Welcome to Gateworks Wiki

This wiki site has been created to provide general hardware and software support for the Gateworks Product Families of ARM Single Board Computers (SBC) and Network Processor Boards.

Getting Started	Blog	User Manuals	Gateworks Shop	3D Models
Newport Software/Hardware	Ventana Software/Hardware	Laguna Software/Hardware	Expansion Modules	Gateworks System Controller
Video and Audio	Wireless / WiFi Radios	Cellular Modems	GPS	Digital IO / GPIO / DIO

What's New

• GW16130 Satellite Modem
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Board Families

You can find links to source code along with Pre-Built Binary images / software that can be programmed onto the board under each family.

• Newport Family
• Ventana Family
• Laguna Family

How to Use this Wiki

The Gateworks Software Wiki has a large amount of very helpful information for users of the Gateworks Single Board Computers.

Please narrow down the information by Product Family (Click product family in table above) or by Operating System (see the Software link Icon above)

There are also many pages related to the Gateworks SBC Hardware, please view all generic links below.

Because the Wiki is so large, please use the search box in the upper right hand corner of this page. Also, please use site Index (Index link in upper right corner) to see all pages. You can also use Google to search our page with an example query like so: yoursearchterm site:trac.gateworks.com

Gateworks uses Open Source software which has the source code available to the public. Gateworks encourages users to utilize the Open Source community related to the operating system they choose.

And lastly, for information that cannot be found, please email as at support@gateworks.com and Gateworks will do it's best to answer any question!

Stay Connected

Gateworks Newsletter

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Blog

Be sure to subscribe for email alerts for new posts to the Gateworks Blog for important updates, projects, tutorials and more! ​http://blog.gateworks.com/

Github

See all of our source code commits! ​https://github.com/gateworks

Product Change Notification

Gateworks provides a Product Change Notification (PCN) to communicate any changes in hardware to it's customers. PCN Wiki Page

Contact & Support

Additional support is provided through the Gateworks general support email at: support@…. For sales information contact sales at: sales@…. Gateworks prides itself in support. Gateworks is a hardware company using open source software pre-loaded and supported on it's boards. Extra features are something Gateworks may not have tested. We highly encourage everyone to use the support from the open source community built around the BSP they choose

Gateworks SBC

• Gateworks SBC Firmware / Software
• ​Product User Manuals
• JTAG - JTAG isntructions - For flashing firmware to Gateworks boards, and for serial console access
• Gateworks System Controller (GSC) - Temperature, voltage, RTC, GPIO, Digital IO, I/O, pushbutton, etc
• GPIO / Digital I/O and LED Configuration
• Performance Tuning For Wired and Wireless Throughput Networking
• Watchdog Timer
• Booting Laguna on MicroSD card
• Multi-Core Processing , SMP
• Helpful Sample Test Commands - lsusb, lsmod, gpio, i2c, etc
• GW2201 Octal UART support
• Setting up a TFTP Server
• Determining Serial, Model Number, and Software Versions
• Tutorial for Console Log
• Hard Reboot via GSC
• Power Over Ethernet , POE
• Silencing Serial Console Output
• Alternate Connectors for Ethernet, Power, USB
• Frequently Asked Questions - FAQ
• Gateworks SBC Revisions
• Gateworks Specials Program - Customization
• Conformal Coating of SBCs
• End of Life Policy - EOL Dates

Software

Board Support Package (BSP)

Gateworks offers the following Board Support Packages (BSPs). Please click the BSP link for tutorials and setup instructions related to that BSP:

• OpenWrt - Networking and small FLASH/memory footprint focused
• Yocto (Ventana only) - (OpenEmbedded built) Video / Audio focused, fairly standard Linux distro tools and configuration
• Android (Ventana only) - Android Linux distro
• Ubuntu - Ventana, Newport
• Debian (Ventana only) - Debian Linux distro
• Windows Embedded Compact 7 - (Ventana only)
• Many other 3rd party software packages are available. See the following links for some pre-built packages for wifi networks:
  • DDWRT - ​http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index
  • Valemount StarOS - ​http://www.star-os.com/ & ​http://www.cue-link.com/store/

Mainline Kernel / Third party Linux distributions

Great efforts have been made to ensure our boards are supported by the mainline Linux kernel and U-boot boot-loader. It's a straight forward process to adapt any Linux distribution you feel is appropriate for your application for use with a Gateworks board, provided the mainline kernel is being used. We are glad to offer support for questions regarding mainline kernel, and U-boot boot-loader issues, though issues that may be encountered in any given distro's user-space are too varied to provide accurate answers. If you encounter an issue in user-space we suggest you utilize forums specific to this distro, or recreate the issue using a BSP Gateworks officially supports, see above. Before selecting a kernel version see our errata pages to check compatibility.

• Ventana Errata
• Newport Errata
• Laguna Errata

Tables for mainline kernel version support:

• Ventana Table
• Newport Table

Other helpful references for building out of tree:

• Newport BSP
• Newport Boot
• Newport Ubuntu (Debootstrap)
• Ventana Debian
• Ventana Third Party Linux
• Linux Kernel
• Device Tree
• Buildroot
• More resources available see our index.

Peripherals: Wireless, GPS, etc

• General Wireless Information
• Cellular Modems (M2M)
• GPS Support
• Bluetooth Support
• Intel 82574 Support
• MiniPCIe Accessory Cards
• mSATA (SSD) / SATA Drives / Storage
• Enclosures
• USB Ethernet Adapters
• M.2 NGFF Adapters

Wireless Configurations

• OpenWrt:
  • standard Access Point
  • standard Wireless client (without Bridging)
  • Wireless Bridge - Layer2 bridge using wireless and WDS
  • relayd - Bridge like Client Mode (when using an AP w/o WDS

• Wireless Throughput Tuning for Higher Numbers

Networking

• OpenWrt:
  • Configure Network settings such as IP Address

Mesh Networking

• OpenWrt has some open source mesh software including Batman and OLSR
• See the OpenWrt website for some more information regarding these ​http://wiki.openwrt.org/tag/mesh?do=showtag&tag=mesh

Communication

• CAN Bus
• Serial RS232 / TTL Communication
• Transferring Files
• On-board Serial Over IP (ser2net)
• Board to board Serial Over IP
• I2C Information
• SPI Information

Video / Audio Support

Note: Most Video / Audio support is for the Ventana Product Family

• Video Output
• Video Input
• GStreamer Video Framework

See more on the Ventana Page

Expansion Modules

• GW16103 SIM/USB/MicroSD Expansion Module
• GW16112 USB Expansion Module
• GW16113 Digital / Analog IO Expansion Module
• GW16122 IoT Radio Module
• GW16126 CATM1 Cellular Modem
• GW16130 Iridium Satellite Modem
• Ventana Expansion Modules