Archive for the month May 2009

  
May
24

Building a Custom Debian Kernel for the BeagleBoard

While trying to get my WIFI dongle to work with the BeagleBoard, I noticed that the dongle’s module was not compiled into the kernel. So I had to build a new kernel from scratch. Since building a new kernel under the BeagleBoard will take a LOT of time, I decided to cross-compile a kernel for [...]

by Lior Chen on May 24th, 2009 in Embedded Linux, Linux6 Comments »
May
03

Installing Embedded Debian on the BeagleBoard

The following post describes installing EABI Debian (Embedded Application Binary Interface Debian) on the BeagleBoard. Debian is my favorite distribution, I’ve been using it for nearly 13 years, so sticking with it on the embedded platform comes only natural for me. SD Card preperation The BeagleBoard supports the new SD 2.0 (SDHC) format, so I [...]

by Lior Chen on May 3rd, 2009 in Linux4 Comments »