You can also communicate with the Galileo via Wireless LAN. To do this, you'll need some additional hardware. The first piece of hardware you'll need is a mini PCI wireless device. The basic Galileo Poky operating system supports two devices: the Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 135 and Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N 6205 adapters. If you don't want to compile your own drivers, you should purchase one of these two devices.
If you wish to purchase a different mini PCI wireless device, see http://www.malinov.com/Home/sergey-s-blog/intelgalileo-addingwifi for how to compile drivers for your device.
You'll also need some cables and antennas. You'll need two 6dBi RPSMA antennas and two 8-inch UFL cables. There are kits available, for example at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DP64JRG. Also useful is a Half to Full Height Mini PCI Express (PCI-E) Card Bracket Adapter, this makes the wireless card easier to install. Once you've gathered all the hardware, install the card into the Galileo. It is straightforward but, if you get confused, follow the instructions at http://ionospherics.com/intel-galileo-setting-up-wifi/ to install all the hardware into the Galileo. Here is what it should look like:
Once you have the wireless hardware setup, you'll also need a cable to establish a terminal connection to the Linux operating system on your device. For the Intel Galileo Gen2 board, the cable you will need is a USB connector on one end and a FDTI 6 pin connector on the other. These are available at most online electronics stores:
If you are using the Galileo Gen1 board, this is 3.5mm to USB cable. Plug this cable into the terminal port on the Galileo, and the USB connector on your host computer.
Now that you have all the hardware, here are the steps to get your Galileo up and connected to Wi-Fi:
.tar
file (an archived file) with the support for your wireless connection.If not already highlighted, select the second choice here to boot from the card.
ifconfig –a
. This should show all LAN interfaces, and should look like this:You can see the wlan0 interface that is now available to connect to your Wi-Fi network. However, there is no address assigned; as you can see, there is no inet addr:
line in the wlan0 section. You can use the IDE to connect to your network, this will be shown in the next section.
/etc/networks/config
. Edit this file using vi
(vi is the editor that comes on this Linux release.) Add auto wlan0
as the last line.Now that the hardware is connected, you can access the wireless capabilities inside the IDE.
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