BasicLinuxFeaturesandAdministration
TerminalConnection
If you have connected the USB port to a laptop/USB, then you can use terminal software to log into the
Aaware embedded Linux environment. The terminal serial settings must be 115200,8N1 (115200 baud
rate, 8-bit, no parity bits, 1 stop bit). Once connected you will be logged in as root and will see a linux
prompt:
port is : /dev/ttyUSB1
...
Terminal ready
root@aawmz1:~# uname -a
Linux aawmz1 4.4.0-aawos+ #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 3 21:28:18 PDT 2017 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
root@aawmz1:~#
...
Note: you will automatically be logged in as root user.
WiFiSetup
The Aaware Linux platform is setup with a network WiFi interface as wlan0, as shown by the ifconfig
command below.
root@aawmz1:~# ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr e0:e5:cf:00:fb:93
inet addr:192.168.0.102 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::e2e5:cfff:fe00:fb93/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:200 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:41146 (41.1 KB) TX bytes:3842 (3.8 KB)
root@aawmz1:~#
To set this up for your own basic WiFi network, you can follow the steps below. For networks with more
