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Images to flash on your BeagleBone Black for use with the Bela cape.
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Integrate WiLink 8 (L18xxMOD) Single-Band Combo Module (Wifi/BT/BLE) #7

Open frantic0 opened 7 years ago

frantic0 commented 7 years ago

Any walkthrough on how to install? Would it be easy to integrate on the Bela image? It appears that the new BeagleBone Black Wireless also has the same module, it would be interesting to incorporate this.

http://www.ti.com/tool/wilink-sw

giuliomoro commented 7 years ago

It should be possible to install it (though it requires to have a copy of the kernel header files handy), but we need to sort out the pin incompatibility of the BBGW first: there would be little point in installing the driver if these wifi modules cannot be used in conjunction with the Bela cape.

frantic0 commented 7 years ago

Yes, I believe it isn't trivial. I took a peek at this.. Would you say that's the way?

WiLink8 Linux WL18xx_Build WL18xx_Platform_Integration TI_Bluetooth_Stack_forWL18xx

By the way, how's it going with the pin incompatibility? I'd expect that to be further away from trivial.

giuliomoro commented 7 years ago

It looks like this driver may be already available on Bela, but the device tree overlay needs to be edited in order for the wifi / bt modules to work AND be able to test the existing driver.

frantic0 commented 7 years ago

Ok, I'll be looking into that.