[kinghuzi]

Suddenly out of the blue ... live (USB installed working fine since a week) stopped picking a DNS from my router

Link : Internet , but no dns connected

Booting off the CD works fine ... just my usb installation stopped giving me internet access (SMB shares etc work like a charm)

Any ideas folks

[Xanatos]

Try here:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=38000

No one seems to have solved the problem (no DNS from your router) yet, but at least there's sort of a workaround.

Edit: oops I see you are already on that thread.