[LIVE] HOW-TO easily configure wireless network for XBMC Live installations

pumkinut Wrote:How did you create the thumbdrive XBMC? If you used the BDW (Bootable Disk Wizard), you should have been prompted as to how much space to make available for persistence. The persistence part of this is what allows you to save configuration information across reboots, as it writes the information to the thumbdrive. Without persistence all config changes are just written to RAM, which is then lost across a power cycle. This is most likely why you have to redownload everything each time.

The BDW is available in the Add Ons section of XBMC from Dharma b1 on, IIRC. You should be able to burn the ISO to CD, boot from that, and then create a thumbdrive install with persistence.

I created my XBMCLive using LinuxLive with 400MB of persistence memory, however I am still not able to gert this to work. I have tried installing from XBMCLive Persistence, and from XBMCLive SafeMode, but every time I reboot I have to reinstall.

Any help?

gilphilbert Wrote:So, you don't have a wired connection. Don't worry, generous as I am, I've created a tar file with all the required files and a simple install script. Download it from here:

http://www.filesonic.com/file/71484729/w...dharma.tar

Can someone reupload this file? Filesonic disabled their sharing. Thanks.

when i put:
apt-get install wicd-curses

i get :
not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock
unable to write to /var/cache/apt/
the package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened

what am i doing wrong?

If you have done

iwconfig and you are sure you have a device also try running wicd-curses, then do a shift+p (must be a capital P). This will take you to a preferences menu. If like me you have run wicd-curses with an ethernet cable in there will NOT be a wlan device set. I entered wlan0 and it worked.....just a long time to find a dynamic IP.... that next I suppose [/quote]

(2012-02-12 19:07)dlinao23 Wrote:  

gilphilbert Wrote:So, you don't have a wired connection. Don't worry, generous as I am, I've created a tar file with all the required files and a simple install script. Download it from here:

http://www.filesonic.com/file/71484729/w...dharma.tar

Can someone reupload this file? Filesonic disabled their sharing. Thanks.

I'm a little late but I uploaded the tar file in question. Maybe it'll help (although I'm not sure if it only works with Dharma):

http://goo.gl/sf98h

I've got this working i can connect fine however when i reboot into xbmc it shows as disconnected then after a minute or two it will eventually pick up an ip address, anyone else get this or know what i might be doing wrong?

You don't need to reboot to get back to xbmc. IIRC the keyboard shortcut is CTRL, ALT AND F7 to get back to XBMC (it's been a while so I might be wrong). If you do reboot then it's normal that it needs to reconnect again.

Yeah i see that it would need to reconnect after a reboot but it seems to be taking a long time before it would connect to the wireless.