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Thanks Thom....

My core is up and running and assigning DHCP addresses out to my network. I'm having trouble getting my diskless MD to LAN boot. It acts like it's going to boot and then finally stops with the last message as: "ETH0 - no link during initialization".

Any ideas on where to start? Is this an MD issue or a core issue?

Thx,
Speedy

...oops thanks for correcting me....

  I'm going to load Linux MCE 7.10 i386 32 bit from the CD onto a fresh HDD. My question is, should have have my cable modem connected directly to the core machine while doing the install?

Thanks in advance!

Speedy

I'm actually looking at this type of configuration, at least initially.

It's all about WAF. My existing Linux setup has had a few issues and, as I work away, the family have been left with no internet. Not good! The problem was actually with my router, but that's another story! I ended up taking my Linux server out of the link and allowing the home PCs to connect directly to the router.

My plan is to add my core to the existing network and begin with my MDs etc behind it. After much testing, I intend to move the kids PCs and the portable devices (iPod touch's, PSPs etc) and then, if there seems to be a tangiable benefit to doing so, my wife's and my laptops.

My wife is very IT (but not Linux) literate and gets very frustrated when something goes wrong and she can't fix it directly herself. Until I have established exactly how stable MCE is, I daren't risk her internet link 

I'm in the same boat......I'm trying to set up a core and an MD and I have limited opportunity to do so as the family needs their internet connection. I got the core up & running and it was assigning DHCP addresses to all of the house computers,but I couldn't get the MD to be recognized.

I miss having a Linux Ubuntu machine that is now my core as all the other computers in the house run a windows OS. I'm thinking of starting over and keeping the core and MD's downstream of the router for the same reason...stability/reliability.

Tenacity and perserverance will prevail......The best of luck to you! 

I struggled with getting my PCI NIC card to communicate to a switch downstream of the core. My MB has two onboard LAN adapters on it. I came from the cable modem into one of the onboard LAN ports and then out of the PCI NIC card to the switch.


I finally experimented with connecting the core to the switch using the second onboard LAN adapter and whada know....wverything worked...the core starting communicating with the switch.

Best of luck 

   Hi Techstyle -

I have my linuxMCE core up and running with the other computers in my home network all working!

Except for the media director.

I went from the router to a switch and my other problem was that I was trying to use a PCI NIC card to go from the core to the switch and it would never communicate from the PCI NIC card to the switch. My MB in the core has two onboard LAN ports so I tried using the second on board LAN port to feed the switch and everything worked!!!

Now, back to my MD

It's diskless and has a PCI NIC card in it. The mother board is an Iwill KK266. It is capable on LAN booting and I have the boot sequence set to LAN boot. Here again, I don't believe my PCI NIC card is able to communicate to the switch.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Speedy

I have a Linksys WRT54G configured as a switch.  The devices are different but I think the settings are very similar.  The instructions should be followed in order and as follows:

1.  Connect directly to the router and log on (default IP is 192.168.1.1, leave the username blank and type 'admin' in the password field)

2.  Go to the Security page and disable the firewall (disable all items in the 'block WAN requests' section) - hit the save settings button

3.  Go to 'Setup' page and change the local IP adress to something within the Core's Range.  The Default range for a LinuxMCE Core is 192.168.80.2 to 192.168.90.128 for Pluto Devices and 192.168.80.129 to 192.168.80.254 for non-pluto devices.  set the router's local IP to be in the non-Pluto range - mine is 192.168.80.130. - Again Save Settings

4.  you will now have to re-logon to the new IP address (192.168.80.130 for me). 

5.  On the setup page again, below the local IP address, Disable the DHCP server - Save Settings.

Reconnect the device to the Eth1 port on the core (to a LAN port not the WAN port) and power cycle it and you are all set.

Hope this helps

Techstyle,

As soon as I do step # 3 above, I can't get back to the router to continue steps # 4 & 5.


Any Ideas on what to do?

thx,
Speedy

tschak909- your advice is appreciated and will be taken. I'm new to the Linux MCE and Linux in general. Some of my home network insists on windows and I'm trying to keep a box with Ubuntu so I can continue to learn. The Linux MCE core is going to trump the Ubuntu box if I can't dual boot the core.



Techstyle - thank you for the reply and further advice!

I only surmised that my PCI NIC card wasn't being recognized because when plugging into the onboard adapter, I got connectivity....then I switch the modem cable to the PCI NIC card and the card wast active and I got connectivity. But, again, no MD boot when switching the cables back the way they're supposed to be.

Question for you, how can I tell which network port on the core is the WAN port and which one is the LAN port?

I went and bought a switch and a new wired network card (Linksys EG1032). I'll first try converting my router to a switch per your instructions and then if I need to, I'll have the switch and a new different brand of network card to try also.

I'll let you know how it goes.


Here are my settings:

From the Linux MCE Launch manager/ open admin website/ advanced/ network/network settings/

the DHCP server on core is enabled

range of IP for pluto devices is: 192.168.80.2 - 192.168.80.128

range of IP for devices not in pluto database is: 192.168.80.129 - 192.168.80.254

the number of adapters is 2

External network card Eth1 - obtain IP address from DHCP

Internal network card eth0 - IP address is 192.168.80.1 - subnet mask is 255.255.255.0


From within the linux MCE launch manager - when viewing IP addresses, I have:

External_Iface = eth1
External_MAC= 00:1F:C6:xx:xx:xx
External_IP = 192.168.1.102
External_Netmask = 255.255.255.0
External_DHCP = 1

Internal_Iface = eth0
Internal_MAC= 00:1E:2A:xx:xx:xx
Internal_IP = 192.168.80.1
Internal_Netmask = 255.255.255.0
Gateway = xxx.168.1.1
DNS1 = xx.xxx.xx.12
DNS2 = xx.xxx.xx.11


My current PCI NIC card in the core is a Netgear GA311
The new PCI NIC card I bought tonight is a Linksys EG1032

My MD PCI NIC card is a Netgear FA310TX REV-D2


Thx again,

Speedy

TotallyMaxed:

I'm trying to set up a linux MCE 7.10 core and MD system with two adapters.

I currently have a cable modem feeding a Linksys BEFSR41 router that then feeds my networked PC's.

I was first going to change the router into a switch and let the core assign DHCP IP addresses to the MD and all other networked PC's .....but then I didn't want to lose internet connectivity to my networked PC's if I was to either 1). dual boot the core into Ubuntu and/or 2). turn off the core.

So, I was thinking about trying to use my BEFSR41 in the following way - from cable modem to BEFSR41 WAN port ----from uplink on BEFSR41 to onboard lan on linux MCE core machine------from  PCI NIC card on linux MCE core machine to MD.

I was thinking that by using the uplink option I could still let the router assign DHCP for my external networked computers and also get external connectivity to the linux core....this way if I want to dual boot the core or shut down the core, I wouldn't loose my connectivity on the external networked computers.

Can this be done? Do I need to convert my router to a switch first?

This currently works as in I have internet connectivity to my networked PC's via the router (no changes to the router yet) and I have internet connectivity to the core--------what doesn't work is I can't get the MD to LAN boot....it's like the PCI NIC card in the core is not being recognized.


Here are my settings:

From the Linux MCE Launch manager/ open admin website/ advanced/ network/network settings/

the DHCP server on core is enabled

range of IP for pluto devices is: 192.168.80.2 - 192.168.80.128

range of IP for devices not in pluto database is: 192.168.80.129 - 192.168.80.254

the number of adapters is 2

External network card Eth1 - obtain IP address from DHCP

Internal network card eth0 - IP address is 192.168.80.1 - subnet mask is 255.255.255.0


From within the linux MCE launch manager - when viewing IP addresses, I have:

External_Iface = eth1
External_MAC= 00:1F:C6:11:9B:61
External_IP = 192.168.1.102
External_Netmask = 255.255.255.0
External_DHCP = 1

Internal_Iface = eth0
Internal_MAC= 00:1E:2A:CF:F5:50
Internal_IP = 192.168.80.1
Internal_Netmask = 255.255.255.0
Gateway = 192.168.1.1
DNS1 = 68.105.28.12
DNS2 = 68.105.28.11



Any Ideas?

Thx,
Speedy

Techstyle--thanks for your reply - this looks like what I'm looking for.


I was also thinking about trying to use my BEFSR41 in the following way - from cable modem to BEFSR41 WAN port ----from uplink on BEFSR41 to onboard lan on linux MCE core machine------from  PCI NIC card on linux MCE core machine to MD.

I was thinking that by using the uplink option I could still let the router assign DHCP for my external networked computers and also get external connectivity to the linux core....this way if I want to dual boot the core or shut down the core, I wouldn't loose my connectivity on the external networked computers.

This currently works as in I have internet connectivity to my networked PC's via the router (no changes to the router yet) and I have internet connectivity to the core--------what doesn't work is I can't get the MD to LAN boot....it's like the PCI NIC card in the core is not being recognized.

Any ideas?

thx, Speedy

My connectivity is cable: the router location is: cable modem/core/

then out from the core to the befsr41 and then to md and other computers in the network.

thanks

Hello,

I have a dedicated core with a media director on the lan trying to run Linux MCE 7.10. Could somebody please help me with information on how to configure a linksys BEFSr41 router into a switch. Such as the static IP address, gateway, etc.

thanks for your help!

Speedyone

Hi - I chose use as a PC during setup per the hybrid setup instructions.

I no longer have my home network of other computers available to me. When I go into sambra share, I get linuxmce and then from clicking there, I get dce router and from clicking here i go int the public and private folders.

I lost Gnome and I think several other packages that I had under Kubuntu 7.10 prior to loading MCE on top of it.

I wanted to add that currently on a boot, I boot into Kubuntu with the following three login options:
1). Speedy
2) Pluto-Samba Share Helper
3) Pluto-Green

I've been picking Speedy as my login because this is what I was use to prior to MCE installation. However, in konsole, it shows that I'm at speedy@dcerouter which is confusing me?? Am I in Kubuntu or MCE? Why am I at DCE router?

thanks,
Speedy

I did a fresh install of Gutsy 7.10 AMD 64 from two CD's.

I played around with this for a few weeks and when I'd go into Konsole, I would start at "speedy@AMD64".

After a few weeks, I decided it was time to install MCE 7.10 64 bit from the 2 CD version.

After installing MCE, I'm noticing that when I go into konsole now, I start at speedy@dcerouter.

Is there a way for me to setup my machine where I normally boot into Kubuntu Desktop and run the PC in Gutsy most of the time and then occasionally, re-boot into MCE to watch streamed content?



Any help would be appreciated.