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Where to start once the gumstix arrives?
Getting started is the place to go for instructions on assembling, powering up and programming gumstix computers, packs and board configurations.

All gumstix computers and individual motherboards ship with the latest Linux-2.6 installed on the flash memory.

Note: Any rs-MMC memory card bought from gumstix.com should be a blank, formatted MMC card with a FAT filesystem on it. Linux is pre-loaded on the motherboards not on the MMC cards.

If you plug the gumstix into a USB port on a Windows machine, or a linux machine running a 2.6.10 or later kernel, then the gumstix will bring up a usbnet connection and try to get an IP address. By default, it'll attempt DHCP.

Generally the easiest way to get things working is to bridge the USBnet connection to your LAN on the host you're plugging in to. Then the gumstix should be able to talk to your regular DHCP server.