[Fliker09]

Tried XBMC Live 9.11 and found out that wireless interface doesn't work (wlan0 - Interface disabled). But under Kubuntu 9.10 it is found (even though doesn't connect, but this is something usual for buggy NetworkManager). My card is AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter [168C:1C] (lshw output, but not under Ubuntu). What is the problem?

P.S. Sorry for my bad English.

[Fliker09]

Ok, no answers. But how to get to terminal to debug myself?

[jurrabi]

To access a terminal from XBMC Live just press Cntrl-Alt-F1 (through F6) to get a text terminal.

To return to XBMC press Cntrl-Alt-F6.

I would suggest to search the forum for solutions on how to configure your Wireless Card in XBMC_Live.

Support from the XBMC interface is planned, although it's not high priority as current developers usually use cable connection.

I'm sure it won't be difficult to find a post that shows how to configure your wifi in XBMC_live.

Right now I'm trying XBMC_Live on my new HP Pavilion dv6. Although right now I'm using cable I will also get into making the wifi work.

If I find some kind of tutorial or help I will let you know.

Best of Lucks,

Jur.

[jurrabi]

Hi,

As I told you I could find information to make it work in the forums.

For a Wifi with wep or no security you just have to modify /etc/network/interfaces to add info for your wifi as suggested here
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...t=wireless

Here is my example:

>sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
Add to the end:
#Data for wlan0
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid WLanID #Change with your SSID
wireless-channel XX #Change with your channel or try without it
wireless-mode managed #if you are accessing via Access Point (the usual)
wireless-key 001122 #Change with your wep key in hex or prefix with s: for ascii. It doesn't work for wpa passphrase keys...

If your wireless (like mine) has wpa security this is not enough.

You'll need the wpasupplicant package.

I can give hint instructions also for this, but because I'm not an expert and I just know enough no make mine work I will suggest to Google the forums and the Internet.

I used the help form this page:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WPAHowTo

Hope you can solve your problems.

Best of Luck and enjoy XBMC,

Jur.

[Fliker09]

Thanks for attention!

I know about F-terminals. But exists a problem - they are black and because of that I don't see anything. And I know why this happens - bug in Nvidia drivers. I tried to give command to dump dmesg output to a file on F-terminals (sudo I used). But! No success. I suppose that there is need to give login and password. So the question is - could somebody give this data?

P.S. XBMC Live has a good GUI configuration for wireless so why console?