Hi,

I am running KnoppMyth R4V5 on a custom made box with Biostar mobo, AMD 2100+ XP processor, 256MB RAM, Nvidia GeForce card w/TV out, bt878 tv tuner and Netgear MA311 wireless card. I have successfully installed KnoppMyth. Sound is working, I can play movies (AVI), browse pictures, etc. Now the problems:

1. Everytime I boot with a Logitech USB mouse connected to the computer, it hangs on the following line:

When I boot without the mouse attached it does not hang and mouse works when plugged after the KnoppMyth is up and running.

2. When I set the correct parameters in iwconfig, ifconfig and then do the pump, the card works. If I save those settings in the '/etc/network/interfaces' file, they are not retained after the reboot. Actually after editing the file, I was unable to get the wireless connection to work. My interfaces file looks like that:

I have a DSL and I am connecting to the DSL modem thru Netgear wireless router. Wireless connection works on my laptop so I know that all the settings are correct.

3. Since the modification to the '/etc/network/interfaces' file, I am getting the 'Could not connect to the master backend server' error. I am running front and back on the same machine.

Please help. I am a linux noob. I can copy and edit files but other than that I have to follow instructions on how to setup things.

Thanks,
Drabina

well I have an answer to #3

your /etc/network/interfaces file is wrong.

should be more like

auto lo eth0
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet static
extra
stuff
here

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Xsecrets

Thanks Xsecrets. Your fix helped. I am no longer getting the "cannot connect to master backend" error. All the wireless settings are retained after the reboot now. Unfortunately I still have to exit out of the MythTV and type 'pump -i eth0'. Otherwise I cannot ping anything outside my router. Can I add this line to the end of 'interfaces' file?

Maurycy

no you can't

pump basically does dhcp. if you want to use dhcp instead of static addressing then modify the /etc/network/interfaces file to look like


otherwise you probably need to look try to ping something by ip address instead of running pump, if you can then you need to make sure you have your nameservers in resolv.conf

I usually just use dhcp, but set a static mapping in my router. Just seems easier to me.

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Xsecrets

Changing 'static' to 'dhcp' did the trick. Weird thing was, that before I was unable even to ping by IP address. Anyway, it is working now.

Thanks XSecrets.

Drabina