Introduction
After having spent the winter mostly doing other stuff, like getting the boat ready for the new season I recently decided to do something about my mythtv box which I had almost but not quite running as I liked in the beginning of december last year.
This is what I mean by “not quite running as I liked” by the way:
- I did not get the ALLNET 0271 wireless NIC to work with OpenSuse, I felt I made some progress, but never quite got it to work even though I could connect from a knoppix cd (actually knoppix V 5.01) booted on the same machine.
- I did not get the remote control configured so I used a keyboard and mouse to program recordings, and play them.
- I did confirm with Yast that key events got received correctly by the driver so I was probably close there.
- I was not really happy with the boot screen, or the resolution when booting and running anything other than the mythfrontend.
- I had to manually bypass a warning about graphics modes during boot.
- I did not untill later after the DVB-T tuner had stopped working for me, get the software installed for modifying the BIOS wakeup time, so I while I actually used it to record tv I always had to manually turn the machine on before the recording should start. As mentioned I later got this to work, so I am confident I will get it to work again, and will of course describe it here when I get to that point.
The box would not boot, probably due to the fact that I had installed on the SATA drive, and having the bios reset and not getting the right boot order. I finally gave up on it and reinstalled open suse 10.2, so now I have relative fresh install to start from. This is already a while ago in which I have not even powered up the box, so I hope I haven’t forgotten something essential.
Because this time I will try to record what I have done here in my blog so I and others may benefit from it. The progress might be slow since I get scouled at by my wife if I spend too much time by the computer, and I also have the boat in the water now. Oh, and then there is this half marathon thing early next month whivh I am training for. link: http://avis-maraton.net/.
This is the hardware in the box:
Motherboard: ASUS A8N-SLI premium
CPU: Athlon 3200+
TV tuner: Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T DVB-T model 909
Wlan: ALLNet 0271
OS: Open suse 10.2
The last time I installed this box I referred a lot to these web sites:
I did not however succeed last time in getting my wlan ALLNET 0271 to connect to my WAP. I did try to install knoppix V (whatever was the latest version around november / december 2006) and that successfully connected to my WAP, so there certainly is hope. I just couldn’t get it to work with Suse 10.1 which I was using at that time, nor with Open suse 10.2 which I tried with the last time. Hopefully this time I will manage to get it right. (or buy another wlan nic which “just works” with Open Suse 10.2, time will tell). (more…)