Tool/software: Linux
Hardware:
- BeagleBone Black Wireless with OCTAVO OSD3358 SIP.
- This board has a WLINK1835 Wi-Fi module. (https://beagleboard.org/black-wireless)
Software
- Installed Debian 9.5 2018-10-07 4GB SD IoT from http://beagleboard.org/latest-images
- This Debian image comes with Linux kernel 4.14.71-r80-ti
My question is in regards to Mesh Wi-Fi via Wilink8.
- Does this OS image com pre-installed with the drivers and other software necessary to configure a mesh network using Wilink8? It appears that this OS image comes with the wlink drivers installed but I haven't found a definitive source to confirm this. My findings have been via the following:
$ uname -a Linux beaglebone 4.14.71-ti-r80 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 5 23:50:11 UTC 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux $ lsmod | grep wl wl18xx 110592 0 wlcore 237568 1 wl18xx mac80211 696320 2 wl18xx,wlcore cfg80211 622592 3 wl18xx,wlcore,mac80211 wlcore_sdio 16384 0 $ ls /lib/firmware/ti-connectivity/ TIInit_11.8.32.bts wl1271-fw-2.bin wl127x-fw-4-plt.bin wl127x-nvs.bin wl128x-fw-5-plt.bin wl12xx-nvs.bin TIInit_6.2.31.bts wl1271-fw-ap.bin wl127x-fw-4-sr.bin wl128x-fw-3.bin wl128x-fw-5-sr.bin wl18xx-conf.bin TIInit_6.6.15.bts wl1271-fw.bin wl127x-fw-5-mr.bin wl128x-fw-4-mr.bin wl128x-fw-ap.bin wl18xx-fw-2.bin TIInit_7.2.31.bts wl1271-nvs.bin wl127x-fw-5-plt.bin wl128x-fw-4-plt.bin wl128x-fw.bin wl18xx-fw-3.bin wl1251-fw.bin wl127x-fw-3.bin wl127x-fw-5-sr.bin wl128x-fw-4-sr.bin wl128x-fw-plt-3.bin wl18xx-fw-4.bin wl1251-nvs.bin wl127x-fw-4-mr.bin wl127x-fw-plt-3.bin wl128x-fw-5-mr.bin wl128x-nvs.bin wl18xx-fw.bin
- What is a good resource to learn about how to configure a mesh network using Wilink8 on Linux? This thread shows some attempt to setup a mesh network but the discussion is incomplete.