Need Help With Lakka Setup - Not Visible on Workgroup

Libretro Lakka
#1

Hello all. Let me preface this by saying I have minimal experience with Linux. I do have some experience with Unix.

I just installed Lakka on an old Windows PC I had laying around. An Asus U43F to be precise. I am stuck, as I cannot load any roms onto the Lakka Box. The instructions advise to move the files to the Lakka Box via the workgroup (Patch cable going to router). I do not see machine on my network while using my Win 10 machine,. When I go to look at my Network settings on Lakka no IP address is displayed. I have no idea how to move forward form this point.

My Lakka box DOES show up on my network map via the Web App for my router, complete with IP Address. I added the location as a “Network Place” and attempted to FTP to the IP for Lakka, but no dice. Connection could not be made.

#2

Hi Folks - congratulations on Lakka and the progress you guys are making - looks extremely PS3 like and therefore I am extremely interested.

Now after saying that - same here with the above mentioned problem.

Have just installed Lakka on a Toshiba Qosmio F60 -> Connected to router via Ethernet -> Go to Network via File Explorer in Windows 10 Pro connected via wireless on same network -> NO Lakka

Lakka is displayed in MAC Filtering table under Trusted Devices but again same, no IP address is displayed in Network Settings on the Lakka PC.

Can anyone start by letting us know if you have this working for file transfers via Windows 10 and if so what settings you are using and/ or are required? (I.e. HomeGroup connections / Network Discovery / File and Printer Sharing / Private…Guest or Public… All Networks).

I am personally tinkering with this as an alternative to RetroPie that I have on a Raspberry Pi Model B - took me months of research and setting up for that one.

From what I am led to believe, Lakka could be installed on a USB drive or SD card and run from that device now. However the Qosmio has been idle for a few months since I bought another primary machine and I would like to use the Qosmio for the extra grunt it will provide (6GB RAM, NVidia Graphics etc…)

Any help that anyone could provide in getting what I assumed would be basic transfers happening from a Win 10 Pro to Lakka PC would be truly appreciated.

(P.S. I will be testing this again later this afternoon with both machines connected via Ethernet to rule that out as a possible cause).

Cheers.

#3

I got several Windows 10 machines and all have acess to \Lakka\ROMs. Check if Lakka has an asigned IP (you can explore your network and its public shares with Softperfect Network Scanner).

#4

Thanks mate - got it sorted now.

What I and I think @Dark Light were referring to is the fact that it will not show LAKKA in the Network option under Windows Explorer in Win 10 and also the fact that when you have a look at the settings in LAKKA itself the IP Address doesn’t actually display.

In my case, I logged into the router and saw that LAKKA had actually been assigned an address on the local network.

As suggested elsewhere I gave up on trying to find it and the associated share folders through Windows Explorer -> Network and simply used the IP I found assigned via DHCP to transfer the files over using FileZilla (Host = IP assigned via DHCP -> Username and Password = root -> port 22

I have also accessed the file system via Putty and changed the config file to send my video / audio out over HDMI which took some research and tinkering but I got there :slight_smile:

In regard to the video signal I can also confirm that [B]video=LVDS-1:d and a monitor index of 2 worked for me as per the instructions provided in this thread :

http://libretro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4263&

So from native maximum 1366 x 768 resolution of the Qosmio’s display I am now sending to a 1920 x 1080 Samsung and have a heap of SNES games happening - awesome!

All I would really like to do right now is figure out how to stretch the horizontal res because the setting mentioned here for changing to 16:9 is “greyed out” I think:

http://libretro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4338&

(my girl won’t let me look right now as she is engrossed in Micro Machines).

Anyways - I’ll do some more thread hunting and see what I can come up with on my own behalf there before I may need to start a new thread on that issue.

Thanks again for the response.
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