[PROBLEM] Gigabit Lan adapter (USB3) doesn't work

[Harald654]

Hello,

for better networkspeed i use a gigabit lan adapter (USB3) on my RPI2 (transfer speed about 18 mb/s).
With Raspbian or OSMC the adapter works direktly after plugin, but i have problems with xbian.
After plugin i can change the ethernet port in the xbian settings from eth0 to eth1, but the status of eth1 is alwasy down and i cant exess to my network wjth the adapter
Does anyone know a solution for the problem?

Greetings,

[rikardo1979]

try to login over SSH or if you have USB keyboard just exit Kodi from within power menu

Than once you in the terminal, just do

Code:

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

when prompted for password type raspberry , default password

Than look for following lines which has 0 as default

Code:

auto eth0 lo
iface eth0 inet dhcp

and change it to

Code:

auto eth2 lo
iface eth2 inet dhcp

Im not sure why it use 2 instead of 1 (or any other number?) but this works for me
(maybe our clever developers can answer this? )

Once you edit the lines, press Ctr+X to exit. When prompted type Y and enter, which save the file

Now just type

Code:

sudo reboot

hit enter. After reboot your USB LAN adaptor should work and you should be connected to network

Please let us know if this helps

[Nachteule]

@Harald654

I do not have an GBit USB adapter, having only an 100MBit one

Before I test it, I have one question:

Is the onboard Ethernet configured and is this link up?

[Nachteule]

@'rikardo1979

(20th Aug, 2016 06:06 PM) Wrote:  Im not sure why it use 2 instead of 1 (or any other number?) but this works for me
(maybe our clever developers can answer this? )

Please have a look into the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

Probably your external adapter is listed as eth2

[rikardo1979]

(20th Aug, 2016 09:03 PM)Nachteule Wrote:  @'rikardo1979

(20th Aug, 2016 06:06 PM) Wrote:  Im not sure why it use 2 instead of 1 (or any other number?) but this works for me
(maybe our clever developers can answer this? )

Please have a look into the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

Probably your external adapter is listed as eth2

thx for reply here m8

I have checked and yes, it is as eth2 where eth1 is something else, which I have no idea what that might be as I have nothing else connected to RPi apart from power cable

Code:

# USB device 0x:0x (smsc95xx)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="b8:27:eb:97:ee:92", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"

# Unknown net device (/devices/platform/soc/3f300000.mmc/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:0001/mmc1:0001:1/net/wlan0) (brcmfmac_sdio)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="b8:27:eb:c2:bb:c7", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="wlan*", NAME="wlan0"

# USB device 0x:0x (smsc95xx)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="b8:27:eb:92:ea:43", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1"

# Unknown net device (/devices/platform/soc/3f300000.mmc/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:0001/mmc1:0001:1/net/wlan0) (brcmfmac_sdio)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="b8:27:eb:c7:bf:16", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="wlan*", NAME="wlan1"

# USB device 0x:0x (ax88179_178a)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="80:1f:02:75:d8:dd", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth2"

But the question is why is it not working automatically?
I mean you plug your USB LAN adaptor and than you head over to XBian config from within the Kodi menu
It gives you the option under System/Network to switch between eth0, eth1, eth2...
Than when I have tried select eth2 which was showing status "DOWN" and when I have tried exit the menu there was only an error message at the bottom


Yeah, I am sorry but I did not have an debuging on so I could not checked the logs

Question is, why it does not work as on other systems, just plug and play? I mean is easy to manually edit these files and make it working, if even I could do it But it would be nice if it just works

[Nachteule]

Hey, what happened here?

My last posts were gone in this thread

[Nachteule]

(20th Aug, 2016 11:48 PM)rikardo1979 Wrote:  Question is, why it does not work as on other systems, just plug and play? I mean is easy to manually edit these files and make it working, if even I could do it But it would be nice if it just works

Fixed this. Now all new network devices not already configured in /etc/network/interfaces are added by udev rule and helper script

New package xbian-update (in staging repo) does this part

[rikardo1979]

(21st Aug, 2016 11:08 PM)Nachteule Wrote:  Hey, what happened here?

My last posts were gone in this thread

not sure? I have not seen any replies other than those which are still here

(21st Aug, 2016 11:11 PM)Nachteule Wrote:  

(20th Aug, 2016 11:48 PM)rikardo1979 Wrote:  Question is, why it does not work as on other systems, just plug and play? I mean is easy to manually edit these files and make it working, if even I could do it But it would be nice if it just works

Fixed this. Now all new network devices not already configured in /etc/network/interfaces are added by udev rule and helper script

New package xbian-update (in staging repo) does this part

nice one that was quick
thx

[Nachteule]

I was replying your last post and was adding new post what i'm doing to solve this issue

[Harald654]

sorry for my late answer!

Quote:Is the onboard Ethernet configured and is this link up?

yes

for testing i use now a fresh installation of Xbian (with noobs), now eth1 (GBit USB adapter) are showing as up in the XBian setting.
but when I select eth1 nothing changes, and when i re-open the settings eth0 ist still set als network (for testing i habe both, eth0 and eth1 permanently connected by Lan).
The Kodi log says:

Code:

14:20:42 1011.348145 T:1744548784  NOTICE: XBian : XBian-config started
14:20:58 1027.020996 T:1953837056   ERROR: Keymapping error: no such action '-' defined
14:21:06 1034.480225 T:1744548784  NOTICE: XBian : XBian-config-python closed
14:21:06 1034.818726 T:1744548784 WARNING: CPythonInvoker(4, /usr/local/share/kodi/addons/plugin.xbianconfig/default.py): the python script "/usr/local/share/kodi/addons/plugin.xbianconfig/default.py" has left several classes in memory that we couldn't clean up. The classes include: N9XBMCAddon9xbmcaddon5AddonE,N14PythonBindings36XBMCAddon_xbmcgui_WindowXML_Dire​ctorE,N9XBMCAddon7xbmcgui6DialogE

If i change in the network settings the typ from THCP to statisitc (whether eth0 or eth1) i get an error massage.
Kodi log:

Code:

14:23:15 1164.310913 T:1744548784  NOTICE: XBian : XBian-config started
14:23:22 1171.309937 T:1953837056   ERROR: Keymapping error: no such action '-' defined
14:23:35 1183.695801 T:1744548784  NOTICE: XBian : XBian-config-python closed
14:23:35 1184.097046 T:1744548784 WARNING: CPythonInvoker(6, /usr/local/share/kodi/addons/plugin.xbianconfig/default.py): the python script "/usr/local/share/kodi/addons/plugin.xbianconfig/default.py" has left several classes in memory that we couldn't clean up. The classes include: N14PythonBindings36XBMCAddon_xbmcgui_WindowXML_DirectorE,N9XBMCAddon7xbmcgui6Dia​logE,N9XBMCAddon9xbmcaddon5AddonE

Greeting,
H.

[Nachteule]

You can ignore those warnings, but
there are still issues in XBian-config:

Network is not restarted after change of settings (code is there but is not executed), only settings in /etc/network/interfaces are written.
Seems that this confuses XBian-config completely

Have to investigate this issue next days. For the moment it is easier to modify settings directly in file /etc/network/interfaces and reboot Pi after changes has been done.

[Nachteule]

@Harald654

(18th Sep, 2016 06:23 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  You can ignore those warnings, but
there are still issues in XBian-config:

Network is not restarted after change of settings (code is there but is not executed), only settings in /etc/network/interfaces are written.
Seems that this confuses XBian-config completely

Have to investigate this issue next days. For the moment it is easier to modify settings directly in file /etc/network/interfaces and reboot Pi after changes has been done.

Fixed this, should work now. Package xbian-package-config-shell and xbian-package-config.xbmc have to be updated.

FYI, do not set gateway IP on both network devices (this is not allowed). To omit gateway parameter, set this parameter to 0.0.0.0

[Harald654]

hello Nachteile,

thank you for the fix.
(great work, now it runs!)

But unfortunately, i still have another request wich is also the reason why i wanted to use an external Gbit-Lan adapter at all.

I use my RPi2 also as a network drive to access music/movies and save backups (via SMB). Since the Rpi2 with 100Mbit-Lan and USB2 speed is very limited, for me therefore counts every bit/s.
With Raspbian and other distributions i always get a network speed of about 11-12MB/s (over SMB), with xbian however only 8-9MB/s.
Because as i said for me every bit/s counts, i wanted to switch to a Gbit-lan adapter. Since everything runs over a single USB controller, i expected no huge speedup, but with Raspbian i reach a speed of 16 MB / s over SMB with the Adapter. With Xbian unfortunately i get only significantly lower speed of 11-12MB/s.

My question is now, does you (or someone else) knows what the lower speeds with Xbian lie and is there a possibility to increase the network speed? (At least the same speed as with Raspbian should be possible i think?)

Grettings,
H.

[Nachteule]

This is OT in this thread.

Please open new thread and give us a bit more information about your system environment

Thank you