Pocket Beagle 2 Images and bb-imager

General Discussion
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Hey There,

I am trying to flash an image to the PB2. I got one of the images on bb-imager to flash but I had to take dhcp auto off of the options picked.

Do I need to manually add an IPv4 address myself and/or how should I go about handling the image and Internet Sharing on a Windows Host with PuTTY or another client?

The older model with two cores, well actually I only got it up and running once, got me to the Internet and via the Windows Host via Internet Sharing.

I can make my own manual target config. with the PB2 but I wanted to make sure this is how one should go about it, i.e. trying to mark out any errors that I can mark out.

Seth

P.S. I picked up the four core one recently and I wanted to make sure it was the four core PB2 but I have not been able to update/upgrade via the old routine on the PB2 in a bit:

sudo ip addr flush dev usb0
sudo dhclient usb0

I would check, after entering PuTTY via a COM terminal, ip a and then once usb0 was available, I would perform the two commands from above and get online via Internet Sharing.

Recently, I have had no such luck on Windows with the NCM drivers. Is anyone else having complications getting online via their PB2 and how have you overcome this obstacle?

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Also…

I tried openocd. I do not know enough about it for now. I got the pi probe debugger for use with the PB2 and other devices that allow for SWD and UART.

Right now, since on WSL2 machines within Windows 11, I am not able to get the pi probe to register on the PB2 and a Windows 11 machine via WSL2. So, no issue really. I can always try on an Ubuntu image or Debian Bookworm for testing in the future.

I am just wondering about some points:

  1. Would I need openocd to handle debugging my set up on the PB2?

or…

  1. Can I use the pi probe as an UART probe with the PB2?

Learning in time and testing will keep on going…

Seth

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If you are using Windows Internet Connections Sharing, leave the dhcp auto on…

Regards,

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Hey,

@RobertCNelson , I cannot get an image from the 0.0.7 version of bb-imager to boot a properly built image from within its confines.

So, bb-imager offers Board -> Image -> Done. No matter what image I pick or if I choose DHCP on or off or auto or ON/OFF and any image, I cannot use it.

I can boot dhcp off images for the PB2 for most of them. The others just do not boot with 0.0.7 of the bb-imager source.

Do you have another idea I can try or should I reach out elsewhere?

Seth

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Which exact image are you flashing thru bb-imager-rs?

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I am not using -rs. I am using the 0.0.7 version of bb-imager.

I am using this one on…ut oh.

Maybe my silly self installed the Windows Version for Ubuntu. Blah.

zip files. I need to go and check.

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Just a heads up here. I could not understand what to do with the bb-imager-rs files from openbeagle.org.

Seth

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Which of the 3 images it recommended did you use?

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Bookworm and all.

I tried all.

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I tried the Bookworm minimal and Bookworm IoT and Zephyr.

Seth