Debian Tips

How to set Static IP address

From Gibojoe. Sometime you do not have a DHCP server to assign an IP Address. Sometimes you just want your board to come up with the same IP Address no matter what. You need to make sure to allocate a subnet-unique address.

For a static IP edit to /etc/network/interface to:

allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.11
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1

How to set the hostname

From scheich. Propably you want to change the hostname of your odroid. For this you have to adjust the following files.

(a static IP address is needed)

$hostname e.g. superfastodroidserver

$domainname e.g. fritz.box

/etc/hosts

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain
192.168.178.11  $hostname.$domainname $hostname

/etc/hostname

$hostname.$domainname

Afterwards you should get the fully qualified domain name with the following command.

hostname -a

How to Point to apt-cacher

Install apt-cacher-ng on a host. It will cache Debian packages you fetch while working on the target. You need to set up the apt-cacher host on the target. This example points to a host running apt-cacher-ng with IP Address 192.168.50.101 on port 3142

# This is for apt-cacher-ng
cat <<EOF_MARK >>/etc/apt/apt.conf
Acquire::http { Proxy "http://192.168.50.101:3142"; };
EOF_MARK

How to Setup Wifi

Here is a reference link: http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse

You need to have a network driver. These are usually available on the target as a kernel module. To see if your wireless network interface driver is installed, do this:

ls /sys/class/net     

eth0 ip6tnl0 lo sit0 wlan0

wlan0 is my wireless device