2010-04-16, 23:04
Hi everyone, please forgive my noobyness if I am asking something with an obvious answer, but while I am fine with most windows computermabobs and the windows version of XBMC, I am treading into the murky unknown of Linux with XBMC Live so I am learning as I go.
Firstly I had probably best explain my setup:
I am running the 9.11 version of XBMC Live off of a 4gb SD card in an Acer Revo 36*0 (Cant remember if it's the 10 or not). The internal HDD boots using the stock install of windows 7 home premium and the unit connects via a HDMI cable to a Samsung 32'' LCD TV and via an ethernet cable to a NETGEAR DG834G v3 router.
In windows I am able to browse the net perfectly fine with no connection issues, and I am able to browse all of the files on my NAS storage without any issues. The NAS is a WD MyBook Essential 1tb connected via a USB NAS Dongle, see here if it helps to know...
I installed XBMC onto the SD card using a burned disc on a 2nd PC (one with both an optical drive and a card reader) and subsequently transferred the SD card to the Revo which booted perfectly (well it needed a little screen resizing but thats not serious). I then decided to try and add a new source, the movie directory on the NAS drive.
I selected browse from the popup screen, selected Windows Network (SMB) as I assumed this meant that I would connect to the network all the other PCs were on, double clicked, and got a message saying...
ERROR
Error 2: share not available
So I thought this was a little odd and I tried the weather service, thinking... ok maybe its just the connection to the NAS, check the rest of the net... I had no luck there either. I also got no items retrieved when i tried to use the SVN REPO INSTALLER to try and download any skins etc.
At this point I decided to turn to the fount of all knowledge... google... where I found This. Most notably the post:
Well I thought to myself, I have nothing to loose so I tried it and low and behold... Nothing, great...
Now to quote exactly what is on my screen I have:
If its because I didn't get rid of that first line i'll be kicking myself but I didn't want to risk mistyping if i deleted something important and had to put it back.
To run through the router details in case it helps,
the IP address is 192.168.0.1
DHCP is turned on
IP Subnet mask is 255.255.255.0
Oh and i tried to ping one of the other connected PCs (192.168.0.2) and all I got back was destination host unreachable over and over...
I really hope someone can help me find out what is going on so I can fix it, i'd hate to go back to relying on the windows version.
Cheers
Speedy
Firstly I had probably best explain my setup:
I am running the 9.11 version of XBMC Live off of a 4gb SD card in an Acer Revo 36*0 (Cant remember if it's the 10 or not). The internal HDD boots using the stock install of windows 7 home premium and the unit connects via a HDMI cable to a Samsung 32'' LCD TV and via an ethernet cable to a NETGEAR DG834G v3 router.
In windows I am able to browse the net perfectly fine with no connection issues, and I am able to browse all of the files on my NAS storage without any issues. The NAS is a WD MyBook Essential 1tb connected via a USB NAS Dongle, see here if it helps to know...
I installed XBMC onto the SD card using a burned disc on a 2nd PC (one with both an optical drive and a card reader) and subsequently transferred the SD card to the Revo which booted perfectly (well it needed a little screen resizing but thats not serious). I then decided to try and add a new source, the movie directory on the NAS drive.
I selected browse from the popup screen, selected Windows Network (SMB) as I assumed this meant that I would connect to the network all the other PCs were on, double clicked, and got a message saying...
ERROR
Error 2: share not available
So I thought this was a little odd and I tried the weather service, thinking... ok maybe its just the connection to the NAS, check the rest of the net... I had no luck there either. I also got no items retrieved when i tried to use the SVN REPO INSTALLER to try and download any skins etc.
At this point I decided to turn to the fount of all knowledge... google... where I found This. Most notably the post:
Quote:I've had this same problem using XBMCLive and i've managed to find a fix for it.
Boot up into safe mode which gives you access to the terminal. User name is xbmc and password is xbmc. Then type sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces and press enter.
I deleted everything that was in there and changed it to this to set a static IP. There was some text at the top that i've deleted and can't remember what it was but i think it was this that was making my ETH1 connection be disabled. Once you've typed it in press CTRL X and Y to save your changes and then ENTER. Then it should work OK Took me ages to find the solution to this so I hope it helps someone
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address 192.168.1.65
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.254
dns-nameserver 192.168.1.254
Well I thought to myself, I have nothing to loose so I tried it and low and behold... Nothing, great...
Now to quote exactly what is on my screen I have:
Quote:# 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
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address 192.168.1.65
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.254
dns-nameserver 192.168.1.254
If its because I didn't get rid of that first line i'll be kicking myself but I didn't want to risk mistyping if i deleted something important and had to put it back.
To run through the router details in case it helps,
the IP address is 192.168.0.1
DHCP is turned on
IP Subnet mask is 255.255.255.0
Oh and i tried to ping one of the other connected PCs (192.168.0.2) and all I got back was destination host unreachable over and over...
I really hope someone can help me find out what is going on so I can fix it, i'd hate to go back to relying on the windows version.
Cheers
Speedy