ECE597 Software Setup

Here are instructions on how to set up your host computer and BeagleBoard.

Setting up Linux on your host computer

• Installing Ubuntu in VMware Player

Give to the community: Networking via Bridged I've been able to get networking via NAT working, but I don't know how to network via Bridged.

Give to the community: VMware Workstation I need instructions on installing using VMware workstation. Rose students can also get VMware Workstation for free, but they often run out of keys. Do this: go to Angel Login In the middle column click on ROSEportal. Click on the VMware Global Education on the top right.

VirtualBox supports hardware virtualization, so ensure it is enabled in your BIOS (most BIOS have it disabled by default). It is probably best to enable this before going any further. With this enabled, it is possible to allocate more then 1 cpu core to vbox. If you have a dual core laptop, this will cause your compiles to be much faster.

VBox WinXP Ubuntu Install Guide

Official Ubuntu VBox Guide

How to install VBox Tools in Ubuntu

Give to the community: Other Linux distros You are welcome to use Linux distributions other Ubuntu. If you do so, I may not be able to help you. Please document what you have to do differently when using your distro so others will benefit.

• ECE597 Mounting dfs/afs in Linux
• ECE597 Installing The Ångström Distribution for doing software development
• ECE597 Ångström directory layout
• ECE597 Cross-Development
• ECE597 Configuring the Kernel
• ECE597 Configuring BusyBox
• ECE597 Installing the Eclipse IDE
• ECE597 Installing DSP Development Tools
• DSPLink

Setting up your BeagleBoard

• Getting your Beagle running (precompiled)
• Getting your Beagle running (remote compiled)

Useful Windows Apps

• Notepad++ is a nice code editor.

Things I'm working on

Links I'm working on

Getting Started Hints

Here are some useful links of getting things going.

• Linux Hints for Beagle, hints on handling video and USB devices.
• Precompiled Angstrom Distribution, this is a good starting place to get Linux running on your Beagle. It's all pre-compiled and ready to run. The instructions below will point you to here.

--Prof. Yoder 15:26, 4 March 2010 (UTC)