Just follow the instructions. If netcardconfig has a problem detecting your network adapter or getting an IP it will tell you. After doing netcardconfig, you can type ipconfig<ENTER>, which will display your IP. You can also ping a site(apple.com always seems respond) to verify network connectivity.

_________________
cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

ok i'll get on that when i get home, thx

ok 1st of all i dont even know if what i do have set up is set up correctly, but now im on the video source setup screen

i typed in Cable for video source name, set xmltv listings grabber to north america

now in the tv_grab_na configuration

i type my zip code...it accepts 4 digits, my router lights blink for a few seconds, then it adds the 5th digit...but thats it, NOTHING ELSE happens!

and b4 u say do that apt-get update thing, all that gave me was a whole lot of errors...i can ping apple.com but thats it apparently

and the apt-get install xmltv gave me 3 lines of different errors

And the errors are? You won't be able to go further until you get the latest xmltv.

_________________
cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

the errors when attempting to get the latest xmltv are as follows (pretty close, but i dont remember the exact paths so im using the ones that r similar on a page i found on a google search when searching for the errors):

W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
E: Unable to write to /var/cache/apt/
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

Odd as this usually means apt-get or dpkg is already in use. Surely you're not running more than one instance of dpkg or apt-get?

_________________
cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

since i basically dont know what they r, im gonna hafta say no

edit: checked the running processes, and nothing like that was running

yea "top" is about the only linux thing i know how to use

these errors also appear when you try to run apt as a non root user.

Make sure you are logging in as root to run apt and the scripts.

i was root

When doing the install, did you get any cloop errors? Keep trying apt-get update, still getting the same errors? Very odd indeed...

_________________
cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

i dont know what a cloop error is but it doesnt look familar...

everytime i do apt-get update it scrolls thru a whole lot of stuff, once in a while i see a percentage but most things say 404 at the end

and apt-get install xmltv still gets me the same as in the above post

Ok, finally did a apt-get update...Looks like ftp.de.debian.org is down. vi /etc/apt/sources.list and change ftp.de.debian.org to ftp.debian.org in all entries. Once complete, apt-get update then apt-get install xmltv.

_________________
cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

done...same errors on both

its been a week, i've given up, im off to SageTV

cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.orig
vi /etc/apt/source.list
deb http://ftp.debian.org sid main contrib
wq!
apt-get update
apt-get install xmltv

_________________
cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!