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Intro

This guide will lead you to a custom built Ubuntu distribution with working WLAN, ready to run on your Overo Air COM.
LXDE will be used as window manager. Further different modules and drivers will be added to the system.

Please notice that this guide incluedes all steps of the process in a condensed form.
It describes one way which worked for me, but does not include all the rich information like the official guides from Gumstix.

THIS GUIDE IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT! Missing and empty steps will be updated during the next few weeks

Steps

This guide is split into following 6 steps:

Requirements & Preparation

Overo COM

  • Gumstix Overo (Air)
  • Summit extension board
  • Power supply
  • USB Mini-B to Standard-A (computer host to overo device) cable
  • 2GB microSD card (I suggest a larger one; 8GB should be enough)
  • microSD card adapter to connect your microSD card to your development machine.

Development machine

Since I use a MacBook Pro with OSX Snow Leopard, I suggest a VirtualBox with a current version of Ubuntu (I used 9.04) for building the custom Ubuntu version for your Overo. Of course, a "real" Ubuntu installation works also flawless ;)

Further, you need some specific software packages installed on your Linux VM.
Just use apt-get and install following packages (snippet at the end of the list):

  • git
  • git-core
  • subversion
  • gcc
  • patch
  • help2man
  • diffstat
  • texi2html
  • texinfo
  • libncurses5-dev
  • cvs
  • gawk
  • python-dev
  • python-pysqlite2
  • g++
sudo apt-get install git git-core subversion gcc patch help2man diffstat
 texi2html texinfo libncurses5-dev cvs gawk python-dev python-pysqlite2 g++

References

This guide is based on my own experieces and the following sources:

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