Network issues with CUBOX-i4Pro and GeexBox

[d3xt3rMember]

First of all, please excuse my lack of LINUX knowledge.

I have a CUBOX-i4Pro and I recently installed the lastest build of GeexBox.
I am really impressed of the performance and the 1080p videos are incredibly fluids.

But I’m experiencing some networking issues.
I read almost all post in this forum and none of them seems to be related to my issues. I know that there is a known issue with the wireless on the CUBOX-i.

So, to bypass this issue, I’ve connected my CUBOX-i via ethernet to a linlsys WAP 54g(with DD-WRT) acting like a client on my wireless. In the XBMC – GeeBox network configuration, I configured the following network connexion:

NETWORK=”LAN”
NETWORK INTERFACE=”Eth0″
IFACE=”B8:5A:F7:82:AB:A6″
ADDRESS=”192.168.XXX.XXX/24″
GATEWAY=”192.168.XXX.XXX”
DNS_SERVER=”192.168.XXX.XXX”
SSID=””
HIDDEN=””
SECURITY=””
PASSPHRASE=””

After rebooting the CUBOX-i, in the XBMC system network informations, here is the network connection status:

LINK = Connected
Mac ADDRESS = busy
ADDRESS=”192.168.XXX.XXX/24″
GATEWAY=”192.168.XXX.XXX”
DNS_SERVER=”127.0.0.1″
INTERNET=not connected. check your network configurations

I think the problem is the DNS server address.
I’ve tried several times to access to the terminal and editing de /etc/network file to force my network settings but each time I’m kicked out of the terminal and the XBMC starts.

I have a usb wireless adapter that I would like to use instead of my linksys wap 54g mentionned above. the adapter is an 2000mW USB Wireless G / N Long-Range WiFi Network Adapter With 9dBi Rubber Antenna. How do i get this work with my CUBOX-i and GeexBox

Any help would be really appreciated

[kokojakMember]

Hi, I have similar configuration problems but IFACE=”eth0″ in /etc/network.
i can go to internet to download extension like youtube and use it.

[tomlohaveModerator]

can you post the content of /etc/network, removing, if any , password.
for wifi, plug your stick, then post the results of
ifconfig

[d3xt3rMember]

sorry for the delay, but here is my network file. I finally connect my cubox-i 4pro via ethernet in a linksys wap 54g set to be a client. the network is stable (for now) but I was wondering when I look my network informations in the XBMC (setting->system info->network) why my DNS address is 127.0.0.1 even if I forced it into the network file

# Network configuration

# Backend software to use for network management (e.g. “connmann, networkmanager, udhcpc, none “)
NETWORK_BACKEND=”connman”

# “LAN” or “WLAN” or “” (default is “” <-> “LAN”)
NETWORK=”LAN”

# Network interface name or address (e.g. “eth0” or “00:0d:56:ec:ba:0c”)
IFACE=”eth0″

# Static IP address (“” for DHCP) in CIDR format (e.g. “192.168.1.1/24″)
ADDRESS=”192.168.1.6/24”

# Network gateway (e.g. “192.168.1.254”)
GATEWAY=”192.168.1.1″

# List of DNS servers (e.g. “192.168.1.253 192.168.1.254″)
# This will override the DNS servers from DHCP
DNS_SERVER=”192.168.1.1″

SSID=””

# “true” or “”
HIDDEN=”false”

# “WEP” or “PSK” or “” or “RSN”
SECURITY=”NONE”

PASSPHRASE=””

# set to “” to disable NTP
TIMESERVERS=”0.geexbox.pool.ntp.org 1.geexbox.pool.ntp.org 2.geexbox.pool.ntp.org 3.geexbox.pool.ntp.org”

# Services to be started at boot time
TELNET_SERVER=”true”
FTP_SERVER=”true”
HTTP_SERVER=”true”
SAMBA_SERVER=”true”

# Use Zeroconf service discovery
ZEROCONF=”true”

WAIT_FOR_SLOW_DEVICE=”true”

# Static Samba shares can be defined as shown in the commented examples below,
# where <%>,<@>,<&>,<#> field separators must be present as shown (Note that
# the password cannot contain these special delimiters):
# Change static value to “true” to enable this

#STATIC_SMB=”username<%>password<@>ip<&>myservername<#>share1<#>share2<#>share3″
#STATIC_SMB=”<%><@>ip<&>myservername<#>share1″
static=”false”

# Dynamic Samba shares : use “SMB_USER” and “SMB_PWD” to automount all discovered shares
# Change dynamic value to “true” to enable this
#SMB_USER=””
#SMB_PWD=””
dynamic=”false”

When I activate the WIFI, in the terminal, if I execute iwconfig, here’s what i get :

# iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:on

lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 no wireless extensions.

I read that I should disable the bluetooth but I do, I wonder if my bluetooth keyboard(with the dongle) will stop working

Thanks again for your help ! By the way … GeexBox is awesome !

[tomlohaveModerator]

for your DNS, that’s a feature of connman. (but it works, that’s not a problem)
You can try to switch to networkmanager if this is annoying you.
For your keyboard , never tested such hardware, so can’t tell you. Sorry
Test ?

[d3xt3rMember]

thank you for your fast reply

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