To add Wi-Fi capability to the BeagleBone board, let's connect a Wi-Fi dongle in the USB port available on the BeagleBone board, as shown in the following picture:
Once you have connected the USB Wi-Fi dongle you can check whether it is connected or not by typing the following command:
lsusb: This is shown in the following screenshot where the USB Wi-Fi dongle is highlighted, that is Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271 802.11n:
Then type the following command:
iwconfig:iwconfigwill show you the details of the wireless LAN connection status, as shown in the previous screenshot, where you can see that wlan1, which is highlighted, shows the detail that is not associated with any access point as of now.
Our next step is to connect the Wi-Fi dongle to the Wi-Fi access point. To do this we will be using a program called wicd-curses, which is available in Debian by default.
To use the program we need to enter the following command:
sudo wicd-curses
Once you execute...
