Stuck On Attaching To Orbital

Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:01 pm

Is your network reachable? No
Are you using a port-forward? Yes
Is your console being detected? N/A
Brief description of your network setup: Xbox and Laptop on hub, Laptop connected by wireless to a router and server. (See image below)
Do you use a software firewall? What brand? Have you made any changes to it? Zone Alarm, still doesn't work with firewall turned off
Operating System? XP Home SP2
Problem description? Kai gets stuck on Attaching to Orbital and will not connect

[KaiUserConfig]
kaiUsername=
kaiPassword=
kaiPort=30000
kaiDeepPort=0
kaiAccept=LOCAL
kaiTimeout=NOUI
kaiNIC=0
kaiLaunch=BOTH
kaiHomebrew=OFF
kaiPAT=ON
kaiAutoLogin=OFF
kaiAllowBadNICS=OFF
kaiWireless=
kaiUI=Default

Please Help. Thanks Smile

Kai Enthusiast Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 252

Follow this tutorial: www.packetme.com/misc/2nic.html (mark the regedit part!)

Your post is a great example on how support should be requested.

Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:18 pm

thanks, I'll give it a try

<<edit>>
packetme.com doesn't seem to be loading though

Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 0

You seem to know what you're doing, so I'll explain the problem in terms of TCPIP

"Attaching to Orbital" is where the Engine is attempting to make a *TCP* connection to an orb on port 34525 ... something is stopping this from happening..

TD

Kai Enthusiast Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 252

[MF]Xenocide wrote:

thanks, I'll give it a try

<<edit>>
packetme.com doesn't seem to be loading though

*Up again* open regedit and find the string "ipenablerouter" set the value from 0 to 1, close and reboot.

Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:59 pm

still doesn't work Sad

I'm not sure why its not working anyway, cause the old one worked fine.
I guess i could take a peek and see if port 34525 is open or not, but I see no reason why it wouldn't be.

Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 0

Also, turn PAT off in kaiConfig - see if that helps..

TD

Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 10:16 pm

PAT 's now off and still nope

Kai Enthusiast Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 252

Dump the connection with ethereal.

Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 10:52 pm

Well, I just downladed ethereal but i have never used it before, how would I go about doing this?

Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 6:45 pm

are you running kai on the wired server? or the laptop?

Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:41 pm

laptop and it worked fine with the old version, but for some reason it doesnt seem to work now with the new version

Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:59 pm

Done all the windows updates?

Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 9:54 pm

yup

Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:11 pm

[MF]Xenocide wrote:

laptop and it worked fine with the old version, but for some reason it doesnt seem to work now with the new version

Just to confirm, you have uninstalled winpcap ?

Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 0

OK,

Try actually uninstalling ZA, then rebooting... if it works then, we'll look into getting it working *with* ZA

TD

Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:59 pm

winpcap was uninstalled and I will give it a try with no ZA.

Ok I tried it with no ZA and it still doesnt work.

Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 9:23 pm

Try this: Open Zone Alarm to the firewall section and click on the Zones tab. Down at the bottom, click on "add" then "IP range". When the window opens it will say "trusted" and have 2 places for IP addresses. In the first one, enter the beginning IP address that your router assigns to computers on the network and in the second box enter the ending ip address of the range that kai assigns. Enter a description in the next box. See, sometimes even when you shutdown Zone Alarm, it will still block traffic. This may not be your problem, but that's what I had to do on my old pc once, although in my case, I couldn't even get a ping through.

Do you have dhcp on the LAN at all ?

Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 11:48 pm

I think the problem might be residing im my server. At the moment it is the DHCP server, and the wireless router is just a wireless hub. I don't think it has anything to do with ZA, because the old versions worked fine. Even when I uninstalled ZA Xlink didnt work.

Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 2:52 pm

Make sure your laptop can use port 34525

That is the port used to connect to the orbs.