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PROCESSOR-SDK-AM437X: How to install wireless-tools offline?

hyungchul Kim
Prodigy 220 points

Part Number: PROCESSOR-SDK-AM437X

I want to use wifi modules in AM437x-GP-EVM.

TI provides several FS(file system) for EVM.

Unfortunately, they don't have wireless-tools module.

Therefore, I don't use some command like iwconfig etc.

I don't execute apt command as well. so I don't easily install modules that I want.

Could you explain me how to install wireless-tools into existing file system?

Thanks in advance.

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    TI__Mastermind 40910 points

    Hi,

    TI is not able to directly support adding utilities or packages to the root filesystems used by the SDK. I can provide a couple of suggestions though on how you could add the desired packages to the root filesystem.

    This link to documentation  describes how to build the TI SDK including the filesystems. The SDK build is based on yocto. For you to add your utility you will have to become familiar with yocto and how to use build recipes. Once you are able to build the SDK using yocto you could either find an existing recipe for the utility or you write your own for the utility you are trying to add. 

    A possible faster route would be if you can find the sources to the utility that you need you can add the sources to an SD card that has been setup with the TI file system on it. I would recommend when making SD card you use the tisdk rootfs filesystem as this will have the gcc native compiler on it. You would be able to build and install the utility directly on the EVM without having to worry about cross compiling. 

    Best Regards,

    Schuyler