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Installation issues / Re: network problems on new 8.10 beta

« on: October 18, 2009, 06:13:32 pm »

LinuxMCE turned out to be a not-so-good fit for me, I should have researched it better.
On a positive note I'll keep seeding the torrent for a while:)

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Installation issues / Re: network problems on new 8.10 beta

« on: October 17, 2009, 11:55:57 pm »

OK, I have one more question since I'm at the top of the forum and all............
Will I be able to use this in a one NIC setup, not as a gateway or dhcp server without sacrificing any small animals or anything like that?
My first exposure to <other than windows> was a gateway box that did teach me many things (freebsd 2.x, IPFW on a socket 5 computer, LOL) and I prefer hardware appliances for that now.

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Installation issues / Re: network problems on new 8.10 beta

« on: October 17, 2009, 10:48:01 pm »

I gave it another nic, enabled the onboard realtek and that worked (thank you very much!). It was ID'ed as eth1 and got an address from my router OK. I then have the install script running from the desktop. Thanks again for the tips. As I typed this mediatomb just came up as a UPNP device and I took a look into that. Fun times!

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Installation issues / Re: network problems on new 8.10 beta

« on: October 17, 2009, 08:36:30 pm »

Sorry guys, I did not look closely enough and really had no idea it must be the network gateway. I'll re-enable the onboard nic and hope it does not choose that one as the outward facing interface. If so I'll have to get the right parts and pieces to fix the realtek issue and burn a cd or put them on a thumb drive and mount that, and drag them over and fix it.
I won't be using it as my gateway and it will be the only media front end in our home.

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Installation issues / Re: network problems on new 8.10 beta

« on: October 17, 2009, 05:41:40 am »

I downloaded the 810 beta torrent that was new today. I chose the last option on the menu, install linuxMCE. I was planning on using it as a hybrid, as I understand the definition in the wiki.

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Installation issues / network problems on new 8.10 beta

« on: October 17, 2009, 03:27:47 am »

I am using:
A Gigabyte MA785GM-US2H motherboard with realtek 8169, I did read up about those problems.
I then tried a fresh install after I disabled the onboard NIC, using a very common Intel pro/100 PCI nic.
It was probed as an e100 in /var/log/dmesg and shows up as eth0 in the desktop network configurator as disconnected.
No amount messing around at the desktop would do anything, so I went to console.
I've tried editing /etc/network/interfaces manually to set it as either dhcp or with a static address. I can bring it up or down, but it never shows an address.
I tried all the same with an Intel Pro/1000MT as well.