oroppas
December 16, 2023, 9:11am
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Hi,
My understanding is that BeagleV-Fire is equipped with WiFi module according to Table 78 on
https://docs.beagleboard.org/latest/boards/beaglev/fire/01-introduction.html#beaglev-fire-introduction
How can I enable/use WiFi? I’m unable to find the documentation so far.
Any information or pointers will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Vauban
December 16, 2023, 10:15am
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BeagleV-Fire has one M.2 connector keyed for wireless module (connector key E). However, you need to get a wireless module separately.
oroppas
December 16, 2023, 1:30pm
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Thanks for the info. I’ll look into more details.
platima
February 25, 2024, 5:44pm
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Don’t get an AX210. I spent half a day trying to get it working with all module variations, firmwares and driver compiles, but to no avail.
That being said the M.2 gateware was 0.3.0, they might have fixed something that makes it work with 0.4.0… will test
platima:
Don’t get an AX210.
can you please share a photo of the id number on the module? I’ve got a few of these…
Regards,
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platima
February 26, 2024, 12:18am
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Got it working - cape gateware 0.3.0 was giving me the pain it seems. Noticed 0.4.0 was included in the image, flashed it and rebooted, and the wifi works!
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esmar
March 27, 2024, 12:48am
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Hi,
I recenly got the beagleV-Fire board and I am trying to setup a wifi connection. So, I
I flashed the latest image from Latest Software Images - BeagleBoard named beaglev-fire-ubuntu-23.04-20231121.zip but when I boot the new image I still see the gateware to be 0.3.0 :
$ uname -r
6.1.33-linux4microchip+fpga-2023.06-20231121+
$ cat /proc/device-tree/chosen/overlays/DEFAULT-CAPE-GATEWARE
BVF-0.3.0-7-gfd28a2c
Is there a newer image than that listed in the distros url above or to upgrade the gateware I need to use a different image.
Thank you.
Hi @esmar
So you can update the image via:
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Then gateware can be updated via:
beagle@BeagleV:/usr/share/beagleboard/gateware$ ls
board-tests change-gateware.sh default minimal robotics version.txt
beagle@BeagleV:/usr/share/beagleboard/gateware$ sudo ./change-gateware.sh default
(board will reboot)
Next update kernel image via:
wget https://beaglev-fire.beagleboard.io/BeagleV-Fire-ubuntu/get_kernel_update.sh
chmod +x ./get_kernel_update.sh
sudo ./get_kernel_update.sh
Otherwise we have daily builds. (apt update/upgrade will pretty much do the same thing)… Jobs · BeagleV-Fire / BeagleV-Fire-ubuntu · GitLab
Regards,
esmar
March 27, 2024, 9:56am
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Hi Robert,
That worked well. Thanks for sharing.
I got the gateware and kernel updated :
$ cat /proc/device-tree/chosen/overlays/DEFAULT-CAPE-GATEWARE
BVF-0.4.0-27-g7078de9
$ uname -r
6.1.33-linux4microchip+fpga-2023.06-20240326+
Thank you!
I believe the OP question is still open.
I would also very much like to know what configuration variant is used here…
Everything else under the sun has been discussed,
except how to actually configure wlan0
.