2010-10-19, 01:35
I am able to use cURL to see websites from the console but from within the XBMC gui none of the networking features work (weather, feeds, and SMB).
I have been posting over in the Zbox thread but since my problem seems to be pretty specific to me, I figured I would make a new thread for it. I really hope someone can help me figure this one out as it's driving me a little crazy
I've got XBMCFreak running off of a 4GB Patriot USB stick right now. I have everything working except for the wireless. At first my problem with connecting wireless appeared to be related to the signal strength of the internal wireless card so I installed a USB Wifi dongle. That is installed and configured now but I still am not connecting through XBMC. I am able to go to the console and ping any site with success. I even used cURL to pull down a couple URLs just to make sure everything was configured properly for the wireless dongle (I used wicd-curses to configure the connection) and it worked fine.
The problem comes when I switch back to the XBMC interface and it cannot see anything on the web or the local network. The log says cURL is returning a type 6 error (cannot resolve host) when trying to load the weather and feed urls.
A similar issue when I try to add an SMB source to the videos section
Oddly enough I cannot SSH into the machine (from Putty on my XP machine) either while it is connected via wireless. I can SSH to localhost through the console so it is running. Putty gives me a message saying "Network error: Connection timed out"
When I switch from wireless to a wired connection everything works fine.
Help! I am at my wits end with this thing!
Edit: Added wireless environment info
My router is a modem/router provided to me by Verizon for the FiOS internet service. I am connected using WPA2 security.
(This is a double post, since I posted in the wrong forum at first thinking this was a problem with my hardware. Can an admin please close the double post at http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=83446)
I have been posting over in the Zbox thread but since my problem seems to be pretty specific to me, I figured I would make a new thread for it. I really hope someone can help me figure this one out as it's driving me a little crazy
I've got XBMCFreak running off of a 4GB Patriot USB stick right now. I have everything working except for the wireless. At first my problem with connecting wireless appeared to be related to the signal strength of the internal wireless card so I installed a USB Wifi dongle. That is installed and configured now but I still am not connecting through XBMC. I am able to go to the console and ping any site with success. I even used cURL to pull down a couple URLs just to make sure everything was configured properly for the wireless dongle (I used wicd-curses to configure the connection) and it worked fine.
The problem comes when I switch back to the XBMC interface and it cannot see anything on the web or the local network. The log says cURL is returning a type 6 error (cannot resolve host) when trying to load the weather and feed urls.
Code:
23:27:51 T:2994469744 M:1954156544 INFO: WEATHER: Downloading weather
23:27:51 T:2994469744 M:1954156544 DEBUG: SECTION:LoadDLL(libcurl-gnutls.so.4)
23:27:51 T:2994469744 M:1954029568 DEBUG: Loading: libcurl-gnutls.so.4
23:27:51 T:2994469744 M:1954029568 DEBUG: FileCurl::Open(0xb27be0ec) http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/USNY0996?cc=*&unit=m&dayf=4&prod=xoap&link=xoap&par=1004124588&key=079f24145f208494
23:27:51 T:2994469744 M:1953902592 INFO: easy_aquire - Created session to http://xoap.weather.com
23:27:51 T:2994469744 M:1953902592 WARNING: FillBuffer: curl failed with code 6
23:27:51 T:2994469744 M:1953902592 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream.
23:27:51 T:2994469744 M:1953902592 DEBUG: FileCurl::Close(0xb27be0ec) http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/USNY0996?cc=*&unit=m&dayf=4&prod=xoap&link=xoap&par=1004124588&key=079f24145f208494
23:27:51 T:2994469744 M:1953902592 ERROR: WEATHER: Weather download failed!
A similar issue when I try to add an SMB source to the videos section
Code:
23:28:50 T:3079456640 M:1936887808 DEBUG: OnKey: 61453 pressed, action is Select
23:28:50 T:2994469744 M:1936887808 DEBUG: OpenDir - Using authentication url smb://
23:28:50 T:2994469744 M:1936887808 ERROR: SMBDirectory->GetDirectory: Unable to open directory : 'smb://'
unix_err:'2' error : 'No such file or directory'
23:28:50 T:3079456640 M:1936887808 INFO: Loading skin file: DialogOK.xml
23:28:50 T:3079456640 M:1936887808 DEBUG: Load DialogOK.xml: 4.34ms
Oddly enough I cannot SSH into the machine (from Putty on my XP machine) either while it is connected via wireless. I can SSH to localhost through the console so it is running. Putty gives me a message saying "Network error: Connection timed out"
When I switch from wireless to a wired connection everything works fine.
Help! I am at my wits end with this thing!
Edit: Added wireless environment info
My router is a modem/router provided to me by Verizon for the FiOS internet service. I am connected using WPA2 security.
(This is a double post, since I posted in the wrong forum at first thinking this was a problem with my hardware. Can an admin please close the double post at http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=83446)