LeapFrog Pollux Platform: Networking

This is a tutorial to setup a static IP address on your explorer.

1. setup a network between the explorer and your host system

You can start the explorer and have it default to a static IP address by simply holding down the brightness button at boot time. Simply edit /etc/init.d/networking, look for any place there is an IP address and replace it with yours, you should also change the bit after the slash to set your netmask), edit lines 32 and 41:

and make them look like this:

Now plug in a mini usb cable and Reboot and as soon as you see: Emerald Base: Starting /etc/init.d/networking ... Emerald Base: /etc/init.d/networking: Holding brightness: forcing static IP

on the console then it is safe to let go.

You can make this permanent so that you don't have to hold down brightness by removing the avahi flag:

now reboot and you will get your static IP address assigned

2. Configure the host

Once this is done you need to configure the host:

I'm using ubuntu 10.04, it has a automatic configuration, I've set mine so that auto usb0 has the ipv4, method setting of 'local-link only' and in auto eth2 I have hardcoded the ip address to 10.0.1.1, netmask 255.255.255.0, gateway of 0.0.0.0

you should now be able to connect to your machine using ftp, sftp and if you do the NFS tutorial via NFS as well.