Off to an inauspicious start with the Beaglebone Blue. The network drivers won’t install on MacOS Catalina. Apparently the packages, HoRNDIS and EnergiaFTDIDrivers (no idea what they do… ELI5?) do shady shit at system level so Catalina sez no.
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But yay it installs fine on my wife’s older MBP which is still running High Sierra. Got it up and running, turned on wifi, updated Debian, downloaded the robotics cape repo…
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I am kinda gonna skip lightly over this networking jankiness for now and keep borrowing wife's computer when I need to play with this board, but I need to get a better solution soon. But good enough to not get distracted from main goal of getting rover running.
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Apparently the HoRNDIS is a random USB tethering package. Which I shouldn't need now that I have WiFi...? But I still can't connect to it from my own computer.
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The other drivers are Energia FTDI... FTDI is also some sort of chip used for tethering...
Okay, I have no idea how any of this works, so am just going to put a pin in it and move on.
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Found an old window crapbook that we haven’t used or updated since 2017… gonna try and see if it can be repurposed as a lab computer
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Ok this is on windows 8 and apparently you have to pay to get windows 10 now? Wtf? I thought it was free…
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Ok this laptop necromancy forked off to another thread. Will update here if I’m able to connect to beaglebone blue with it.
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Linux mavens… what distro would you run on this old asus atom-based netbook (currently trying to install windows 10 on it… booted it for the first time since 2017)
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Try this. HoRNDIS seems for USB tethering. FTDI is the driver for USB to serial converter
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thanks will try eventually though managed to get up and running on wife's computer... the FTDI also does not install, so I'll need a workaround for that too I assume. Sounds like HoRNDS is the OS level thing and FTDI driver is for the specific chip that handles the tethering?
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