Connecting to internet on BBB Industrial with "am335x-debian-12.2-iot-armhf-2023-10-07-4gb.img"

General Discussion
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Hi,

I have recently purchased a BBBIndustrial

I tried the stock image on the eMMC and could connect to internet by connecting a TP-LINK WiFi dongle.

Then I loaded an sd card with “am335x-debian-12.2-iot-armhf-2023-10-07-4gb.img” and booted from it.
I am unable to use WiFi here as it seems nmcli and connman both are not present.

Can anyone tell me how to connect to the internet on my board?

Also, couldn’t get the flashing done by loading flasher image on the sdcard as per method given here . The LEDs keep on blinking even if I leave it for 2 hours

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Ethernet cable

Factory sealed bag or used?

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iwd is used on Debian 12.x Debian 12.x (Major Changes).... NCM only, iwd for wifi..

Boot up, login and run:

sudo enable-beagle-flasher

microSD will be setup to flash the eMMC…

Regards,

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Thanks, I will try both of these tomorrow.

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  1. It was much easier in eMMC image when connman was already installed. I thought microSD image should have had same applications installed, if not more.

  2. Sealed

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At the time (Debian 11.x and Debian 12.x) Debian’s connman maintainer resigned. We weren’t going to ship a broken network manager with no maintainer… In Debian 11.x we copied RPI’s wpa_suppliant… Even with all the RPI guides, users got confused, so in Debian 12.x we moved to iwd, which is actively maintained and has a simple command line option.

Regards,

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Thanks alot for the context.
I hope to understand the beaglebone environment soon and design a custom hardware based on AM3358 for work.

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Hi,

I tried using iwd, but there are some issues.

I connected my wifi dongle and ran dmesg. This is the output:

[11027.783653] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[11027.783663] usb 1-1: Product: 802.11n NIC
[11027.783673] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Realtek
[11027.783681] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 00E04C0001
[11027.792040] Chip Version Info: CHIP_8188E_Normal_Chip_TSMC_D_CUT_1T1R_RomVer(0)
[11029.447646] MAC Address = 74:fe:ce:8e:b0:db

I ran ip link. This is the output:

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 58:2b:0a:b9:74:67 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: usb0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 58:2b:0a:b9:74:6a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: usb1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 58:2b:0a:b9:74:6c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: can0: <NOARP,ECHO> mtu 16 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 10
    link/can 
6: can1: <NOARP,ECHO> mtu 16 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 10
    link/can 
8: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 74:fe:ce:8e:b0:db brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

But when I run iwctl device list, the list is empty. wlan0 is not shown.