Need help installing XBMCbuntu on Acer Revo R3700 please

pumkinut · 2012-04-11 21:22

You might, you could check to see if it's blacklisted or not with the following:

Code:

cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf | grep r8169

This command concatenates the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf (where kernel modules are blacklisted from loading), and then pipes that through grep (grep searches for patterns) which looks for r8169.

If the driver isn't on the blacklist, you can easily just do the following:

Code:

sudo echo blacklist r8169 >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

Which will insert the blacklist statement at the bottom of blacklist.conf.

pumkinut · 2012-04-12 04:35

One last thing. After the script runs, you'll need to reboot for everything to take effect. After the reboot, you can check to see if the correct driver is loaded by performing:

Code:

lsmod | grep r8168

If the command returns some output, then the driver is loaded and everything should be good.

Finchy · 2012-04-12 19:58

It did work fine last night, but then when I swithed it on this morning it didn't have LAN connection again.

I've just booted it back up and done the commands you mention above and get the following results;

Code:

cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf | grep r8169

gets

Code:

blacklist r8169

blacklist r8169

blacklist r8169

blacklist r8169

Code:

sudo echo blacklist r8169 >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

gets
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Code:

bash: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf: Permission denied

and

Code:

lsmod | grep r8168

gets

Code:

r8168                 202040  0

I also keep getting 'cannot connect to remote server' when it scans and tries to pick up art. Should I be putting in a proxy or webgateway address in somewhere so it knows how to get to the web servers to scrape?

And how do I blacklist the wireless network adapter, as I don't use that;

Code:

matthew@Revo:~$ lspci

00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge (rev 02)

1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)

1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)

1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)

1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)

1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)

1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)

1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)

1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)

1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)

1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)

1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02)

1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)

1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)

00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [ION] (rev a2)

00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)

00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe

00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)

pumkinut · 2012-04-12 23:00

Well, it looks like the r8168 driver is loading from the lsmod output, and your r8169 driver has been blacklisted (multiple times by the look of it).

The 8168 PHY is there and the driver is loaded, so the next step is to see if the interface is actually up or not. You can see this by issuing:

Code:

ifconfig

You should see an entry for eth0 along with address and statistics information. If it's not there then try:

Code:

sudo ifup eth0

This should enable eth0 if it's not active for some reason. If that fails there may be something else going on. You can see if the interface is failing during init by looking through dmesg for information regarding the NIC:

Code:

dmesg | grep eth0

Finchy · 2012-04-15 18:40

Ah, yes, I think it is correct then! Thanks!

Two last issues.... I still keep getting the failed to connect to remote server error, and I noticed that it looks like it's looking locally for the remote server. Should I set the proxy address to the gateway (ie the router's 192.168.1.1)? Or is it just a problem with Eden itself?

And where do I turn off the sounds effects?! The clicking and whooshing is driving my GF mad! Big Grin

Plaguester · 2012-04-15 18:56

Turn off skin sounds in the same screen that you set the skin. Settings > Appearance. One of the sound options will be "Off".

Finchy · 2012-04-15 19:03

Ah, ta, will do that!

Finchy · 2012-04-15 21:39

I really appreciate all the help you guys have given me on here, by the way! Thanks so much! Smile

pumkinut · 2012-04-15 23:04

You shouldn't set up a proxy address, that's only if you need one for internet access. How are you trying to connect to your servers? Are you trying by name? NetBIOS name resolution doesn't always work that well. It's usually better to connect via IP address and then share name. In XBMC, when you want to set up your video and audio sources, you can do the following if it's a network share.
Select "Add Videos" or Music, whatever the case is.
Hightlight "None" and select it.
Under "Enter the paths or browse for the media locations. Put the following:

Code:

smb://<user>:<password>@<ip.of.smb.server>/<share>

This adds an SMB/Samba share a.k.a. a Windows share.

If you can ping the server by IP address, try the above. If you can't ping it, then you have deeper problems.

Another thing you can do is mount your shares during boot via /etc/fstab, and then point XBMC to the mounted shares instead of the network location. Here's my fstab file from my AppleTV gen1:

Code:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.

#

# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>

proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0

# /dev/sda3

/dev/sda3               /               ext3    noatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1

# /dev/sda2

/dev/sda2               none            swap    sw              0       0

#Movies

//10.10.10.5/Video      /media/movies   cifs    ro,iocharset=utf8,credentials=/home/atv/.smbcred,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755 0 0

#Television

//10.10.10.6/Television /media/television cifs  ro,iocharset=utf8,credentials=/home/atv/.smbcred,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755 0 0

#Animation

//10.10.10.10/Animation /media/animation cifs   ro,iocharset=utf8,credentials=/home/atv/.smbcred,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755 0 0

#Kids

//10.10.10.9/Kids       /media/kids     cifs    ro,iocharset=utf8,credentials=/home/atv/.smbcred,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755 0 0

The last four entries are my network shares. I've connected via read-only (ro) and the share credentials you can do one of two ways. You can either specify username=<username> and password=<password> in the fstab lines, or you can do what I did and create a credentials file, in my case /home/atv/.smbcred in which the contents are simply:

Code:

username=<username>

password=<password>

You do need to chmod the credentials file to 600, ala

Code:

sudo chmod 600 /home/atv/.smbcred

Finchy · 2012-04-16 19:40

Yes, I've definately a connection out and ping ping local and internet addresses.

What I did notice is that when I (for example) refresh the info on a TV show it does pull in so much info and fanart, but when I select extras and look to choose other fanart, etc only the local one is avialble. The rest all have a blank polaroid type icon and at the boom they say the path is 'fanart://Remote0', 'fanart://Remote1', etc. It's like it's looking for somewhere local for certain data, and that's the same on all three devices (ATV2, XBMCbuntu and my Windows laptop, which I'm also using for testing the syncing).

I've tried adding the IP address, usrrname and password but it's just doing the same. Sad

That last paragraph scared me......!

pumkinut Posting Freak Posts: 875 Joined: May 2006 Reputation: 9	2012-04-12 04:35 Post: #42 One last thing. After the script runs, you'll need to reboot for everything to take effect. After the reboot, you can check to see if the correct driver is loaded by performing: Code: `lsmod \| grep r8168` If the command returns some output, then the driver is loaded and everything should be good.
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Finchy Senior Member Posts: 154 Joined: Dec 2010 Reputation: 0	2012-04-15 19:03 Post: #47 Ah, ta, will do that!
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Finchy Senior Member Posts: 154 Joined: Dec 2010 Reputation: 0	2012-04-15 21:39 Post: #48 I really appreciate all the help you guys have given me on here, by the way! Thanks so much!
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