Hummingboard - How to use Images

Russell Haley russ.haley at gmail.com
Wed Oct 28 04:53:55 UTC 2015


Ha ha. I've spent weeks pouring over my own build trying to make it work. I
was even trying to figure out how to get the kernel debugger working. I had
the latest image booted in less than 30 minutes.

Okay, so I've booted but no wi-fi adapter.  What kernel module do I load
for the wi-fi?

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 9:42 PM, John Little <sbi.gaijin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yup, it's all rolled in there.  Easy (once you get past the messed-up dtb
> file name).
>
>
> On 28 October 2015 at 10:02, Russell Haley <russ.haley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sweet! So u-boot is already part of the image?
>>
>> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Koodo network.
>> *From: *John Little
>> *Sent: *Tuesday, October 27, 2015 6:07 AM
>> *To: *russ.haley at gmail.com
>> *Subject: *Re: Hummingboard - How to use Images
>>
>> Russ,
>>
>>    "dd"ing with no special options should work okay.  I think you already
>> know
>>    about the DTB file-name problem which Ian talked about a while back.
>>    I haven't tried the latest builds (late October) from the web site
>> yet, so that
>>    might already be fixed, but just in case, here's some info on the
>> CuBox-i4p
>>    which is basically the same hardware:-
>>
>>
>> https://esp8266hints.wordpress.com/2015/10/23/a-non-esp8266-aside-getting-freebsd-10-2-to-boot-on-the-cubox-i4p/
>>
>>    You can check the exact spelling of the DTB file-names using "ls
>> .boot/dtb" from
>>    the loader prompt.
>>
>>
>>                                               -John-
>>
>>
>>
>


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