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Installation issues / It can be done!

« on: September 06, 2007, 03:50:41 pm »

quoting Frankstein Junior!

So, this post is to inform all the LinuxMCE community that, at last and after many problems (not all caused by LinuxMCE including a bios reflash, a couple of burnt internal cables, and endless hours spent installing and reinstalling the system) now it (mostly) works!
I'll post a detailed hardware configuration later in the Wiki, but the bulk of my system (core/hybrid) is a MEGA MSI-850 barebone system (a strange hybrid of pc and hi-fi) with a Hauppauge PVR-350 card (configured as PVR-250) and an NVIDIA GEForce TI 4200.

I would like to thank everybody who partecipated in development of this wonderful (but not yet very user friendly) system... too often I've seen post with people complaining when something doesn't work out of the box, but with some google-ing and a lo of patience...
IT CAN BE DONE! 

Cheers and thanks again!

 

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Installation issues / Re: No media - pnp doesn't seem to work!

« on: September 06, 2007, 03:46:10 pm »

Finally, as I say, it is constantly detecting the DCEROUTER and "file server" again and again, with the messages below, and the little log messages appear in the top left corner of the screen ... that can't be right, but it is even displaying repeated messages about the DCEROUTER....

Any other thoughts?

My first post here! 

About the detecting DCE router it was happening ro me as well: I have a single ethernet card configuration (I tried using an USB WLAN stick as internal lan but failed miserably  ) with double IP configuration.
Eth0 was set to retrieve ip from DHCP server (my adsl modem/router) while eth0:0 in my idea was to be the dhcp server for the internal lan.
Well, was pretty stupid from me to expect that it would have worked! What in truth happened was that eth0 was receiving its IP address from the dhcp server running on eth0:0, so LinuxMCE PnP thought to have detected a new windows share and started asking what to do about it.
I had to go to "my devices" and manually delete the wrong "DCERouter file server" it had found after having  reconfigured my network.
Hope this can help you.