BeagleBone Black

Got my BeagleBone Black a couple of days ago, messed around and didn't blog about what I was doing with it.  So far I have it plugged into the PC and set up putty on it.  Just exploring pretty much for now, I determined that it did have a version of Debian installed in the onboard 4GB MMC.  I had also ordered a 4GB SD Card that I don't really need, but now I have a nice 8GB of storage.

The most difficult trick was getting the WiFi dongle to work.  The rtl8192cu was already installed as was wpa_supplicant.  What worked for me:

/etc/network/interfaces:
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
    wpa-driver wext
    wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant

# WPA Network

network={

    ssid="oakridge"

    psk="my_password_here"

}