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- TheNomad - 2010-06-08

Kinda newbie question but I can not find a similar situation scanning all 60 pages of this discussion in the past couple of days.

Followed the instruction, used unetbootin to install from the iso image (for nvidia ion on acer revo distro, linked from the initial post). Replaced boot=cd to boot=usb in all places in the config file. Modified bios to make USB as my first boot option. I also booted into safe mode and created a 1000M local storage space following the instructions elsewhere on this forum. Everything ran fine, no error messages of any sort. Shutdown -r. System reboot. Hung on the flashing xbmc splash screen. It flashed about 5 times and freezes flashing and nothing happens.

Burned the iso image to a cd and put it on an external usb cdwriter. F12, then select boot device as cdrw drive. Live version boots up perfectly fine, giving me the standard xbmc interface.

What do I need to do additionally to make my usb stick image work ?

Thanks in advance

- anthony522 - 2010-06-08

TheNomad Wrote:Kinda newbie question but I can not find a similar situation scanning all 60 pages of this discussion in the past couple of days.

Followed the instruction, used unetbootin to install from the iso image (for nvidia ion on acer revo distro, linked from the initial post). Replaced boot=cd to boot=usb in all places in the config file. Modified bios to make USB as my first boot option. I also booted into safe mode and created a 1000M local storage space following the instructions elsewhere on this forum. Everything ran fine, no error messages of any sort. Shutdown -r. System reboot. Hung on the flashing xbmc splash screen. It flashed about 5 times and freezes flashing and nothing happens.

Burned the iso image to a cd and put it on an external usb cdwriter. F12, then select boot device as cdrw drive. Live version boots up perfectly fine, giving me the standard xbmc interface.

What do I need to do additionally to make my usb stick image work ?

Thanks in advance

I did none of that to get my working so I can't be too much help there. Here were my steps:

1. I downloaded the XBMCFreak build v13 (found here http://homepage.eircom.net/~rock2002/XBMC/xbmcfreak911livev13.iso or here http://xbmcfreak.binkey.nl/xbmcfreak911livev13.iso)

2. I then followed the steps exactly here http://www.interworks.com/blogs/rboyles/2010/01/31/hd-playback-xbmc-acer-aspire-revo (I used the ISO from above though, not the one linked from that post)

3. After installing my audio sounded "fuzzy" so I updated my NVIDIA drivers by following these instructions http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=545364&postcount=9 and everything is now working perfectly.

Hope that helps.

- TheNomad - 2010-06-08

Thanks for the suggestion. When I get back home tonight, I will give your method a try.

My symptom of freezing at such an early stage of startup, is resembling to a driver issue, or may be a dynamically loadable kernel module issue but I don;t know enough about the innards of xbmc code base and have no intention to go that deep. I do unix stuff for living 10 hours a day and have no desire to spend my off time digging into unix again. Quite counter productive Smile

If anyone else has any other take, I am all ears and as usual thanks in advance.

- playaz - 2010-06-13

Has anyone managed to get XBMC Live to work with an internet connection? If so can anyone explain how to set this up as i've got no ideas?

thanks in advance

- Tsuris - 2010-06-13

Do you mean a web browser, just network access, or wifi? I didn't even try the first/last, but it works out of the box with a wired network connection.

- schneidz - 2010-06-14

if you are talking about wireless this should help:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=513579&highlight=iwconfig#post513579

- FlyingNun - 2010-06-15

I ended up just installin 9.11 directly to revo...i do not believe i have ever updated the drivers for NVIDIA. is there a way to tell? from here what do i need to do? just download drivers to a USB stick and then boot from the USB? then just install drivers from there?

- elmattarino - 2010-06-18

Having issues getting connected to internet. I have the Revo 3610 so my lspci and lsusb are already posted on page 49. My issue is I don't think I set up my wireless properly when I installed. When in confluence looking at the "System Info - Network Information" option in shows my link as "not connected.

I'm very much so a linux noob and running xbmcfreakv14 for the boot so my drivers should be good.

ifconfig is as follows...
etho0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 90:fb:a6:30:94:9c
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)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6adr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:54 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:54 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3200 (3.2 KB) TX bytes:3200 (3.2 KB)

ifconfig -a...
etho0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 90:fb:a6:30:94:9c
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

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6adr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3440 (3.4 KB) TX bytes:3440 (3.4 KB)

iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions

I've tried the mentioned http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=513579&postcount=486 but to no avail.

sudo iwlist device scan...
device Interface doesn't support scanning

sudo dhclient...
...no DHCPOFFERS

In short... I'm trying to access my NAS where all of my music/videos/tv are stored. I'm really not concerned about the internet as I have more computers in the house than people.

I think it was my initial setup due to Verizon Fios WEP requirements so it's not connecting but I'm not sure since like I said, I am no good at Linux.

Will be toying with it until I get it to work.

Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions.

Matt

- schneidz - 2010-06-18

^ i have a revo 3610 as well. if you do an lspci you could find out the manufacturer of your wifi card. i think it is made by ralink and the linux drivers are on their website:
http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2

for some reason i had to copy some parameters file to someplace like /etc/Wireless/RT3090STE/rt3090ste.conf becasue the driver wont load without it.

- elmattarino - 2010-06-18

schneidz Wrote:^ i have a revo 3610 as well. if you do an lspci you could find out the manufacturer of your wifi card. i think it is made by ralink and the linux drivers are on their website:
http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2

for some reason i had to copy some parameters file to someplace like /etc/Wireless/RT3090STE/rt3090ste.conf becasue the driver wont load without it.

If I load it to my USB, how would I go about installing the new drivers? I'm a total linux noob.

- schneidz - 2010-06-19

you can either plug it into a ethernet router and ssh into it or you can plug a usb keyboard in and hold down ctrl-alt-f2 and log in (xbmc/xbmc).
you mite need an internet connection to apt get install gcc to compile the wireless driver.

- elmattarino - 2010-06-19

I got it to recognize the wireless device as ra0 and now am trying to find the post where it showed how to set it up with WEP encryption...

Editing because I posted before I restarted...

- schneidz - 2010-06-19

^ i dont use wep but something like this should do it:

Code:
sudo iwconfig ra0 essid MyNet

sudo iwconfig ra0 key xxxxxxxxxx

sudo ifconfig ra0 up

sudo dhclient3 ra0

To have it done automatically, edit the "/etc/network/interface" entry for your wi-fi card and include the options you need. Like :

Code:
# The primary network interface

iface ra0 inet dhcp

wireless-essid XXXXXXXXXXX

wireless-key XXXXXXXX

- elmattarino - 2010-06-19

It doesn't seem to be working. It's giving me...

No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

in the iwconfig it's showing

Code:
ra0       Ralink STA  ESSID:""  Nickname:"RT2860STA"

          Mode:Auto  Frequency=2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated

          Bit Rate:1 Mb/s

          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off

          Link Quality=10/100  Signal level:0 dBm  Noise level:-115 dBm

          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0

          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

and in the iwlist scan it's showing

Code:
ra0       Scan completed :

          Cell 01 - Address: 00:21:63:2C:CC:1E

                    Protocol:802.11b/g

                    ESSID:"DJU6K"

                    Mode:Managed

                    Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)

                    Quality:100/100  Signal level:-19 dBm  Noise level:-92 dBm

                    Encryption key:on

                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s

DJU6K is what I want to connect to so I'm currently searching for how to tie the two together... Any advice is welcome!

- elmattarino - 2010-06-19

It's up and running now! Not sure exactly what I did to get it going but I think adding WICD helped. Now all I have to do is figure out how to change the audio from HDMI to Optical...