[LIVE] Cannot connect via ethernet on Acer AspireRevo R3610
#1
I recently got an Acer AspireRevo R3610 and installed XBMC using the XBMC Live 9.11 repack (r26018) from a USB stick. XBMC installed with only one problem: the network could not be configured.

I've been looking through posts on this forum for ways to set up networking but nothing has helped. I tested the cable and it works fine on other computers.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

ifconfig:
Code:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 90:fb:a6:88:aa:ac
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  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)
          Interrupt:23 Base address:0xe000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
[... snipping details of lo; shouldn't be relevant and takes forever to type ...]

/etc/network/interfaces:
Code:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

#auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.99
gateway 192.168.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
(note: obviously also tried using dhcp here, didn't work)
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#2
it's /etc/network/interfaces.. or was that a typo?
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#3
Whoops, yeah it was a typo. Fixed now.

UPDATE: (to avoid double post)

Narrowed the problem down to auto-negotiation:
Code:
sudo ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off speed 100 duplex full
works fine but
Code:
sudo ethtool -s eth0 autoneg on speed 100 duplex full
doesn't work at all.

Ideally I would have Gigabit ethernet but
Code:
sudo ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off speed 1000 duplex full
doesn't work because apparently Gigabit REQUIRES auto-negotiation.

Does anyone know of a fix for this auto-negotiation problem?
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#4
did you ever get a fix for this as it's started to happen on my Revo too?
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#5
Depends on what version you run...

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc...bug/350386
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#6
plain old vanilla Live at the moment (when eth0 works)
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#7
Anastrophe Wrote:plain old vanilla Live at the moment (when eth0 works)

If your talking old stable build then it's xbmc 9.11, the live distro is based on jaunty I believe. Which openly has this bug. If you use the new dharma beta 2 it's based on lucid. This would primly fix your issue.
Or if you didn't wanna go bleeding edge install karmic minmal and then install last stable. Ie 9.11 camalot directly to disk. However you will need to install things like alsa ad lirc aswell ad vdpau drivers etc.
Dharma b2 is running really solid for me on the live right outta the box.
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#8
that was a bit ambigious of me, I meant the latest beta etc 3.

Although I'm starting to think it's the onboard nic and my Cisco switch that aren't playing together well. If I use a cheap 1gbps dlink switch all is well. If I use the Cisco then DHCP no longer works (in Beta 2 for sure), but it's OK with manual settings. The same Revo will boot into Vista and DHCP seems to work.

There's something strange about the DHCP part, because if I do a Live install on the dlink switch and then move the device to a Cisco switch then it will work fine for a couple of days until the dhcp lease expires (on the win2k3r2 server) and then I'm stuck again. I have two other boxes (Mag & Asrock) and they're both fine.
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#9
fixed this a while back, but just incase someone else faces this porblem..

FWIW I'm now convinced it had something to do with running my own DHCP and DNS on a Win2k3 server and having mutliple 'xmclive' clients all with the same name.

I've added a DHCP reservation fro each host, renamed all of the etc\hostname and etc\hosts entries, rebooted and then edited the NIC setting back to dhcp and all works fine.
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