Cannot connect to Openelec over LAN

[The_Ogre]

A few months ago my motherboard of my HTPC (actually its an old, unused PC ) gave in. So I ditched the motherboard and kept the rest of the components until I had enough money to buy the exact same board.

Right, so over the weekend I went to buy it and plugged everything in and all seem to be working 100%...up until yesterday when I connected the LAN cable to my windows PC. I wanted to copy some new stuff onto the HTPC, but for the life of me I can't seem to connect to it.

I unplugged the LAN cable from the HTPC and into a laptop and I could connect to the win7 machine just fine, so the cable isn't the problem.

When I log into the router I can see that it handed out two IP addresses 192.168.1.100 and 101, so the router isn't the issue either.

I'm at my wits' end.

 

[SpoonTech]

Download and Run an Ubuntu live CD.
If the LAN works in there, it is probably a driver problem.

 

[The_Ogre]

Download and Run an Ubuntu live CD.
If the LAN works in there, it is probably a driver problem.

That's actually a good idea, thanks!

 

[InvisibleJim]

Do you see activity and link lights on the network port for the HTPC? Can you ping the htpc?

 

[The_Ogre]

Do you see activity and link lights on the network port for the HTPC? Can you ping the htpc?

I see activity lights, however I cannot interact with it at all, ie when I try pinging it, it just says host cannot be found.

I wonder if it perhaps doesn't have something to do with the two pc's perhaps being in different workgroups. Need to check that when I get home

 

[DJ...]

I had some connectivity issues with my Openelec box until I assigned it a static IP...

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

I had some connectivity issues with my Openelec box until I assigned it a static IP...

I would suggest this too.

 

[Nod]

I see activity lights, however I cannot interact with it at all, ie when I try pinging it, it just says host cannot be found.

I wonder if it perhaps doesn't have something to do with the two pc's perhaps being in different workgroups. Need to check that when I get home

Try to ping the IP directly.
Also, like suggested, give it a fixed IP. Your router should support it.

 

[InvisibleJim]

For good measure, I'd also verify the IP on each box via ipconfig/ifconfig just to eliminate the possibility that the router has managed to give them both the same address.