The instructions on this page assume that you have already flashed your gumstix with our pre-built images or images derived from our customized build environment.

Connecting to PIP

The package 'pipconf' (user.collection/packages/pipconf) installed a wireless setup script into the gumstix. It can be found at /etc/rcS.d/S43wireless.sh on your gumstix system. It is run when the system boots and configures your wireless module into ad-hoc mode with IP address 192.168.28.1, subnet 255.255.255.0, and essid 'piphoc'.

If you have a laptop with a recent version of Ubuntu (>= 9.04) the default Network Manager tools should be able to find and connect to the wireless ad-hoc network 'piphoc'. The gumstix does not run a dhcp server so you will have to manually assign your laptop an IP address. For example you can choose '192.168.28.30'.

Once connected you can communicate with the gumstix directly.

Installing PIP Web

If you would like to install our homemade web interface for controlling a PIP node then please read on. Check out the latest pipweb sources from http://github.com/jdegges/pipweb/tree/master.

Now you need to copy the sources to your gumstix. The instructions assume that you have a microSD card installed and it is mounted on /media/card/. To copy the sources over to the gumstix:

Create a link from the pipweb installation directory to the document root of the webserver. This let you access pipweb through your browser:

Now you should be able to navigate to http://192.168.28.1/pipweb in your borwser. At this point you have successfully installed PIP!