, done an /etc/network/interfaces:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-driver wext
wpa-ssid mediactive
wpa-ap-scan 1
wpa-proto RSN
wpa-pairwise CCMP
wpa-group CCMP
wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
wpa-psk ******** (hex generated from wpa-supplicant)

One thing that almost worked was setting it up in ad-hoc mode, then my
laptop would see it, but once connected to the network it couldn't
even ping it. Tried running mongoose webserver on it, which works fine
locally (wget 127.0.0.1), but there's no way to get at it. I guess I
don't really know what I'm doing.

I also tried setting up wlan0 explicitly with iwconfig, on a network
with no encryption, but when I "sudo ifup wlan0" it says

Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:11:50:3e:c3:88
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:11:50:3e:c3:88
Sending on Socket/fallback
ubuntu@beagleboard:~$ sudo ifup wlan0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.2
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:11:50:3e:c3:88
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:11:50:3e:c3:88
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

It's weird that iwconfig doesn't have my ssid, it's just blank.

It's been a nightmare trying to get it to work. I tried a while ago
with angstrom and gave up. Installing ubuntu, I thought I'd give it
another crack.

cheers

Marek