Ubuntu GPIO Export Fails. What am I missing?

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I am working with utilizing some GPIO pins on an SBC (Parallella).
As a first test, I decided to manually configure some GPIO pins.
For example:
echo 54>/sys/class/gpio/export
My understanding is that this should create a directory /sys/class/gpio/gpio54
, where the direction, value, etc. for the pin can be set.
I get no error messages, followed by a prompt. When I ls
afterward, I can see that the gpio54 directory hasn't been created. I searched using the find command and it doesn't seem to have been created anywhere else.
I have done all of this with root privilege. Re-flashing my SD card with a fresh copy of Ubuntu doesn't seem to help.
What am I missing?
16.04
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I am working with utilizing some GPIO pins on an SBC (Parallella).
As a first test, I decided to manually configure some GPIO pins.
For example:
echo 54>/sys/class/gpio/export
My understanding is that this should create a directory /sys/class/gpio/gpio54
, where the direction, value, etc. for the pin can be set.
I get no error messages, followed by a prompt. When I ls
afterward, I can see that the gpio54 directory hasn't been created. I searched using the find command and it doesn't seem to have been created anywhere else.
I have done all of this with root privilege. Re-flashing my SD card with a fresh copy of Ubuntu doesn't seem to help.
What am I missing?
16.04
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I am working with utilizing some GPIO pins on an SBC (Parallella).
As a first test, I decided to manually configure some GPIO pins.
For example:
echo 54>/sys/class/gpio/export
My understanding is that this should create a directory /sys/class/gpio/gpio54
, where the direction, value, etc. for the pin can be set.
I get no error messages, followed by a prompt. When I ls
afterward, I can see that the gpio54 directory hasn't been created. I searched using the find command and it doesn't seem to have been created anywhere else.
I have done all of this with root privilege. Re-flashing my SD card with a fresh copy of Ubuntu doesn't seem to help.
What am I missing?
16.04
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I am working with utilizing some GPIO pins on an SBC (Parallella).
As a first test, I decided to manually configure some GPIO pins.
For example:
echo 54>/sys/class/gpio/export
My understanding is that this should create a directory /sys/class/gpio/gpio54
, where the direction, value, etc. for the pin can be set.
I get no error messages, followed by a prompt. When I ls
afterward, I can see that the gpio54 directory hasn't been created. I searched using the find command and it doesn't seem to have been created anywhere else.
I have done all of this with root privilege. Re-flashing my SD card with a fresh copy of Ubuntu doesn't seem to help.
What am I missing?
16.04
16.04
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