From: Dave H. <dhy...@gm...> - 2005-01-09 09:21:45
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Hi Darren, On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 23:46:23 -0800, Darren Gibbs <ts...@ya...> wrote: > > On Jan 8, 2005, at 10:28 PM, Florian Loitsch wrote: > > The cleanest solution is of course a dhcp-server. You should find > > instructions > > for you distribution on the net (has the advantage of not needing to > > change > > the gumstix. which also means, that reflashing the gumstix won't > > destroy your changes). > > I couldn't get YaST to see the usb0 interface, so I followed Ben's 10 > steps to USBNet (but skipping the IP forwarding/masq setup which > doesn't seem necessary since I'm only wanting to talk to the gumstix > from the host, so I just turned off the firewall). The setup worked, > but I have a chicken/egg situation in which the gumstix only looks for > a dhcp server while it's booting, but I can't ifconfig usb0 on the > Linux host until the gumstix has booted and caused the Linux host to > bring up usb0. Over the serial link I can coax the gumstix to look for > a DHCP server by doing ifup usb0. Is there some way to keep the > gumstix looking for a DHCP server after boot, or is there something > else going on here I don't yet understand. I discovered that the gumstix will continue to try to connect to a dhcp server even after boot. It can take upto a minute or so though. Originally, I wasn't patient enough. I'm not sure if that helps or not (I'm using Windows XP so I have different issues). -- Dave Hylands Vancouver, BC, Canada http://www.DaveHylands.com/ |