After the recent conversation about WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) I decided to look at what I could shift to run on Finmark from my Windows desktop instead of the Linux laptop I usually use. I see posts that people run the CLI version of ROS on WSL - I haven’t tried that yet. And with the linux GUI coming, I also see that folks are running applications like RVIZ using WSL. But I decided to start simple and just ssh in to my GoPiGo3 to launch ROS locally on the robot. That should work fine for simple programs where I’m not running a navigation stack remotely. I think.
I immediately ran into the problem that I couldn’t ssh into my robot - I’d get a “could not resolve hostname” error when I tried (running Ubuntu 20.04). Some googling found that this issue goes back years, and a lot of somewhat arcane solutions were suggested. However it turned out to be a really easy fix. It just involves turning off “fast start-up”. The steps are listed here:
https://stephenreescarter.net/wsl2-network-issues-and-win-10-fast-start-up/
I wanted to post this here in case others have this problem.
Now on to running ROS via WSL…
/K