Recommended Wi-Fi/BT adapter for xM

I'm looking for Wi-Fi b/g/n and bluetooth hardware to plug into the
BeagleBoard-xM to support various levels of network development from
driver through application. The BeagleBoardToys homepage seems to
have a wl1271-based Beagle wlan adapter that might suit, except when I
click on "Buy" I end up at the BoardZoo ULCD7 page, and BoardZoo
doesn't list the wlan adapter.

Can this still be purchased? How? If not, or if there are better
options, could somebody suggest a vendor for an adapter board with
wifi b/g/n and bluetooth, or suggest compatible USB dongles (or ones
to avoid)?

Thanks.

Peter

The BeagleBoardToys WLAN supposedly is plug and play with the Angstrom image supplied with the BB. Most people seem to have problems with it and have difficulty getting it to work with other Linux distributions (Ubuntu) or Android. BeagleBoardToys seems to have temporarily taken it from the market or are out of stock.

Some folks here seem to have had reasonable success with USB Wi-Fi such as Belkin but often report inconsistent service.

Mark.

Hello Beagle Community

I baught a Beagle Board Rev C5 recently.

I am not able to run the linux on it.

I am getting kernel panic. Please see the serial output below.
I also tried mmcinit and fatload commands but it doesnot detect my SD card.
I have tried with 2 different SD cards.

Anybody can help please?

Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.5.0 (Jun 14 2011 - 22:04:07)

Beagle Rev C5

Loading u-boot.bin from nand

U-Boot 2011.03-rc1-00000-g9a3cc57-dirty (Apr 01 2011 - 17:41:42)

OMAP3530-GP ES3.1, CPU-OPP2, L3-165MHz, Max CPU Clock 720 mHz

OMAP3 Beagle board + LPDDR/NAND

I2C: ready

DRAM: 256 MiB

NAND: 512 MiB

MMC: OMAP SD/MMC: 0

In: serial

Out: serial

Err: serial

Beagle Rev C4

timed out in wait_for_pin: I2C_STAT=0

No EEPROM on expansion board

Die ID #69a80004000000000403a38101009016

Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0

NAND read: device 0 offset 0x280000, size 0x400000

4194304 bytes read: OK

## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 80200000 ...

   Image Name: Angstrom/2.6.32/beagleboard

   Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)

   Data Size: 3203048 Bytes = 3.1 MiB

   Load Address: 80008000

   Entry Point: 80008000

   Verifying Checksum ... OK

   Loading Kernel Image ... OK

OK

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing
Linux.......................................................................
............................................................................
.............................................................. done, booting
the kernel.

[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.32 (koen@dominion) (gcc version 4.3.3 (GCC)
) #3 PREEMPT Thu Jun 23 09:56:19 CEST 2011

[ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [411fc083] revision 3 (ARMv7),
cr=10c53c7f

[ 0.000000] CPU: VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT nonaliasing
instruction cache

[ 0.000000] Machine: OMAP3 Beagle Board

[ 0.000000] Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback

[ 0.000000] OMAP3430/3530 ES3.1 (l2cache iva sgx neon isp 720m )

[ 0.000000] SRAM: Mapped pa 0x40200000 to va 0xfe400000 size: 0x100000

[ 0.000000] Reserving 14680064 bytes SDRAM for VRAM

[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total
pages: 65024

[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS2,115200n8 console=tty0
root=/dev/mtdblock4 rw rootfstype=jffs2 nohz=off

[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072
bytes)

[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)

[ 0.000000] Memory: 256MB = 256MB total

[ 0.000000] Memory: 238336KB available (5900K code, 673K data, 204K init,
0K highmem)

[ 0.000000] Hierarchical RCU implementation.

[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:402

[ 0.000000] Clocking rate (Crystal/Core/MPU): 26.0/332/500 MHz

[ 0.000000] Reprogramming SDRC clock to 332000000 Hz

[ 0.000000] GPMC revision 5.0

[ 0.000000] IRQ: Found an INTC at 0xfa200000 (revision 4.0) with 96
interrupts

[ 0.000000] Total of 96 interrupts on 1 active controller

[ 0.000000] OMAP GPIO hardware version 2.5

[ 0.000000] OMAP clockevent source: GPTIMER12 at 32768 Hz

[ 0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x30

[ 0.000000] console [tty0] enabled

[ 0.000000] Calibrating delay loop... 496.77 BogoMIPS (lpj=1937408)

[ 0.000000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512

[ 0.000000] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok

[ 0.000000] tmpfs: No value for mount option 'mode'

[ 0.000000] devtmpfs: initialized

[ 0.000000] regulator: core version 0.5

[ 0.000000] NET: Registered protocol family 16

[ 0.000000] OMAP3 Beagle Rev: C4

[ 0.000000] Found NAND on CS0

[ 0.000000] Registering NAND on CS0

[ 0.000000] Unable to get DVI reset GPIO

[ 13.210906] OMAP DMA hardware revision 4.0

[ 13.219940] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0

[ 13.221618] SCSI subsystem initialized

[ 13.223419] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs

[ 13.223663] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub

[ 13.223937] usbcore: registered new device driver usb

[ 13.224426] i2c_omap i2c_omap.1: bus 1 rev3.12 at 2600 kHz

[ 13.227630] twl4030: PIH (irq 7) chaining IRQs 368..375

[ 13.227722] twl4030: power (irq 373) chaining IRQs 376..383

[ 13.228118] twl4030: gpio (irq 368) chaining IRQs 384..401

[ 13.229858] regulator: VUSB1V5: 1500 mV normal standby

[ 13.230163] regulator: VUSB1V8: 1800 mV normal standby

[ 13.230529] regulator: VUSB3V1: 3100 mV normal standby

[ 13.234710] twl4030_usb twl4030_usb: Initialized TWL4030 USB module

[ 13.235290] regulator: VMMC1: 1850 <--> 3150 mV normal standby

[ 13.235656] regulator: VDAC: 1800 mV normal standby

[ 13.235992] regulator: VPLL2: 1800 mV normal standby

[ 13.236358] regulator: VSIM: 1800 <--> 3000 mV normal standby

[ 13.236816] regulator: VAUX3: 1800 mV normal standby

[ 13.237274] regulator: VAUX4: 1800 mV normal standby

[ 13.237487] i2c_omap i2c_omap.2: bus 2 rev3.12 at 400 kHz

[ 13.248687] i2c_omap i2c_omap.3: bus 3 rev3.12 at 100 kHz

[ 13.250274] Switching to clocksource 32k_counter

[ 13.262786] musb_hdrc: version 6.0, musb-dma, otg (peripheral+host),
debug=0

[ 13.263183] musb_hdrc: USB OTG mode controller at fa0ab000 using DMA, IRQ
92

[ 13.263244] musb_hdrc musb_hdrc: MUSB HDRC host driver

[ 13.263427] musb_hdrc musb_hdrc: new USB bus registered, assigned bus
number 1

[ 13.263641] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002

[ 13.263671] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2,
SerialNumber=1

[ 13.263732] usb usb1: Product: MUSB HDRC host driver

[ 13.263793] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.32 musb-hcd

[ 13.263824] usb usb1: SerialNumber: musb_hdrc

[ 13.264678] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found

[ 13.264739] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected

[ 13.266235] NET: Registered protocol family 2

[ 13.266540] IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192
bytes)

[ 13.267272] TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536
bytes)

[ 13.267578] TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)

[ 13.267730] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)

[ 13.267791] TCP reno registered

[ 13.267822] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

[ 13.267883] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

[ 13.268249] NET: Registered protocol family 1

[ 13.268798] RPC: Registered udp transport module.

[ 13.268859] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.

[ 13.268890] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.

[ 13.270080] omap-iommu omap-iommu.0: isp registered

[ 13.272277] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2

[ 13.272430] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)

[ 13.273925] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher

[ 13.275024] JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (SUMMARY) C 2001-2006 Red Hat,
Inc.

[ 13.276092] msgmni has been set to 465

[ 13.281524] alg: No test for stdrng (krng)

[ 13.282012] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded
(major 254)

[ 13.282073] io scheduler noop registered

[ 13.282135] io scheduler deadline registered

[ 13.282348] io scheduler cfq registered (default)

[ 13.344299] OMAP DSS rev 2.0

[ 13.344390] OMAP DISPC rev 3.0

[ 13.344482] OMAP VENC rev 2

[ 13.344787] OMAP DSI rev 1.0

[ 13.685058] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled

[ 13.706542] serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x4806a000 (irq = 72) is a
ST16654

[ 13.727111] serial8250.1: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x4806c000 (irq = 73) is a
ST16654

[ 13.747680] serial8250.2: ttyS2 at MMIO 0x49020000 (irq = 74) is a
ST16654

[ 14.291870] console [ttyS2] enabled

[ 14.304382] brd: module loaded

[ 14.311859] loop: module loaded

[ 14.316680] omap2-nand driver initializing

[ 14.321228] NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0x2c, Chip ID: 0xbc (Micron
NAND 512MiB 1,8V 16-bit)

[ 14.330505] cmdlinepart partition parsing not available

[ 14.335815] Creating 5 MTD partitions on "omap2-nand":

[ 14.341064] 0x000000000000-0x000000080000 : "X-Loader"

[ 14.347778] 0x000000080000-0x000000260000 : "U-Boot"

[ 14.354553] 0x000000260000-0x000000280000 : "U-Boot Env"

[ 14.360931] 0x000000280000-0x000000680000 : "Kernel"

[ 14.368560] 0x000000680000-0x000020000000 : "File System"

[ 14.586914] usbcore: registered new interface driver catc

[ 14.592407] catc: v2.8:CATC EL1210A NetMate USB Ethernet driver

[ 14.598541] usbcore: registered new interface driver kaweth

[ 14.604217] pegasus: v0.6.14 (2006/09/27), Pegasus/Pegasus II USB
Ethernet driver

[ 14.611938] usbcore: registered new interface driver pegasus

[ 14.617706] rtl8150: v0.6.2 (2004/08/27):rtl8150 based usb-ethernet
driver

[ 14.624755] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8150

[ 14.630615] usbcore: registered new interface driver asix

[ 14.636230] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ether

[ 14.642272] usbcore: registered new interface driver dm9601

[ 14.648040] usbcore: registered new interface driver smsc95xx

[ 14.654022] usbcore: registered new interface driver gl620a

[ 14.659790] usbcore: registered new interface driver net1080

[ 14.665679] usbcore: registered new interface driver plusb

[ 14.671356] usbcore: registered new interface driver rndis_host

[ 14.677490] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_subset

[ 14.683624] usbcore: registered new interface driver zaurus

[ 14.689392] usbcore: registered new interface driver MOSCHIP usb-ethernet
driver

[ 14.697723] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver

[ 14.704681] ehci-omap ehci-omap.0: OMAP-EHCI Host Controller

[ 14.710784] ehci-omap ehci-omap.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus
number 2

[ 14.718536] ehci-omap ehci-omap.0: irq 77, io mem 0x48064800

[ 14.734832] ehci-omap ehci-omap.0: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00

[ 14.740783] usb usb2: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002

[ 14.747711] usb usb2: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2,
SerialNumber=1

[ 14.755035] usb usb2: Product: OMAP-EHCI Host Controller

[ 14.760437] usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.32 ehci_hcd

[ 14.765899] usb usb2: SerialNumber: ehci-omap.0

[ 14.771392] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found

[ 14.775268] hub 2-0:1.0: 3 ports detected

[ 14.805267] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...

[ 14.810424] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage

[ 14.816558] USB Mass Storage support registered.

[ 14.821685] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

[ 14.827453] input: gpio-keys as /devices/platform/gpio-keys/input/input0

[ 14.835601] input: twl4030_pwrbutton as
/devices/platform/i2c_omap.1/i2c-1/1-0049/twl4030_pwrbutton/input/input1

[ 14.846496] i2c /dev entries driver

[ 14.850891] Linux video capture interface: v2.00

[ 14.855957] omap-iommu omap-iommu.0: isp: version 1.1

[ 14.863250] vpfe_init

[ 14.866241] OMAP Watchdog Timer Rev 0x31: initial timeout 60 sec

[ 14.873229] cpuidle: using governor ladder

[ 14.877471] cpuidle: using governor menu

[ 14.921722] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual
address 00000014

[ 14.929931] pgd = c0004000

[ 14.932647] [00000014] *pgd=00000000

[ 14.936279] Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] PREEMPT

[ 14.940948] last sysfs file:

[ 14.943939] Modules linked in:

[ 14.947052] CPU: 0 Not tainted (2.6.32 #3)

[ 14.951568] PC is at musb_interrupt+0x9f8/0xbb8

[ 14.956146] LR is at musb_interrupt+0x9e4/0xbb8

[ 14.960723] pc : [<c033eb74>] lr : [<c033eb60>] psr: 60000193

[ 14.960723] sp : c0627ee0 ip : c0627f18 fp : 000000f0

[ 14.972320] r10: 00000000 r9 : 00000099 r8 : 00000009

[ 14.977600] r7 : 00000000 r6 : cf82f108 r5 : 00000001 r4 : 00000000

[ 14.984191] r3 : 00000000 r2 : 00000000 r1 : fa0ab000 r0 : cf82f108

[ 14.990783] Flags: nZCv IRQs off FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment
kernel

[ 14.998260] Control: 10c5387d Table: 80004019 DAC: 00000017

[ 15.004058] Process swapper (pid: 0, stack limit = 0xc06262f0)

[ 15.009948] Stack: (0xc0627ee0 to 0xc0628000)

[ 15.014343] 7ee0: c0626000 c0641950 358526f0 00000000 3515dbec cf82f108
60000113 cf8a1940

[ 15.022613] 7f00: c0626000 0000005c 00000000 00000000 c066e320 c033ed98
c0627f48 cf8a1940

[ 15.030883] 7f20: c063b5a8 c00a3ddc 00000000 cf8a1940 c063b5a8 0000005c
00000002 00000001

[ 15.039154] 7f40: c0626000 0000001f 00000000 c00a5ed4 0000005c 00000000
c0629e84 c003b074

[ 15.047424] 7f60: 411fc083 ffffffff fa200000 c003bb44 00000000 80000013
80000013 00000000

[ 15.055694] 7f80: c0626000 c0629fe0 c0629e84 c067230c 8002f43c 411fc083
0000001f 00000000

[ 15.063964] 7fa0: 00000016 c0627fbc c003cac0 c003cac8 60000013 ffffffff
00000000 c003cfa4

[ 15.072235] 7fc0: 00000000 c06b94e0 c06722d0 c0031010 c0629e78 c0008984
c0008498 00000000

[ 15.080474] 7fe0: 00000000 c0031010 10c53c7d c0672360 c0031414 80008034
00000000 00000000

[ 15.088775] [<c033eb74>] (musb_interrupt+0x9f8/0xbb8) from [<c033ed98>]
(generic_interrupt+0x64/0x98)

[ 15.098083] [<c033ed98>] (generic_interrupt+0x64/0x98) from [<c00a3ddc>]
(handle_IRQ_event+0xac/0x1ec)

[ 15.107513] [<c00a3ddc>] (handle_IRQ_event+0xac/0x1ec) from [<c00a5ed4>]
(handle_level_irq+0xbc/0x148)

[ 15.116943] [<c00a5ed4>] (handle_level_irq+0xbc/0x148) from [<c003b074>]
(asm_do_IRQ+0x74/0x98)

[ 15.125732] [<c003b074>] (asm_do_IRQ+0x74/0x98) from [<c003bb44>]
(__irq_svc+0x44/0xa8)

[ 15.133819] Exception stack(0xc0627f70 to 0xc0627fb8)

[ 15.138916] 7f60: 00000000 80000013
80000013 00000000

[ 15.147186] 7f80: c0626000 c0629fe0 c0629e84 c067230c 8002f43c 411fc083
0000001f 00000000

[ 15.155456] 7fa0: 00000016 c0627fbc c003cac0 c003cac8 60000013 ffffffff

[ 15.162139] [<c003bb44>] (__irq_svc+0x44/0xa8) from [<c003cac8>]
(default_idle+0x28/0x2c)

[ 15.170410] [<c003cac8>] (default_idle+0x28/0x2c) from [<00000000>] (0x0)

[ 15.177276] Code: e3530003 13a02000 05963078 05933018 (05d33014)

[ 15.183532] ---[ end trace 695a67271f5afb47 ]---

[ 15.188232] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

Thanks & Regards

Tarun Chaplot

Senior Application Engineer