Assigning static IP via GUI

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Pi B 512. Alpha 4 with updates.

At one point I was able to enter the static IP numbers in the PI Config for my wired network, but they would not stay. Now I can’t even go down past the “try to populate it automatically” box.

Not a very big deal, since DHCP does work fine. I have been trying to make my wired network have static addresses for K.I.S.S. purposes.

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That is still a WIP.

Should be finished for Alpha 5

If you would still like to set a static IP, you will need to use preseed.

in /boot/ you need a preseed.cfg.

d-i target/storage string sd d-i network/interface string eth d-i network/auto boolean false d-i network/ip string 192.168.1.15 d-i network/mask string 255.255.255.0 d-i network/dns1 string 192.168.1.1 d-i network/dns2 string 8.8.4.4 d-i network/gw string 192.168.1.1

Change the IP addresses to what you need.

Then run /usr/bin/preseed

Wait for anything upto 1min and then try to connect via ssh to the static ip address.

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Thanks. It was odd that it seemed to work once then quit altogether. I guess one of the updates did something.

OSMC works great so far. I switched back from OE.

4

I just tried that mod (running as root), and got

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/preseed", line 222, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/preseed", line 121, in main ipv4_configuration["Netmask"] = make_variant(network["mask"]) KeyError: 'mask'
with preseed.cfg as

d-i target/storage string sd
d-i network/interface string eth
d-i network/auto boolean false
d-i network/ip string 10.0.0.163
d-i network/mask 255.0.0.0
d-i network/dns1 string 10.0.0.138
d-i network/dns2 string 8.8.4.4
d-i network/gw string 10.0.0.138

What is the problem, please?

5

OK - finally sank in after analysing the script

d-i network/mask 255.0.0.0

should be

d-i network/mask string 255.0.0.0