[mythtv-users] eth0 on Acer Revo 1600 doesn't grab an address at boot

[Brian Wood]

On Wednesday 27 January 2010 01:03:23 pm Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Scott Alfter <scott at alfter.us> wrote:
> > There's been lots of talk of these machines here as cheap HD-capable
> > frontends, so I picked one up a couple weeks ago.  At first, I threw
> > Mythbuntu on it to give it a shot.  It played recordings and movies
> > reasonably well, but there was one snag: on reboot, the network interface
> > wouldn't come up.  Logging in at the console and issuing
> > "/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart" (or whatever the equivalent is on
> > Mythbuntu) would get it running, as would stopping and restarting from
> > the appropriate icon in the system tray.  I'd like to eventually deploy
> > the box with just a remote control (probably the Playstation 3 Bluetooth
> > remote, as it and Bluetooth dongles are both cheap), so this could be a
> > bit of a problem.
> >
> > Thinking maybe it was something weird with Mythbuntu, I blew that off the
> > system and started installing Gentoo (which is what I normally use for
> > Linux installs).  It, however, is exhibiting the same behavior: eth0
> > doesn't come up from either a cold start or a reboot. 
> > /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart gets it running, but (again) that has to be
> > issued from the console.
> 
> I have that exact setup and have had no issues with network connectivity.
>  Revo 1600, Mythbuntu 9.10, DHCP.  Probably doesn't help you much except to
> know that it is possible for this to work properly.

My Revo 1600 likewise has no problem picking up an address from my DHCP 
server.

Though I changed it to a static IP. I use DHCP only for transient machines 
like a laptop.