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Raspberry Pi with Adafruit PiTFT screen

Just followed the steps in the tutorial to get the modified kernel installed with support for Adafruit’s PiTFT and it all worked great.

What I’m going to be using it for is to monitor status output from Direwolf as it receives/sends packets, so will be running it in text mode, and ideally I want to get Direwolf and LinBPQ starting together at boot, and outputing to the console.

I’ve almost got the startup script working (following suggestions here), but I might take a look to see if I can redirect output to one of the virtual terminals and have that output to the screen (like discussed here). Some more things to take a look at 🙂

fbtext – this might be useful too.

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Configuring a static IP for Raspbian/Debian Jessie

Looks like on Raspbian Jessie the way you configure a static IP has changed. You used to configure static IPs in /etc/network/interfaces, but on Jessie it looks like the file to edit is now /etc/dhcpcd.conf (per the comment at the top of the prior file).

Scroll to the end of the file and paste something like this, editing IPs to match your network:

interface eth0
static ip_address=192.168.1.xxx/24
static routers=192.168.1.xxx
static domain_name_servers=8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4

Reboot, done.

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Building autogen based source on Ubuntu and derivatives

 

Install build tools:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Install autogen tools:

sudo apt-get install autogen

In project source:

./autogen.sh

If you get errors like this:

configure.ac:25: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

… then also install libtool

sudo apt-get install libtool

Then build and install as normal:

./configure
make
sudo make install

 

 

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