Beagle Bone Black
See Also: Mesh/Hardware Fourth Milestone
notes about BBB - Beagle Bone Black
OS Install
OpenWRT
Adafruit tutorial
https://learn.adafruit.com/beaglebone-black-installing-operating-systems/angstrom
first light
Just booting up...
using an FTDI device plugged into J1 pins
find the serial port for the FTDI USB adapter
ls /dev/tty*
- might be /dev/ttyAMA0 on linux
- might be /dev/tty.usbmodemfa133 on mac
Wiring from the FTDI device:
- BBB - FTDI
- pin 1 GND - GND
- pin 4 RX - TX
- pin 5 TX - RX
in terminal:
screen <usbdevicename> 115200
- first login with root, no password
Mesh the planet...
Configuring B.A.T.M.A.N to Mesh with Sudo Mesh
This tutorial assumes that you have your Beagle Bone configured running Debian Wheezy. It is all recommended that you disabel network-manager.
Add batman module to the kernel
modprobe batman-adv
Add B.A.T.M.A.N interface
batctl if add eth0
Disable Wifi
ifconfig wlan0 down
Set MTU
ifconfig wlan0 mtu 1532
Turn on Ad-Hoc Mode and connect to the SSID ppslopen.net-node2node with the Mac Address CA:FE:C0:DE:F0:0D on Channel 11
iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc essid pplsopen.net-node2node ap CA:FE:C0:DE:F0:0D channel 11
Connect B.A.T.M.A.N interface to Wlan
batctl if add wlan0
Turn on wlan0 and bat0 interfaces
ifconfig wlan0 up ifconfig bat0 up
Connect to your network. Subject to change depending on our network's subnet
ifconfig bat0 10.200.8.1 route add default gw 10.0.99.1
Enable Port Forwarding
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward