The bifferboard comes installed with a very small linux distribution called openWRT. It has a very small python installed, but no python USB support.
I have struggled a bit to work out how the openWRT package system works - the official wiki is a bit confused about what the current version is called (kamikaze or backfire). It implies you can add packages by downloading them from svn, but this didn't seem to do anything.
I found a useful forum post here, which seems to be the best set of instructions.
You can do
./scripts/feeds update -aThis downloads the list of packages, but does not do anything else.
To get the buildroot system to compile it for you you need to 'install' it using:./scripts/feeds install python./scripts/feeds install pyusbYou can then do "make menuconfig" and python and pyusb are shown to be compiled as packages "".
'make' actually compiles it.I'll update this when I work out how to add these to the firmware image...
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To get the full package set I usually just do:
svn co svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk/
cd trunk
make package/symlinks
And then:
make menuconfig
to choose the packages. I'm not sure if it's documented anywhere, but adding the packages as [*] compiles them and puts them in the firmware, adding as [m] compiles them only so they can be installed to the running firmware later.
Ah - I think it was the make package/symlinks that I was missing - I'll try that next time - just experimenting with OpenEmbedded instead at the moment to see if I can get the hang of that.
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