[Gumstix-users] Overo Firestorm Newbie needs help requirements follow

[B W <wv...@ho...>]

Hello! I need pointers to information from anyone:

1. I need my Overo to automatically after boot try to join an AD-HOC network hosted by my windows XP machine.

I have the /etc/network/interfaces file modified and indeed it appears that iwconfig can see the network,
but I need a way to "ping" from one to the other.

I am a bit of a miss on Networking.  In an Ad-hoc network, are the IP addresses set manually on both radios?
or is the ESSID the key?

How do I ping?


2. I want to use VNC to "remote Desktop" from the windows machine to the GuMstix (which is running the factory distro: Angstrom

but I have no idea how to set this up.

I have googled myself silly at this point.

Thanks!

Brett Werner