OK this has been happening to me since I've installed gentoox home v6.1. Everytime I try to run magic it tells me that "Downloading magic [server test] failed, please try again later.
Press enter to quit..." I have the right time on my xbox and ever since v6.1 came out its been happening so I havent been able to update gentoox.
Running Magic
Magic requires you to conect to the internet; there is no way around that. You could do everything manually, but in order to install anything it would still need to download it from the internet... Once you get it all setuo you could leave it disconnected, however...
Linux is and alawys has been dependant on the net. That's just what linux is.
Linux is and alawys has been dependant on the net. That's just what linux is.
If it's connected to the network then I might be able to help.
Run the following command on the command line:
If it displays an error message then post that message and the output of this command:
If it brings the net back up successfully then run the following command:
If that is successful then you are connected to the internet just fine. Your problem with magic is most likely because your router isn't letting you connect to port 2000.
If that fails then try this command
If the first ping fails but the second one succeded then your problem is with dns. You can manually add your isp's dns servers to /etc/resolv.conf to fix this, but the bigger issue is that your dhcp server on your router isn't telling your computer what the dns servers are.
If you were able to bring up net and both pings fail then post back the output of the following two commands:
There are a number of things that could go wrong when connecting any computer to a network (yes the Xbox is a computer). How is your network setup? Do you use a firewall/router? How certain are you that the network cable you are using to connect the Xbox is good?
Run the following command on the command line:
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/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart
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dmesg | tail
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ping www.google.com
If that fails then try this command
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ping 66.102.7.104
If you were able to bring up net and both pings fail then post back the output of the following two commands:
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ifconfig
route
Not true, Linux is just the kernel... it depends on the distro for net dependency... Thats why you can "buy" RedHat/Fedora/Suse off the shelf and use it without internet access.Linux is and alawys has been dependant on the net. That's just what linux is.
Anyway...
a simple thing to try:
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dhclient eth0
DHCP should setup your IP, dns and route settings for you.
True Linux is just the kernel... A kernel born and developed on the internet. It's main distrobution channel is also the internet. However, I wasn't really talking about Linux, but rather GNU/Linux with the distrabution of your choice. I just shortened it to Linux.gnif wrote: Not true, Linux is just the kernel... it depends on the distro for net dependency... Thats why you can "buy" RedHat/Fedora/Suse off the shelf and use it without internet access.
All open source prjects depend on the internet in this regard. Although you could buy off the shelf products, if you want to upgrade (which is mostly what magic does) you generally need to connect to the internet.