Gumstix

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Hardware

The gumstix motherboard has a 600MHz Marvell XScale processor, 128MB of RAM, and 32MB of flash.
The 80 pin expansion socket is attached to a network interface card for TCP/IP networking.
The 60 pin expansion socket has a breakout-vx card to allow access to the I2C signals, serial ports, and various other GPIO possibilities.
Additionally, 4V power adapters and screw and spacer kits are needed.

Software

Gumstix Documentation Wiki

I2C installation

cgi-bin programs

Boa Webserver is the webserver on the Gumstix.
cgicc is the C++ library used for handling web scripts.
Buildroot is the system used to build the root image for the gumstix.

Tutorials

I2C Linux from userspace.
[http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialC++CGI.html libcgicc


Misc

Setting the date

The busybox date -s accepts a very limited format. Use it from another Linux box as follows:

ssh root@134.50.203.56 "echo date -s `date +%m%d%H%M%Y`"