The process to set a static IP address to a Mythbuntu box is very similar to Ubuntu, given that Mythbuntu is built upon Ubuntu. In Mythbuntu, choose “Utilities/Setup” from the main menu, then “Setup”, and finally “Mythbuntu”. After putting in the password, you will be presented with the Mythbuntu Control Centre. Under “Advance Management”, you will be able to “Launch Terminal”.
First, check out what your current settings are.
ifconfig -a
Take a note what your current broadcast, subnet mask, and gateway settings are. Also, have you decided on an IP address for your Mythbuntu box yet?
Next, issue this command to modify the Mythbuntu box’s network settings.
sudo pico /etc/network/interfaces
In the pico text editor tool, you probably only see a set of “lo”, or loopback, settings. Let’s add a new set for “eth0” so that the whole content of the file looks something like the following. Note your addresses may be different. In my case, I set the box’s static IP address to 192.168.1.3, for example, and yours may be different.
auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.1
Finally, restart the network card with the following command.
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
That’s it! You should now be able to access the Mythbuntu box with the same IP every time now! No more trying to guess what the IP address might change to every time you turn it on!