Enabling the WiFi and BlueTooth on PandaBoard
There are some more information on this topic, but I did not test it my self at all. So, in a little while I will be add more details on that.
So far, I failed to do this! my only solution was to go back and install the full Ubuntu 11.04 as described above and it had everything working
Install SSH and Configure it to have a better security to be able to connect to the board later for development
- Open a terminal and make sure you update the system first
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade - sudo apt-get install
- Now, type sudo apt-get install ssh and confirm when asked to do the download
- Once it is done, you have ssh installed and running but we need to configure it to have a better security, why? because, someone on the net can be scanning for open ports and the default port for SSH, 22, is known to everyone. So we change it to random number to prevent anyone from hacking into our PandaBoard
- You need to edit file /etc/ssh/sshd_config "sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config"
- Find the port 22 and change it to some number that you can remember later
- Done, save the file and exit
- Restart ssh "sudo service ssh restart"
- From your host computer connect to PandaBoard "ssh -p portnumber ipaddress"
- Enter the new password for the currect user on your PandaBoard
- You are in!
Change you HostName of your PandaBoard
You might want to change your default hostname of your PandaBoard. Well, this is the name that your PandaBoard will have on the network, I am sure you want to have a unique name for your board. You do that by modifying the hostname file located in the /etc/
sudo nano /etc/hostname
You should see a file opened with a single line that represents your PandaBoard HostName
Now you can change this name make sure it is proper name that does not have spaces, etc..
Now save and exit the file Ctrl-x then hit y for yes to save the file
When you restart the board, you should be able to see this name on the network and on the Terminal prompt.
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