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you'll probably want to go to http://circuitco.com/support/index.php?title=Updating_The_Software and get the latest software image (2013.05.3 as of now) before trying to do anything with opkg

you'll probably want to go to http://circuitco.com/support/index.php?title=Updating_The_Software and get the latest software image (2013.05.3 as of now) before trying to do anything with opkg

Something must have been wrong with the build.  Looks like they pulled it.  I can see it in the change history so you're not a liar

a post in the google group suggests it's available here http://dominion.thruhere.net/koen/angstrom/beaglebone/?C=M;O=D from the person who builds the images, as a couple of others have posted that it's vanished off the official page. There's a newer image up on that site too.

Teething troubles can only be expected at this stage especially as more people get their hands on them.  Still it would be nice if they'd added a "pulled because of...." message so that people who've installed it already know what to expect.

I'm not a fan of forums at the best of times, but that google groups thing they're using is awful, and the general mixture of beagleboard, beaglebone and beaglebone-black stuff leaves you never quite sure if what you're reading even applies to your board.

selsinork wrote:

 

that google groups thing they're using is awful, and the general mixture of beagleboard, beaglebone and beaglebone-black stuff leaves you never quite sure if what you're reading even applies to your board.

Totally agree with both of those points.

It would be easy enough for us to make a dedicated BeagleBone (or even more specific BBB) group here to categorize information more clearly, but I suspect that the upstream info isn't ever going to get any clearer because the BeagleBoard old timers have grown up with their pre-AM3358 gear and probably don't see any issue.

The present single thread isn't helping either --- all this info is going to get submerged and lost very quickly.  The problem is particularly acute for beginners, who are faced with a long thread to navigate and no way to title their own posts to highlight their question.  Nobody is benefiting from this.

We really ought to be capitalizing on Element 14's effective group system for BB[B].  It has worked out very well for Raspberry Pi, and is likely to prove equally useful for managing info and discussions about BBB better than is being done at present.

Morgaine.

selsinork wrote:

 

that google groups thing they're using is awful, and the general mixture of beagleboard, beaglebone and beaglebone-black stuff leaves you never quite sure if what you're reading even applies to your board.

Totally agree with both of those points.

It would be easy enough for us to make a dedicated BeagleBone (or even more specific BBB) group here to categorize information more clearly, but I suspect that the upstream info isn't ever going to get any clearer because the BeagleBoard old timers have grown up with their pre-AM3358 gear and probably don't see any issue.

The present single thread isn't helping either --- all this info is going to get submerged and lost very quickly.  The problem is particularly acute for beginners, who are faced with a long thread to navigate and no way to title their own posts to highlight their question.  Nobody is benefiting from this.

We really ought to be capitalizing on Element 14's effective group system for BB[B].  It has worked out very well for Raspberry Pi, and is likely to prove equally useful for managing info and discussions about BBB better than is being done at present.

Morgaine.

Morgaine Dinova wrote:

 

The present single thread isn't helping either --- all this info is going to get submerged and lost very quickly.  The problem is particularly acute for beginners, who are faced with a long thread to navigate and no way to title their own posts to highlight their question.  Nobody is benefiting from this.

Yeah, unfortunately while we only have a BBB discussion area that's buried in the bowels of the knode and therefore hard to find it's difficult to do a lot about it. The title of this thread probably doesn't help either.

Until the Admins decide to create a top level BBB group I think we're stuck.