General

Hostname

The default hostname is pynq. To change the hostname of the board use to following command and restart the board:

# Get current hostname
hostname
# Change hostname
pynq_hostname.sh <NEW HOSTNAME>
# restart
shutdown -r now

Get Current IP Address

hostname -I

Change Static IP Address

vim /etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0

For DHCP

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth0:1
iface eth0:1 inet dhcp

For new static IP

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth0:1
iface eth0:1 inet static
address <new-ip-address>
netmask <new-subnew-mask>

vim /etc/network/interfaces.d/wlan0

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
 wpa-ssid <ssid>
 wpa-psk <password>

You can edit this file via a python cell in a notebook

from pynq.lib import Wifi
port = Wifi()
port.connect('wifiNetworkNameGoesHere', 'wifiNetworkPasswordGoesHere')

Activate and deactivate wifi if setup

sudo ifdown wlan0
sudo ifup -v wlan0

Check wifi connection

iwconfig
iw wlan0 info

Jupyter Configuration can be found at:

/root/.jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py

# Create Password hash
from IPython.lib import passwd
password = passwd("secret")
> 6c2164fc2b22:ed55ecf07fc0f985ab46561483c0e888e8964ae6

# Set jupyter notebook password hash
c.NotebookApp.password =u'sha1:6c2164fc2b22:ed55ecf07fc0f985ab46561483c0e888e8964ae6'

Jupyter is started automatically by a systemctl service. The start script can be found at

/usr/local/bin/start_jupyter.sh

sudo systemctl status jupyter.service
sudo systemctl start jupyter.service
sudo systemctl stop jupyter.service

In case of problems the log file of systemctl can be access with the following command:

sudo journalctl -u jupyter.service

/var/log/jupyter.log