I have been investigating further..... The original file/folder names appear correctly when viewed on any machine. So the original file names are ok. I can copy the files successfully using a windows laptop from the file server to a samba share on the pi external drive. The non standard characters a...

I have a file server backing up to an ntfs usb drive on the pi using rsync. is basically works ok, except I get a few errors. These file have file names containing non standard english characters which throws an error. failed: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character (84) The file names app...

Hi dougie, Just a quick note to express my thanks for your help! :) I have now confirmed that there is a hardware fault, having been able to borrow another pi from a collegue, which works perfectly with my power supply, network leads and SD card. I'll be looking for a replacement tomorrow. Thanks ag...

I've got 4.9V across tp1 and tp2, so no problems with power supply. I've tried a couple of others just to make sure. I've just been reading up on X1 issues. I've got keyboard and mouse working ok on the usb, which I wouldn't have if x1 was stuck? the frustration is that it was all working fine but s...

Using the pi's network lead connected into the laptop (wireless turned off) I'm able to use this connection with no problems at all, this post sent this way - to me this says everything up to the pi is OK. So is the pi faulty? New lead from router to pi, destination host unreachable when pinging out...

Yes, 192.168.1.254 is the router. destination Host unreachable when I ping it from pi. normal response when I ping it from laptop. Another machine with fixed ip has auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.152 gateway 192.168.1.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 netwo...

I'm still using ethernet. (We talked about changing leads earlier up the thread) I've added the auto eth0 I tried the ifup command but didn't get much further. The routing table now has: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.1.0 0....

For info, leaving the pi connected to the network, the ip address eventually (2 hours since previous post) is stored in the router, but no pings either way get returned. The frustration is that this worked just great previously. Is there an easy way to save output from pi screen when not networked? ...

Thanks for the reply but still no network. DHCP is limited from 160 to 252 I have a few devices with static IP in the 150's I have set the pi to 192.168.1.50 Router dhcp leases have all been renewed and router was re-started. the pi still cannot ping anything and I cannot ping the pi. The router can...

I've left the raspbmc xbmc powered on, showing the network iformation screen. It shows MAC address:busy and Internet: busy for most of the time. Every few minutes, for a few seconds, the mac address of the pi appears! Wehn this happens internt:Not connected. Check network settings is also reported. ...

A bit more info..... I've got another sd card, with xbmc installed on it - clean image again. It seems to negotiate an ip address - both the router and pi have same 192.168.1.237 ip adress for it. Mac address is reported as busy; I've no idea what that means. However, I can't get a response from pin...

Ah, sorry, I am a beginner! Sub net is same on all devices, router included. - 192.168.1

Subnet is 255.255.255.0 on the network, I've not actively set it on the pi, shouldn't dhcp look after that? I've tried three wires, the two I've just swapped in were taken from known working machines. The lights on the pi are pretty much solid with just occasional flashes on the link led. the only c...

I haven't used my pi for a while as I've been away. I couldn't get it to connect to my network so loaded a new image onto the SD card. The router can see the pi - I recognise the mac address in the list of devices the router sees. ifconfig hasn't set an ip address for eth0 so pinging out from the pi...