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I absolutely love my beaglebone, aside from some issues with the Linux drivers for the USB host port, it's been very reliable and useful. To date, I've used my

I absolutely love my beaglebone, aside from some issues with the Linux drivers for the USB host port, it's been very reliable and useful. To date, I've used my beaglebone to - stream live video of my baby kittens from the window well they were born in outdoors (their mom was a feral cat, I used the video stream to keep track of them until they could be rescued and brought inside) - transparently encrypt USB drives using the client+host ports [1] - use the onboard hardware RNG and some custom python[2] to supply entropy to other boxes on the local network - use it as an offline environment to perform sensitive PGP and CA signing operations And I'm toying with the idea of building some kind of open source network/USB connected hardware security module system with the BeagleBone as the reference platform to run it on. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8713155 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8713155 [2] https://github.com/infincia/netrng https://github.com/infincia/netrng

bootload 12y ago
"... I absolutely love my beaglebone, aside from some issues with the Linux drivers for the USB host port ..." How did you go installing Linux? What distro? Have you got wifi working?
- ChuckMcM 12y ago
  I grab the latest ubunutu of the elinux.org site, and Wifi works out of the box (with a generic Wifi USB device). You need to edit /etc/network/interfaces and make sure that you auto wlan0 and provide WPA passwords and what not.
  - bootload 12y ago
    thx @ChuckMcM I've only read about unstable installs - the only reason I want to try a beagle is the OpenBSD armv7 port http://www.openbsd.org/armv7.html http://www.openbsd.org/armv7.html can't see wifi though :(
  - stefanix 12y ago
    Do your research on what Wifi devices to use. Many don't work and others are unstable causing agony and frustration like a thousand burning suns. After all you rely on drivers that compile perfectly on ARM. This one works well: TP-LINK TL-WN722N

bootload 12y ago

"... I absolutely love my beaglebone, aside from some issues with the Linux drivers for the USB host port ..." How did you go installing Linux? What distro? Have you got wifi working?

ChuckMcM 12y ago
I grab the latest ubunutu of the elinux.org site, and Wifi works out of the box (with a generic Wifi USB device). You need to edit /etc/network/interfaces and make sure that you auto wlan0 and provide WPA passwords and what not.
- bootload 12y ago
  thx @ChuckMcM I've only read about unstable installs - the only reason I want to try a beagle is the OpenBSD armv7 port http://www.openbsd.org/armv7.html http://www.openbsd.org/armv7.html can't see wifi though :(
- stefanix 12y ago
  Do your research on what Wifi devices to use. Many don't work and others are unstable causing agony and frustration like a thousand burning suns. After all you rely on drivers that compile perfectly on ARM. This one works well: TP-LINK TL-WN722N