2010-09-16, 14:26
twinflower Wrote:I have a Shuttle XS35GT shipped to me as we speak, and I am eager to try out the LIVE xbmc
Well, all I can tell you after installing XBMC Dharma beta 2 Live onto my XS35GT is:
1. I burned the image onto the USB memory stick using UNETBOOTIN, so that the image is burned to the stick and is bootable.
2. I went into the XS35GT BIOS and enabled the USB stick to be the first bootable device, SSD as the second bootable device.
3. It wouldn't boot. I discovered this was a USB stick that the XS35GT didn't like booting off. Then I burned the image to a second different make/model of USB memory stick: Sandisk Cruzer Contour 8GB and the XS35GT booted successfully off it.
4. XBMC live installer worked fine, except it didn't detect the JMC261 so it said 'no network interface detected'. Bummer!
5. After installation and rebooting, XBMC booted successfully from the SSD (OCZ Onyx 32GB) and XBMC was running. I tested it by watching a film off a USB memory stick and it worked.
twinflower Wrote:(Some say there are certain issues with ION2 and linux/xbmc, so that is somewhat exciting as well..)
Well, let's hope nothing too serious. Once I get this network problem sorted out then I'll hook it up to the HD TV and see what it can do, configure it a bit more etc...
If you solve the wired network problem before me, I'll be happy to hear from you
So far I've installed the same Ubuntu kernel version on my Mac as a VM and downloaded the hopefully compatible driver source code from: ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmc2xx/Linux/
This source is for jmc2xx which hopefully means it should work for the JMC261 wired network.
I built the jme.ko file (the driver), using instructions in the readme.txt file at the jmicron link above, and copied it onto a USB stick, inserted it into the XS35GT, mounted it, copied the jme.ko to /lib/modules/2.6.32-21-generic/kernel/drivers/net/ and then executed "modprobe jme" as root, but it says 'FATAL: Module jme.ko not found.'. I'm not a Linux expert so I expect I have to do some extra steps before the modprobe, but that's my next homework...