Network can't connect

[BlueBomber]

Hi everybody - I'm pretty new to OpenELEC and Linux, so please bear with me !

Last night I downloaded the Generic OSS build (OpenELEC 2.0 (Beta 3) - 1.95.3 - i386 (107 MB) MD5) and loaded it onto my old machine via USB. Install was very fast and smooth. Everything seems to work great, except for the network.

I've played around with the OpenELEC network settings (tried eth0 and eth1, set to LAN, no static IP, etc), but I can't seem to get the thing to be able to talk with my router via my built in LAN. I assume it's a driver issue, but I don't know how to be sure. Could be user error for all I know!

I'm using an old ASUS P4800D-X with an Intel P4 2.4ghz CPU.

Link to my motherboard on ASUS site: http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_S...ifications

Would anybody be able to tell me if my built in LAN controller is compatible, or explain to me how to check? If it is not compatible, do I simply need to purchase a separate network card?

Thanks!

Paul

[BlueBomber]

Well, surprised to see that my network works just fine if I load from XBMCuntu...too bad it caps my CPU at 100% just browsing the menu system for whatever reason.

The Generic OSS build of OpenELEC runs very smooth, it's just too bad that the lack of a network driver severely hinders my build :-(.

Does anybody have any ideas? Am I simply setting somewthing up wrong in the OpenELEC network settings?

[Burke]

well i am pretty new to this to so am not 100% shore abut this,

have you tried leaving everything on default - dhcp on your router should assign address to your system (just to rule out possibility of miss configuration).

You can,t access internet from your machine or you can not access shares on your OE machine or both, when you set default values and go to your network menu - do you have address assigned? Have you turned on proxy in network settings?

[BlueBomber]

When I loaded up XBMCuntu, it connected to the router out of the box. No configuration was needed on my end. With OpenELEC, there is no connection whatsoever, even after trying to manually configure from the OpenELEC Settings program, which leads me to believe that it's simply a lack of driver issue.

This is all with the 'Generic OSS' build. The Generic build freezes on startup at the splash screen, so I am unable to use that :-(.

Any idea how to get my network driver added to the next release?

[Burke]

I am just and en user like you, switched here from XBMC win OS, so I can't help you here, just thought you are new to this all and have miss configured OE.

I don't know how to check if driver is loaded - did find some topics abut that on forum try searching some more...


You can try to submit bug report here

[chewitt]

If you add "debugging" to the kernel parameters in extlinux.cfg you enable a local console on CTRL+ALT+F3 that gives access to the system via keyboard to run useful commands. Save the output to text files and copy to a USB drive so that you can share the content via pastebin (or similar). I'm interested in the output of:

Code:

dmesg
lspci -vvv

From that we can see what realtek chipset is on the board, and if any drivers are being loaded.

[chewitt]

"debugging" will also cause logfiles like /var/log/messages (which contains dmesg output) to persist over a reboot, so if you're booting from a USB stick you can remove the USB and attach it to a Linux VM to read the files, which might be easier..