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The gumstix motherboard used is the [http://www.gumstix.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=178 verdex XL6P]. It has a 600MHz Marvell XScale processor, 128MB of RAM, and 32MB of flash.
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===Hardware===
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The gumstix [http://www.gumstix.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=210 motherboard] has a 600MHz Marvell XScale processor, 128MB of RAM, and 32MB of flash.
 
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The 120 pin expansion socket has a [http://gumstix.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=183 netCF-vx] network interface card for TCP/IP networking. This card also has a Compact Flash slot should additional storage be required.
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The 80 pin expansion socket is attached to a [http://www.gumstix.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=207 network interface card] for TCP/IP networking.
 
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The 60 pin expansion socket has a [http://gumstix.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=184 breakout-vx] card to allow access to the I2C signals, serial ports, and various other GPIO possibilities.
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The 60 pin expansion socket has a [http://www.gumstix.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=184 breakout-vx] card to allow access to the I2C signals, serial ports, and various other GPIO possibilities.
 
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Additionally, [http://www.gumstix.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=148 4V power adapters] and screw and spacer [http://www.gumstix.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=161 kits] are needed.
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[http://www.gumstix.com Gumstix computers]<br/>
 
 
[http://docwiki.gumstix.org/Main_Page Gumstix Documentation Wiki]<br/>
 
[http://docwiki.gumstix.org/Main_Page Gumstix Documentation Wiki]<br/>
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Revision as of 00:26, 12 September 2009

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`"