Hi There

I am trying the RC5 version of OpenELEC on a ZOTAC ION MINI ITX A motherboard, and have come across this strange problem. I believe this has been mentioned before, but I cannot as yet find a cure.

After installation the system aquires a network connection with an IP address aquired by DHCP from my router which is fine, I am also able to establish an SMB connection to my unraid video share. However the system is unable to connect to the Internet for any downloads of extra add-ons such as updates or skins etc.

When I go into the Settings pages and system info, I see the error "Internet Not connected check network settings". The LAN connection is however solid and the connection remains to to my server.

I can connect into OpenELEC using SSH (putty) with no problem whatsoever, and have noticed that after this connection is established that the Internet Connection also works (for a while, before dropping again).

Why is just the Internet connection affected and not the overall LAN connection ?
There is no problem with the hardware since XBMC dharma 10.1 installed from the LIVECD works just fine.

This problem has been before (I found by searching the forums) however I do not see any real acknowledgment nor help with a fix.

I also notice the "DNS server" entry in XBMC settings is showing as 127.0.0.1 (local loopback) rather than that issued by my DHCP server (compared to the LIVECD install which is correct).
I have tried to correct this by manually editing /etc/resolv.conf however OpenELEC has a write protected system of course.

I have also tried manually entering a Static IP address in the OpenELEC program add-on but have noticed that whatever DNS settings I enter, the entry in XBMC settings remains fixed at 127.0.0.1

Static IP Address however does take effect and is reflected in XBMC.

This Internet connection problem is a show stopper for me unfortunately. I really thought OpenELEC was the way to go, the boot times and simplicity (compared even to the LIVECD system) is fantastic.

Is there anything that can be done to fix this ?

Regards

Pete

I am also running a Zotac IONITX-A-U (Wireless for now) and have the same issue with DNS not being correct. I have noticed that when I scan for new content it will pop up stating that information can not be downloaded at this time and if I want to continue (or something similar). Although I am still able to stream media from local machine.

Hi

I am not of course entirely sure that the DNS setting is the cause of this issue, but when
compared to the same machine using the 10.1 LIVECD build, the DNS reflected in XBMC is that expected from my router, in my case 192.168.10.250, this value is also reflected in the file
/etc/resolv.conf as "nameserver"

However since the OpenELEC build is write protected, I cannot edit resolv.conf to confirm this is the cause, and obviously since I cannot edit it, I can see no way that the coded entry of 127.0.0.1 can be altered.

What I want to know of course, is why when you manually edit the OpenELEC entries for DNS using the supplied add-on are these not reflected in XBMC, I suspect that these settings are actually only used for the SAMBA utility. In this instance I have no use for SAMBA on the XBMC machine, since all of my movies are streamed directly from another server (in this case unRAID). I have no need to connect in any way to the XBMC box, apart from SSH possibly.

Is the fact that the DNS entry is shown as 127.0.0.1 the route cause of loss of Internet connectively ? I think only the OpenELEC author can answer that.

In my case I am using a wired connection, and just to be totally clear about it,
THE LAN CONNECTION does NOT drop, just the loss of Internet connectivity.

Regards

Pete

I too see the same thing with the DNS address.

I also have issues with the subnet mask being set to 0.0.0.0 on a restart out of suspend/sleep.

Mick

Has this been fixed in any nightly builds, I want to move back to openelec but this is very annoying issue when the internet part drops out and i can't scrape info anymore

HarryRosen wrote:
can you test this? you can install on a usb stick to test.

Stephan