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I just recreated the problem, and once again rebooting fixed it. For reasons I do not want to dwell on, I needed to flash another image to the BBB (wifi issues with the blasted thing). So I attempted dd on the same card again, and got the same error. At this point, I thought that maybe there was som...

No, my narrative does not include multiple reboots. That's my point. It had been several days since the laptop on which I was running the dd command had been rebooted. The original card works fine so far. I dd-ed the *.img to it, and flashed to the BBB with no issues. In fact, in the last couple of ...

This is weird...it works now. My guess is that rebooting fixed it somehow. I started off trying to address questions people posted (without having rebooted yet). To address dasein's questions... He wants to know what happens if I try putting old.img onto the sd card. That did work once, but not now:...

Fair enough on the "yesterdays," but it's pretty straightforward. Here's what I did, and which worked. * Download "bone-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-03-19-4gb.img.xz" and ran unxz on it. Exactly what this is is not relevant to the problem, but it's a disk image to be flashed to a Be...

I am trying to write a disk image to an SD card using dd if=./whatever.img of=/dev/sdb but it returns dd: writing to '/dev/sdb': No space left on device Yes, I did umount before calling dd. The file is only 3.4G, while the card is 16G. In fact, df -h reports that the card has 15G available. The card...

I'm trying to set up a USB adapter for wifi on a Beaglebone Black, but having no success. Supposedly, the ground plane for the HDMI port can interfere with the wifi signal, so the adapter is on a cable a couple of feet from the BBB, and the router is five or six feet away (i.e., signal strength shou...

That makes sense (about backports) since I installed codeblocks before attempting to install libgtk-3-dev. As I recall, CB is only available as a backport if you're running jessie. That is, CB was installed with apt-get -t jessie-backports install codeblocks At least, I assume that's the cause since...

I feel like you keep bringing me to the water, and I don't even see that there's water there for me to drink. I apologize for that. Let me see if I understand what you're proposing. Write and build the code however I normally would using my usual toolchain. When I want to run it on BBB, there is a w...

I've made some progress, but not as much as I thought I would. Jodal omitted a critical step, which is so obvious I can't blame him. The steps given above should have been. mdkir ptest cd ptest apt-get source bc cd bc-1.06.95 OS=debian DIST=jessie ARCH=armhf pdebuild My (stupid) mistake was that you...

Wait...I am hot on the trail. Don't bother posting an answer to the previous when the question has a trivial solution. I'll post a followup once I'm sure everything works as it should.

I've run into an error that I can't make sense of -- pdebuild gives E: Cannot find ./debian file Here's what was done leading up to the error. Recall that the goal is to rebuild a package, using my i386 jessie machine, so that it will run on an armhf machine (Beaglebone Black). In particular, I need...

I've been pulled into other things for the past day or two, but I'm focusing on this now, and starting to figure out pbuilder. Thanks for the offer of further help and advice. I may need it...

Thanks. What you are trying to tell me is begining to sink in. I think I now see the role that pbuilder plays. If all of the installs had gone well -- as they did on my normal i386 toolchain -- then I wouldn't need pbuilder. But it should allow me to build these problematic packages from source with...

I'm trying to set up a cross-platform development environment to develop software on a i386 which is to run on an ARM (Beaglebone Black). In an earlier thread, http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=131337 stevepusser suggested looking into qemu and doing it in a virtual machine, which is ...

True enough -- I do need the armhf libraries for my program to link to when compiling the ARM version of the program, particularly since I am hoping to use static linking of everything the program uses. But I have yet to cross that bridge. Right now, the issue is that the i386 libraries are messed u...

The gist of my question is how to cross-compile from an i386 to ARM. It seems like different package installations are hiding previous installations, and the compiler can't find libraries, etc. I want to cross compile from an i386 machine running Debian 8.7.1 to an ARM machine (a Beaglebone Black, a...

Fair enough. I'll live with what I have for now, and maybe try Gentoo at some point down the road since a friend recommends it, and it ought to be able to solve the wireless problem.

Segfault, nothing prevents me from doing that, just like nothing prevents me from digging up some iron ore as the first step to building a car, although either would be a great learning exercise. I just want to get down to the task at hand, which is writing my own code, not messing with the OS. As f...

I have been unable to fix this problem. After fiddling with it for two days, I'll just accept that wireless does not work. For what I want to use this machine for, it's not that critical. For the occasional times I want to install a package, I can go to wired internet, and live with that. Thanks for...

I can't get wifi to work on a Dell Latitude D520, with bcm4311. Here's what I've done. This laptop had (and has) Puppy Linux on one partition, and wireless internet does work there. I installed jessie 8.7.1 on a new partition. During the install process, which was done from a USB stick with CD1 only...