(Solved) Setting a Static IP

[mk01]

router with IP ending .0 is not correct (anything would be ok but .0 and .255) . xbian-config (specially triggered by XBMC eth0 setup) was unable to set static addr, I can confirm that.

but the important:
looking at the dmesg - network jobs are failing for you and because both (lo + eth0), the problem is most likely not configuration but some system binaries or scripts. with RC3 there was a combinations of factors leading to this kind of issues.

two options - update or grab newer image. for instance http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbian/files/release/XBian_2014.12.15-1.0_RC_3_Raspberry_Pi.img.gz/download

I can put the few commands for you to get network (if you can attach RPI to ANY router/pc/anything providing internet access for a while). (all assumes you have root privileges) (192.168.42.1 is router address, change accordingly)

Code:

ipconfig 192.168.42.42::192.168.42.1:255.255.255.0:xbian:eth0:none
echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" > /etc/resolv.conf
echo "deb http://apt.xbian.org stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xbian.list
apt-get update
apt-get install inetutils-tools ifupdown xbian-update xbian-package-initramfs-tools xbian-package-config-shell xbian-package-config-xbmc xbian-package-repo

then just recheck that /etc/network/interfaces looks like this:

Code:

auto eth0 lo

iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet static
    address 192.168.42.42
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    gateway 192.168.42.1

(gateway is not mandatory argument).

after reboot sshd should be available on .42.