[murion]

Your Revo seems to be using a different module (ath5k) than mine (ath9k, Atheros AR9280 chip).
Anyways, to use wicd instead of Network Manager, try
sudo apt-get install wicd
Reboot just to be safe afterwards.
Some people seem to have better luck with wicd, ymmv.

[Jimcando]

I have installed wicd, nothing seems to be different. I tried setting up the wireless again, but it still provides the same error.
I will have to take the Revo to my friends house and attempt to connect to his wireless, to see if it is the Revo or my wireless connection which is the problem. Don't know when I will be able to achieve this though, so I appreciate any more input anyone else has.

[Jimcando]

Update: I attempted to connect to another network, but it left me with the same problem.

So it must be something wrong on the Revo end. Like I said before, I did successfully connect to the wireless using the pre-installed OS and a live CD of Ubuntu, so it surely can't be broken hardware. This system is supposed to be easy to set up with XBMC, so surely the drivers that come with it are fine.

I know I said I'm a linux noob, but I can and am following the tutorials exactly, so I don't think I'm missing anything out. I have tried setting it up many, many times and re-installed XBMC a few more times - to no avail.

I'm completely out of ideas.

[Jimcando]

Update: I decided to just boot up the live XBMC from my memory stick, and set up the wireless.

It actually almost, kind of worked! :O
I could connect to the router, everything seemed to go as planned in the terminal, but XBMC claimed it had no internet connection, and I couldn't add my NAS to sources to watch videos
While this is a set in the right direction, it's not exactly perfect.

What is different from running it from the USB stick, to installing it and running it from a hard drive?

I do want to run XBMC from the hard disk, and I would be much happier if I had full internet access. Though I suspect that could be a different problem...

[The-Boxhead]

Hi again !

Thought i could give you some info on my setup:
I installed the live usb to hd a few days ago.
I have both wired connection eth0 (for my in house files server)
and wireless for weather,rss,scraping,scripts,plugins etc

This is what i did:

From terminal:

Edit the network file:

Code:

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

This is my config for cabled eth0 and wireless wlan0:
(i do not use WEP,WPA encryption)

Code:

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

# Wireless
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid dlink14C0

Run ifconfig to check your settings:

Code:

ifconfig

This is my output:

Code:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:26:18:40:28:06
          inet addr:192.168.0.129  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::226:18ff:fe40:2806/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1441443 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:815377 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2016752725 (2.0 GB)  TX bytes:74894287 (74.8 MB)
          Interrupt:21 Base address:0x2000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:22404 (22.4 KB)  TX bytes:22404 (22.4 KB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:25:86:c8:76:1c
          inet addr:192.168.1.198  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::225:86ff:fec8:761c/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3398 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1471 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1512750 (1.5 MB)  TX bytes:340258 (340.2 KB)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-25-86-C8-76-1C-63-38-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          UP RUNNING  MTU:0  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

To restart all network adapters do:

Code:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

My output is then:

Code:

Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:25:86:c8:76:1c
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:25:86:c8:76:1c
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPRELEASE on wlan0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.2
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:26:18:40:28:06
Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:26:18:40:28:06
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPOFFER of 192.168.0.129 from 192.168.0.1
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.0.129 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK of 192.168.0.129 from 192.168.0.1
bound to 192.168.0.129 -- renewal in 282734 seconds.
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.2
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:25:86:c8:76:1c
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:25:86:c8:76:1c
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPOFFER of 192.168.1.198 from 192.168.1.1
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.198 on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK of 192.168.1.198 from 192.168.1.1
bound to 192.168.1.198 -- renewal in 42411 seconds.

To make xbmc pick up new settings do a:

Code:

sudo /etc/init.d/xbmc-live stop

then

Code:

sudo /etc/init.d/xbmc-live start

Hope some of this info can be usefull
As i mentioned i had to do some tweaking on my wireless router
before it offerd dhcp to my linux box. Play around with dhcp settings on your router. And its a good idea to temporary disable all security and encryption
while you set this stuff up. If you get it working then you can re-add security and encryption !

I got this working from a clean live-usb install with latest XBMC. No extra stuff was done.
I have a jensen usb wireless adapter plugged in and a dlink router.

[Jimcando]

Thankyou for helping.
My problem is when I do

Code:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

I don't get a reply from my router, only this

Code:

Listening on LPF/wlan0/0c:60:76:68:50:8d
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/0c:60:76:68:50:8d
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 2
No DHCPOFFERS recieved.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping

I have been through all the settings on my router and cannot find any settings to change DHCP, but every other device I have can connect fine, even the Aspire Revo can when I use an Ubuntu live disk.

The next thing I will have to try is using a USB network adapter plugged into the Revo, hopefully that might work...

[The-Boxhead]

So it seems you have everything working on the linux side.

Im sure there is something on the router side. Cause
i had the exact same problem that you have, got no dhcp offerings.

But after playing around with my dhcp setting on the router i suddenly got dhcp offerings.

[Jimcando]

I will try hunt something down. While there may not be any settings in the config page, I do know it's possible to telnet into the router and edit some more settings...

After looking at the possible settings, I realise it's just to complicated for me to do anything There is a manual of all the possible commands here, but there's hundreds and I have no idea what to do or how to do it.

[murion]

It's weird that the live cd's wifi works fine, but your installation doesn't. Does
sudo dpkg --configure -a
help fix any broken packages?
I'm wondering if your install is using different kernel modules/drivers for your wifi card than the live cd. You might need to blacklist the other ath modules. See if you can google for help on that.

[Jimcando]

Woooohoooo

After playing around with some settings on my router, I broke it
Then I reset the router back to the default settings and it works, no idea what's different now since they should have always been on default settings

Thankyou everyone who helped me. I knew it would turn out to be something stupid like that

Now that that first hurdle has been jumped, it's on to more complex things. I'm sure I'll be back with some more questions. I do love XBMC.

(I wish everyone wasn't asleep so I could go high five someone)