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Here is the meta-intel-edison that builds, tries to stay up to date. Master is based on Yocto Poky Gatesgarth LTS 5.10.yy vanilla kernels. It builds a 32bit kernel (Gatesgarth branch 64bit) with ACPI enabled and corresponding rootfs. Telegram group: https://t.me/IntelEdison Web-site:
https://edison-fw.github.io/meta-intel-edison/
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configure_edison #81

Closed mwallnoefer closed 4 years ago

mwallnoefer commented 4 years ago

The cmdline tool _configureedison doesn't work properly any more. For instance you aren't able to set up a wifi connection using configure_edison --wifi which had been a neat feature in the past.

Checking the sources under https://github.com/intel/edison-oobe/blob/master/src/configure_edison revealed that there no longer exists an interfaces file (apparently no network service) and also no hostapd service. Further it seems that some paths have been changed (lines 473 till 476 /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf).

No idea if it makes sense to maintain this tool or better to look for an alternative.

htot commented 4 years ago

I'm working on this (it is coming from the oobe or out-of-the-box-experience repo https://github.com/intel/edison-oobe).

The CLI is not very useful as you can, once you have a terminal, do everything from connmanctl these days. But there was also the web server version based on nodejs. I have ported all to python3, replaced web server by bottle. This will allow us to make initial connection over wifi AP or bluetooth tether and configure using browser. It still needs a little work though.

mwallnoefer commented 4 years ago

Ah okay - glad to hear that this still represents a priority for you. I just has this quick look at the Intel OOBE repo and said, "wow - three years without a commit, this cannot work".

And then I thought that also similar embdedded SoCs or SoMs suffer from the same problem (e.g. Raspberry Pis, Beagleboard etc. etc.); so a joint solution for Wifi, network, Bluetooth and hostname configuration should make sense.

htot commented 4 years ago

I didn't consider that, but I guess it should be possible to make oobe work on other platforms too. But for general purpose use, it will need additional work like https / session / passwords.

mwallnoefer commented 4 years ago

We may close this in favour of #32 .