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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And it blinketh…
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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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You can download and use it for free from their website but you can’t change the desktop background and taskbar color etc without entering a license key
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You don't have to pay, just download the iso from the official website (microsoft.com/en-us/software), mount it and run the installer. If you have an activated W8 install then W10 will activate automatically.
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