Package installs without internet

[tom]

@sarahl The dongle's driver is most likely not built in to the kernel by default. What does lsusb show? It may show the name of the necessary driver.

[sarahl]

@tom this is what lsusb shows:
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 7392:b811 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd

[sarahl]

Separate question: so I have wifi hooked up on an RB5, but everytime I reboot, the ip address changes. Is there a way to change that? It doesn't seem to happen with my voxls (in station).

[tom]

@sarahl You'd probably be better off purchasing one of the dongles listed here: https://beta-docs.modalai.com/voxl2-wifidongle-user-guide/

It takes some work to integrate a new WiFi driver and isn't the most straight-forward thing to do.

[tom]

@sarahl As for static ip on RB5, I would check out this thread for more info: https://forum.modalai.com/topic/794/how-to-set-up-a-static-ip-in-rb5/17?_=1649955285381

[tom]

@sarahl It is a known bug with the Thundercomm SOMs.

[sarahl]

@tom thanks! we did put in an order for some, so hopefully I will get those soon. also thanks for the link, I'll check it out!

[sarahl]

So I'm trying to reflash the Voxl2, but the image listed in the docs (https://docs.modalai.com/voxl2-platform-release/#voxl2_platform_121-07) doesn't seem to be available on the downloads page, just 1.1.4. Is this available yet?

We've had issues installing the available system image (1.1.4) with/without the fastboot board, either with fastboot devices showing nothing, or getting an error like:

sudo ./flash-full.sh
[INFO] version: 0.0
[INFO] adb installed
[INFO] fastboot installed
[INFO] qti-ubuntu-robotics-image-qrb5165-rb5-boot.img present
[INFO] abl.elf present
[INFO] qti-ubuntu-robotics-image-qrb5165-rb5-sysfs.ext4 present
[INFO] Rebooting to fastboot bootloader
error: no devices/emulators found
[INFO] Flashing boot.img
target reported max download size of 805306368 bytes
sending 'boot_a' (20884 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.117s]
writing 'boot_a'...
OKAY [ 0.031s]
finished. total time: 0.148s
target reported max download size of 805306368 bytes
sending 'boot_b' (20884 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.111s]
writing 'boot_b'...
OKAY [ 0.024s]
finished. total time: 0.135s
[INFO] Flashing abl.elf
target reported max download size of 805306368 bytes
sending 'abl_a' (148 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.006s]
writing 'abl_a'...
OKAY [ 0.002s]
finished. total time: 0.008s
target reported max download size of 805306368 bytes
sending 'abl_b' (148 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.010s]
writing 'abl_b'...
OKAY [ 0.002s]
finished. total time: 0.012s
[INFO] Flashing sysfs.ext4
target reported max download size of 805306368 bytes
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 0.072s]
sending sparse 'system' 1/4 (784773 KB)...
OKAY [ 3.890s]
writing 'system' 1/4...
OKAY [ 0.000s]
sending sparse 'system' 2/4 (784403 KB)...
FAILED (data write failure (Cannot send after transport endpoint shutdown))
finished. total time: 7.594s

Edit: Actually, I got the fastboot image flashing to work on one board! But still wondering if this updated image is available, thanks!

[[[global:former-user]]]

We just uploaded the image to the downloads page, it can be found under the VOXL2 platform releases folder!

[sarahl]

@Alex-Gardner thanks so much!

[sarahl]

What's the best way to install full ROS melodic without all the voxl-suite packages being uninstalled due to dependency conflicts (e.g. opencv)?

[sarahl]

Also, how should mavros (px4.launch) be run with the internal px4 on the voxl2?