Robot under Linux
Under Linux all modes are possible, we will see here the different parameters involved in the
configuration of the robot. There are 3 important configuration files we need to manage in the
robot:
../etc/network/interfaces
../etc/nylon/interfaces.conf
../etc/rc2.d/S31wifibot
These files can either be edited outside the robot and then transferred or directly edited on the robot.
The “interfaces” configuration file:
This file allows to specify the IP settings of the different network interfaces present on the robot and
the wireless settings when it applies. All the micro-troopers have the eth0 interface for the LAN and
the wlan0 interface for the WLAN connection. As we have seen there are four possible wireless
modes, here we will show an example of configuration of this file for each one of those modes.
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Infrastructure Master:
• LAN IP settings
• WLAN IP settings
• wireless mode
specified to
master,
that is, it will create a
wireless network.
• SSID, that is the
name of the wireless
network the robot will
create.
• channel to be used,
important to avoid
interferences if several
wireless networks are
present.
