Install ATBen

Instructions on how to install ATBen can be found on the Qi-hardware Website. This page will attempt to explain and simply the various procedures by focusing only on the Nanonote. You can install the TCR images and binary files or compile them manually (this will require an Openwrt toolchain).

Install the ATBen and reflash your device using the images and binary files provided.

Use the script to download and reflash your ben.

wget http://theclashingrocks.org/images/reflash_ben_with_wpan_kernel.sh
sudo ./reflash_ben_with_wpan_kernel.sh

You can also download the u-boot, ben-wpan kernel, TCR rootfs and manually reflash the Ben.

wget http://theclashingrocks.org/images/openwrt-xburst-qi_lb60-u-boot.bin
wget http://theclashingrocks.org/images/uImage
wget http://theclashingrocks.org/images/openwrt-xburst-qi_lb60-root.ubi

In the same folder where you have downloaded the above files.

# first boot your nanonote in usbboot mode
sudo usbboot -c "boot;nerase 0 4096 0 0"
sudo usbboot -c "nprog 0 openwrt-xburst-qi_lb60-u-boot.bin 0 0 -n"
sudo usbboot -c "nprog 1024 uImage 0 0 -n"
sudo usbboot -c "nprog 2048 openwrt-xburst-qi_lb60-root.ubi 0 0 -n"

Download the libnl-1, linux-zigbee, and Dirtpan binary files.

wget http://theclashingrocks.org/images/wpan-binaries.tar.gz
tar xvzf wpan-binaries.tar.gz
cd wpan-binaries
scp libnl.so libnl.so.1  libnl.so.1.1 root@192.168.254.101:/usr/lib
scp iz izcoordinator izchat dirtpan root@192.168.254.101:/usr/sbin

opkg update
opkg install ip
mkdir -p /usr/local/var/run
exit

All instructions listed on this page are mandatory for the correct functionality of ATben, in addition you need to have a working OpenWrt toolchain in order to compile software and libraries.
NB: All the following procedures must be executed on the same terminal window.

Download the Qi-hardware kernel and build it on your machine.

git clone git://projects.qi-hardware.com/qi-kernel.git
cd qi-kernel
git checkout ben-wpan

Get the patch and configuration file from the Qi-hardware website and place them outside the qi-kernel directory for convenience sake.

cp ../ben-wpan-config-2.6.38 .config
patch -p1 -s <../openwrt-preinit-hack.patch

For CROSS_COMPILE you will need the path of your working toolchain. e.g. “export CROSS_COMPILE=/home/tcr/xburst-toolchain/staging_dir/toolchain-mipsel_gcc-linaro_uClibc-0.9.32/bin/mipsel-openwrt-linux-”.

export ARCH=mips
export CROSS_COMPILE=/path/to/your/mips/toolchain-

Make it.

make ARCH=$ARCH CROSS_COMPILE=$CROSS_COMPILE vmlinux.bin
gzip -9 -f arch/mips/boot/vmlinux.bin
mkimage -A mips -O linux -T kernel -a 0x80010000 -C gzip -e 0x`${CROSS_COMPILE}nm vmlinux | \
    grep " kernel_entry" | cut -f1 -d ' '` -n 'Ben NanoNote Linux Kernel' -d arch/mips/boot/vmlinux.bin.gz uImage
cd ..   

If everything went fine you will now have the qi-hardware kernel for the ben wpan.

It is now time to install the Kernel on you Nanonote. The qi-hardware instructions have different methods to install the kernel: by using nandwrite or usbboot mode (which is the easiest). Boot your device in usbboot mode and run this command and reboot.

# boot you nanonote in usbboot mode and erase everything
sudo usbboot -c "boot;nerase 0 4096 0 0"

# go to your toochain bin/xburst/ where the files are located and flash the u-boot
sudo usbboot -c "nprog 0 openwrt-xburst-qi_lb60-u-boot.bin 0 0 -n"

# go to where you have the uImage from qi-kernel and flash it 
sudo usbboot -c "nprog 1024 uImage 0 0 -n"

# go back to your toolchain bin/xburst/ and run
sudo usbboot -c "nprog 2048 openwrt-xburst-qi_lb60-root.ubi 0 0 -n"

Reboot your device, insert the ATBen and test whether the kernel has been successfully compiled.

dmesg | grep at86rf231
#or 
dmesg | grep at86rf230

If the kernel is installed properly it should return this: “at86rf230 spi32766.0: Detected at86rf231 chip version 2”

Enable password-less remote access (optional - on your host)

# add this entry in your ~.ssh/config file
	Host ben
	HostName 192.168.254.101
	StrictHostKeyChecking no 
	UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
	User root

# in your /etc/hosts and add this
	192.168.254.101	ben
# create rsa key
	$ ssh-keygen -t rsa
# on your nanonote change password to null , type passwd in command line and type enter enter.
# and finally run
	ssh ben 'cat >>/etc/dropbear/authorized_keys' <~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

ssh in your nanonote and run:

opkg update
opkg install ip
opkg install ldconfig
mkdir -p /usr/local/var/run
exit

wget http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/files/libnl-1.1.tar.gz
tar xfz libnl-1.1.tar.gz
cd libnl-1.1

Before configuring and compiling the library, check if the “which mipsel-openwrt-linux-gcc” command works. If it does not return the path to your gcc toolchain compiler, run this command.

export PATH=/path/to/your/mips/toolchain/bin:$PATH
#eg export PATH=/home/tcr/xburst-toolchain/staging_dir/toolchain-mipsel_gcc-linaro_uClibc-0.9.32/bin:$PATH

gcc=`readlink -f \`which mipsel-openwrt-linux-gcc\``
./configure --prefix=${gcc%/bin/*} --host=mipsel-openwrt-linux
make
sudo make install

scp the compiled library on your Ben. NB: if you've added the entry in your .ssh/config you can scp directly to ben:~ otherwise use the full address root@192.168.254.101:~

scp lib/libnl.so.1.1 ben:/usr/lib
ssh $NN /sbin/ldconfig
cd ..

git clone git://linux-zigbee.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/linux-zigbee/linux-zigbee
cd linux-zigbee
./autogen.sh --host=mipsel-openwrt-linux
make
scp src/iz src/izcoordinator src/izchat ben:/usr/sbin/
cd ..

git clone git://projects.qi-hardware.com/ben-wpan.git

cd ben-wpan/tools

make TARGET=ben_openwrt
make -C dirtpan TARGET=ben_openwrt

scp dirtpan/dirtpan $NN:/usr/sbin

NB: if ieee802145.h header is missing during make, copy from lowpan-tools-0.2.2/include/ieee802154.h to tools/dirtpan/.

The compiled ben-wpan kernel and the binary files are available on software page.