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Users / Re: Windows shared directories

« on: August 28, 2008, 05:49:18 pm »

You may also try adding a password to the folders.  I fought with my DNS-323 to access shared media as you did, but I don't have any pictures, so I can't say that I experienced exactly the same symptoms as you.  At any rate, the media would not show when I didn't have a username and password set (the "password required" radio button was not checked but the "online" radio button was checked.). 

By simply adding a password and checking the "password required" radio button, my media started populating the Audio and Video menus in LMCE.

Just my $0.02

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Installation issues / Re: Your CPU does not support long mode. Use a 32 bit distribution.

« on: August 28, 2008, 04:19:33 pm »

Thanks for the help- that would have been a good thing to try.  As it is, we're having guests over tonight and I wanted to show it off so I canned the system last night and did a full reinstall.  Pretty cool that you can go from a zeroed harddrive to having home automation in 30 minutes or so.  Afterwards, the i386 system booted and configured without a hitch.  Incidentally, I stopped by a Kaleidescape dealer the other day just to see what they had to offer.... ended up walking out feeling pretty good that to get the basic system that I'm running at home would cost somewhere on the order of $100k from Kaleidescape.  Cha-ching.

They may have one up on this project though- the guy I spoke with said that they could flush toilets using Crestron...

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Installation issues / Re: Your CPU does not support long mode. Use a 32 bit distribution.

« on: August 28, 2008, 12:52:01 am »

No, I didn't delete the "installation" files, I deleted the device from the media directors page.  My previous post was ambiguous at best, and probably just confusing.

Do you know why if all I did was delete the media director without changing any other files, that on the next restart it wouldn't announce itself to the core, get a new ip address and reinstall as a new media director instead of what it does with the 32bit long mode?

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Installation issues / Your CPU does not support long mode. Use a 32 bit distribution.

« on: August 27, 2008, 01:56:39 am »

I just started getting the above error when trying to boot a media director.

This is for the same setup as I've posted on before (Asus_M3A78-EM with AMD 64bit 4200+) using the 64bit DVD installation.  I was trying to get my N810 working with the above setup and ended up deleting the installation information for the 32bit computer- oops.

So, this computer had been working with this setup and then I deleted it.  For whatever reason, now when I try to PXE boot into it, I can get an ip address from the server and it begins the data transfer, but then kicks out with the above error.

I have another 64bit computer that I was able to get everything installed using....

I am unable to disable ACPI completely, it just says there are different modes that I can change it to.  It was working, now it's not, not sure why.

Any ideas?

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Users / Re: DHCP server on both NICs

« on: August 20, 2008, 12:12:51 am »

M3A78-EM does not work for either AMD64 or the i386 DVD installations- maybe with the 810 version of LMCE.

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Users / Re: DHCP server on both NICs

« on: August 19, 2008, 05:39:41 pm »

OK, back to the M3A78-EM.

I've updated the http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Asus_M3A78-EM but still am having problems with the NIC. 

I have completely reinstalled LMCE 710 from the AMD 64 DVD and put eth0 (my onboard NIC) as the external network NIC, and put eth1 as the internal network NIC.  On install, it has them the other way so I go into the admin pages and switch them. 

I don't remember, but I am pretty sure that on install the MAC address of the onboard nic is recognized, but it doesn't get a IP from the cable modem.  I followed the directions provided with the motherboard to install drivers for the nic.  What seems odd, is that I install drivers named r8168, but when I run "ethtool -i eth0" it says I am using driver r8169.

Kubuntu (under network settings) says that the device state is "Enabled" and has a green check mark next to it.  I have tried assigning an ip address manually, but I still have no connection.  "ethtool eth0" states that:  "Link detected:  no".


Any ideas?

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Installation issues / Re: Two NIC problem

« on: August 15, 2008, 09:52:53 pm »

It sounds like you're having a similar issue as me:  http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=5995.0  are you, by chance, running the 64 bit AMD version?

I was hoping to look at it again this weekend.  For now, I disabled the onboard NIC, installed a new NIC (fortunately my board has 2 pci ports) and reinstalled LMCE- now everything works great.  I did a quick google search, and I'm pretty sure our onboard nics are fairly different- you're not alone.

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Users / Re: DHCP server on both NICs

« on: August 14, 2008, 06:32:43 pm »

John,

I got frustrated last night and disabled the onboard NIC in the bios, removed the pci tuner card and installed another pci nic (now have 2 pci nics).  I "/etc/init.d/networking restart" and kubuntu recognized it as eth3, but LMCE would not recognize the card.  I went into the system properties and tried to manually enable the card, but as soon as it said it was enabled it would switch to being disabled. 

So, I formatted the machine with the new card (stuck with the AMD64) and now everything works.  I am not convinced that LMCE updates when networks are swapped or when NICs are added/removed/changed.  I think I need to reinstall again, install the ASUS driver and not be switching cables and configurations around.

Maybe the same is happening to you.  Maybe LMCE is not updating and not recognizing what NIC you want to run the DHCP server on.  Until I got this box, I had been running the i386 version on different hardware and never experienced the DHCP issue.

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Users / Re: DHCP server on both NICs

« on: August 13, 2008, 06:29:20 pm »

First of all- thanks for all of the help.  It would be much easier for people to read the posts and move on without giving it a second thought.  The fact that help is given without expectations is much appreciated.  I would like to think that I give back by updating the wiki and trying the hardware that I have, but there are certainly those that give a whole lot more.

/epilogue

I will certainly switch the cables and though the admin pages swap the interfaces to see if that changes things.  It seems odd to me that the core receives the DNS's from the WRT54G but does not get the gateway ip address.  Which leads to 3 questions:

1) I don't mean to argue, but wouldn't it be easier to diagnose the NIC problems when it is setup as it is?  In a 'passive mode' if you will where all it needs to do is receive an ip address from the network rather than having the core be the DHCP server on that nic?  My knowledge of these things is very limited. 

2) Is it necessary for eth0 to be the external and eth1 be the internal?  Does LMCE only act as a DHCP server on eth0?  If so, that would explain my initial findings where the DHCP server seemed to be passing ip address up the external network to my WRT54G and onto my GF's computer.

3) How do you know if your nic is supported?  I was reading this: http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Unrecognized_NIC but as that it is the core and not a MD, I don't know if it will PXE boot.  What makes me believe that it works is: it can read the MAC address, and receives the DNS information from the router.  What makes me believe it doesn't work is that it doesn't receive an ip address from the router.  I have mac address filtering on, but I think that only applies to the wireless network.  I will add this mac address to the allowed list just to be sure.

Thanks

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Users / Re: DHCP server on both NICs

« on: August 13, 2008, 02:35:54 pm »

OK- Update.

External_IFACE:  eth1
External_Mac:  **********39  (this is the onboard nic)
External_IP        (blank)
External_netmask (blank)
external_dhcp:  1
internal_iface: eth0
internal_mac:  **********16 (dlink pci nic)
internal_ip: 192.168.80.1
internal_netmask:  255.255.255.0
gateway: 0.0.0.0
DNS1: **.**.**.5
DNS2: **.**.**.67  (both of these are the same as what is provided from my cable modem to my WRT54g)

Internet is not accessable on the core.

I did the ctrl+alt+f2 and ran:

ethtool eth1
It says a bunch of stuff, but the:
Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
Port: FIBRE
Transceiver: Internal
Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
Link detected: no

ethtool -i eth1
driver: r8169
version: 2.2LK
firmware-version: (blank)
bus-info: 0000:03:00.0

It is plugged in directly to my WRT54G and the lights are blinking on both.  I've tried different cables that I know work.

TIA,
James

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Users / Re: DHCP server on both NICs

« on: August 12, 2008, 06:37:34 pm »

Dave-

When I get home, I will run those commands and post what I find.  ASUS ships this MB with linux drivers and a readme on how to install.  I installed the driver:

1) tar vjxf r81...
2) make clean modules
3) make
4) make install
5) depmod -a
6) insmod ./src/r8168.ko
7) lsmod | grep r8168  (at this point the driver showed up on the next line).
ifconfig -a (this showed, as before, the eth0 and eth1 with mac addresses and what not, but it's still not up).


John-

My setup is:
Cable Modem --> Linksys WRT54G (DHCP enabled) ---> (eth1) Core/Hybrid (eth0) --> Media Directors
                                       |_________________----> GF's computer

The eth1 and Candice's get .1.xx address and eth0 is supposed to deliver .80.xx.  What's odd is that in the above setup, Candice's computer was getting 192.168.80.253 and the media directors were not receiving a signal.  Plus, my GF's could hit the core (.80.1) but not the internet and the core could hit the internet.  Firewall disabled.

Are you running the AMD 64bit version? 

Thanks,
James

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Users / Re: DHCP server on both NICs

« on: August 12, 2008, 05:16:41 am »

OK-

So forget the previous and let's start slow.  How do I tell if my nic is supported by Linux/Kubuntu/LinuxMCE?  I am not able to receive ip addresses from a DHCP server and I am not able to act as a DHCP server on that nic.  LinuxMCE does, however, find the mac address of the NIC.

Does this mean it is supported?

BTW- this would be an excellent (fairly cheap) core.  It's an AM2+ motherboard that supports a lot.  It has a hdmi port and digital audio (will add to wiki, but want to get the nic card sorted).

Thanks

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Users / DHCP server on both NICs

« on: August 11, 2008, 05:38:30 pm »

I just got an Asus M3A78-EM (will update wiki shortly), but am having problems with what seems to be the feeding of ip address on both NICs. 

The board has an integrated NIC and I added a second pci based NIC.  I wanted the onboard NIC to be on the internal network (it is gigabit to fit my gigabit switches) and the pci NIC to be on the external network.  BTW- I have a linksys router that I use to split the internet connection just after a cable modem- my core feeds directly off this router and my GF's computer as well so that she receives a .1.xx address and the other computer receive a .80.xx from the core.

The problem:  I ipconfig /renew her XP based machine and received a .80.xx address AND on the other internal network I was able to PXE boot a media director.  That is to say that LMCE was acting as a dhcp server and feeding my GF's computer through the linksys router and it was feeding ip addresses through the external network.

Now, what I really don't understand was that when the media direct was booting from the network I happened to mention that it was given the ip address .1.102 and the default gateway was .1.1.  It seems that the core was feeding .80.xx on the external network and was allowing the router to pass ip's through the core to feed the media director, but the media director was still receiving the PXE information.

With that all said and done, I figured I just had the wires on the core flipped- so I manually changed them (instead of using the admin configuration).  Now, the media director doesn't receive the PXE signal and the core can't get online.  I looked at the MAC addresses physically stamped on the cards, compared them with the network configuration in the admin pages, and found that I had the wiring correct the first time.

This is an AMD 64bit installation.  Has anyone else seen a similar scenario?

Thanks

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Users / Re: PXE over wireless

« on: April 09, 2008, 06:46:02 pm »

I have very good results with 2 Belkin F5D7230-4 routers.  You can set them up so access is restricted to specified MAC addresses.  A couple years back these were FAR, looks like they retail for approx $40 at Belkin.com.  I was only running a p3-600 with 256 mb ram- was using it as a digital picture frame (and soon, hopefully, a print server) pulling images I loaded onto the core.  If streaming video I would guess, as Zaerc said, the bandwidth is just not there...

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Users / Key mapping/startup events for touchscreen

« on: March 30, 2008, 06:31:09 pm »

Like others, I've been trying to find a cheap solution to get a touchscreen computer in my kitchen so I could play music, control lighting, etc. 

I've settled on a computer and hardware (that I will update on the wiki as soon as I get this fixed- don't want my question to get lost)

The touchscreen's calibration only works when I shrink the lcd screen and then re-enlarge it (Fn + F5 and then Fn + F5 again) after the touchscreen's input is recognized (it loads usually as /dev/input/event6).

There are 2 primary reasons I want it to load on startup-  1) the keyboard is mounted behind the screen, and 2) I don't want to have to push those buttons every time it starts up.  Yes, I could (and plan) to keep it running at all times, but in the event that it gets rebooted I want the system to automatically restore itself to the previously (calibrated) stated.

So, want I would like to know is from anyone with some experience mapping keys and startup events how to merge the two so that the required signal is sent on startup.  I can't seem to attach my xorg.conf file and a picture of my setup...