Jetway Mini-TOP HBJC600C99-52W-BW - New Ion 2, Intel Atom D525 1.8GHz barebone nettop

speed32219 · 2011-03-23 06:35

joelones Wrote:Just wondering if there was a way to get analog audio out via the headphone (spdif) jack? I would like to connect this box to a CRT tv with standard rca audio in. Any advice?

I don't see an output for analog audio.

You can, I get analogue, optical and hdmi. You need to configure a good working .asoundrc file. If you want I will post mine.

Your aplay -l
card 1: default [USB PnP Sound Device ], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
card 1 device 0 is the key to what you want.

Set autido to ANalog and the next passthrough or next one you can change to USB PNP IEC958.

The Optical port and Analogue port are the same (Combo), just like the Esata is also another usb. They have dual functionality, pretty kool stuff.

Davemex: same thing, a good .asoundrc as well as settings within XBMC audio. USB PNP IEC958 on both (Or the NVidia one from bottom of the above .asoundrc) and otpical on Audio. I think, its been a while.

speed32219 · 2011-03-23 07:23

godfreydanials Wrote:Thanks for the input. The cheapest 8 GB SSD I have seen is $40. I paid $7 for the 8 GB thumb drive I am useing. Do you know someplace they are cheaper? I can't image one would be worth a $33 difference.

Your 8GB thumb has about a 15-20 MB read vs 75-90 MB with the SSD. Much faster boot as well as normal operation. Sometimes you may notice a jerkiness through the XBMC screens with your remote, that is your usb slow flash. I have CF cards. Flash (Found Patriot Xporter XT to be good for a usb flash but still slow) and HD's. Due to costs, I have been using HD's, got a 320GB free the other day from Newegg on a promo. They are quick, quiet, green (3W MAx)and proven plus cheaper with greater density. My notebook drive is 8 years old and still runs great. MHO. WHen prices get much, much, much more reasonable I will get a 8GB mini PCIe and put it in the wifi slot as my boot drive.

speed32219 · 2011-03-23 07:32

Code:

sudo nano .asoundrc      

pcm.hdmi03 {

    type hw

    card 0

    device 3

}

pcm.!default hdmi03

pcm.dmixer {

type dmix

ipc_key 1024

ipc_key_add_uid false

ipc_perm 0660

slave {

 pcm "hw:1,0"

rate 48000

channels 2

period_time 0

period_size 1024

buffer_time 0

buffer_size 4096

}

}

pcm.!default {

type plug

slave.pcm "dmixer"

}

pcm:iec958 hdmi:NVidia

CTRL + O + Enter to write, CTRL X to exit

godfreydanials · 2011-03-26 14:51

speed32219 Wrote:Your 8GB thumb has about a 15-20 MB read vs 75-90 MB with the SSD. Much faster boot as well as normal operation. Sometimes you may notice a jerkiness through the XBMC screens with your remote, that is your usb slow flash. I have CF cards. Flash (Found Patriot Xporter XT to be good for a usb flash but still slow) and HD's. Due to costs, I have been using HD's, got a 320GB free the other day from Newegg on a promo. They are quick, quiet, green (3W MAx)and proven plus cheaper with greater density. My notebook drive is 8 years old and still runs great. MHO. WHen prices get much, much, much more reasonable I will get a 8GB mini PCIe and put it in the wifi slot as my boot drive.

You are right about the boot time; It is slow... However, once xbmc-live is running, all is well. I see no delay changing between screens, unless I open an nfs share to a NAS drive where the disk has powered down. Then it takes a few seconds for the NAS and automounter to do their thing.

speed32219 or josh4trunks,
I am having difficulty getting this Jetway to work with my wireless WPA-PSK network. Did you have to install any additional packages to get yours going?
Can you share what you did?

speed32219 · 2011-03-26 17:14

godfreydanials Wrote:You are right about the boot time; It is slow... However, once xbmc-live is running, all is well. I see no delay changing between screens, unless I open an nfs share to a NAS drive where the disk has powered down. Then it takes a few seconds for the NAS and automounter to do their thing.

speed32219 or josh4trunks,
I am having difficulty getting this Jetway to work with my wireless WPA-PSK network. Did you have to install any additional packages to get yours going?
Can you share what you did?

Search this thread for a post by me.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=78722&page=10

godfreydanials · 2011-03-26 23:36

speed32219 Wrote:Search this thread for a post by me.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=78722&page=10

speed32219,

That thread is THIS thread. The only posts I see here from you about wifi are:
1) It sucks on this box
2) You should have left the wifi section in your instructions. Can you point me to a thread that contains your wifi instructions?

I did a global search for you you and wifi, finding the exchange between you and angrycamel, where you recommended downing eth0 to use wlan0. I will try that as soon as I get access to the Jetway.

Thanks for the help.

speed32219 · 2011-03-27 06:47

godfreydanials Wrote:speed32219,

That thread is THIS thread. The only posts I see here from you about wifi are:
1) It sucks on this box
2) You should have left the wifi section in your instructions. Can you point me to a thread that contains your wifi instructions?

I did a global search for you you and wifi, finding the exchange between you and angrycamel, where you recommended downing eth0 to use wlan0. I will try that as soon as I get access to the Jetway.

Thanks for the help.

POST #129 on page 10. It also give steps to install wifi and wpa.
Starting with
sudo apt-get install wireless-tools
sudo apt-get install wpasupplicant

And then instructions on how to setup wpa 2, whcih I use. Davemex had no problem, which was my answer to his post.

godfreydanials · 2011-03-29 16:25

Thank you. For some reason, post 129 is showing up on page 13 for me. I did read your post. I used it as a template to create my /etc/network/interfaces file. I did install the wireless-tools and wpasupplicant. Following another thread, I also installed the 80211 framework. I am not sure that was the right thing to do. My driver is bound to the chip, but I show zero packets TX or RX and Access Point: Not-Associated.

Can you post your output of lsmod | grep ath? This is what I get:
http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/586880/plain/

speed32219 · 2011-03-30 01:41

godfreydanials Wrote:Thank you. For some reason, post 129 is showing up on page 13 for me. I did read your post. I used it as a template to create my /etc/network/interfaces file. I did install the wireless-tools and wpasupplicant. Following another thread, I also installed the 80211 framework. I am not sure that was the right thing to do. My driver is bound to the chip, but I show zero packets TX or RX and Access Point: Not-Associated.

Can you post your output of lsmod | grep ath? This is what I get:
http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/586880/plain/

Here ya go!
ath9k 88884 0
ath9k_common 5982 1 ath9k
ath9k_hw 292329 2 ath9k,ath9k_common
ath 8153 2 ath9k,ath9k_hw
mac80211 231959 2 ath9k,ath9k_common
cfg80211 144694 4 ath9k,ath9k_common,ath,mac80211
led_class 2633 1 ath9k

lspci -vv
03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
Subsystem: Device 1a3b:1089
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
Region 0: Memory at febf0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
Kernel modules: ath9k

I would remove 80211 framework. Do not need it, Maverick 10.10 loads and recognizes the device. If you set it up properly in interfaces and have setup your wireless router properly, should come up right away. That is if you have it close by the wireless GW.

godfreydanials · 2011-04-07 02:34

speed32219 Wrote:Here ya go!
ath9k 88884 0
ath9k_common 5982 1 ath9k
ath9k_hw 292329 2 ath9k,ath9k_common
ath 8153 2 ath9k,ath9k_hw
mac80211 231959 2 ath9k,ath9k_common
cfg80211 144694 4 ath9k,ath9k_common,ath,mac80211
led_class 2633 1 ath9k

lspci -vv
03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
Subsystem: Device 1a3b:1089
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
Region 0: Memory at febf0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
Kernel modules: ath9k

I would remove 80211 framework. Do not need it, Maverick 10.10 loads and recognizes the device. If you set it up properly in interfaces and have setup your wireless router properly, should come up right away. That is if you have it close by the wireless GW.

speed32219,

This all looks the same as mine. I could not use your /etc/network/interfaces file without modification, since my network is running WPA2/PSK with AES encryption, not TKIP. I could not figure out why it was working intermittently, until I realized I had conflicting settings in a /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file. I removed that file and set everyting in the interfaces file. Now the wireless is stable.

This was an experiment to test the xbmc bandwidth requirements on the Jetway and capabilities of my network. I am useing nfs v3 through an 802.11g router. 720p video is just fine, but the high action scenes in 1080p require buffering every 5 minutes or so. These same movies are just fine over 100 mb Ethernet. I guess it is time to look for a deal on an 802.11n router that will run DD-WRT firmware.

Are you useing yours with an n router? If so, which one?
Thanks again for all the help.