I just got a new Raspberry Pi Model B and am planning on playing with it as a Media Center system. Getting the basics up and running took a little more work then I expected as I didn’t have neither HDMI/DVI converter nor USB Keyboard (PS/2 rules).

I had a pre-formatted SDCard ready to roll but when I attached the network cable and power unfortunately the device didn’t connect to the network – plugging it into the TV I saw that the it was stopping at the NOOBS loader. This allows you to get the Pi up and running easily, without network access, and to select and install from a menu of Operating Systems. Kind of conflicted about how good an idea this is to the typical linux/electronics hobbiest. Effectively this acts like a recovery partition after the first install.

Plug in a mouse, select Raspbian (as I usually work on Debian) and a few mins later the install is complete. Reboot and complete the setup and it was networked. Once I found the IP I updated and upgraded all the packages and installed XRDP for remote desktop access.

At this point I wanted to check that SMB would work – it wouldn’t 🙁

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo mkdir /mnt/Media
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo vi /etc/fstab
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ mount /mnt/Media
mount: only root can mount //192.168.1.8/samba on /mnt/Media
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo !!
sudo mount /mnt/Media
mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
mount error(19): No such device
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cd /mnt
pi@raspberrypi /mnt $ ls
Media
pi@raspberrypi /mnt $ mount -t cifs -o user=xxxx //192.168.1.8/samba /mnt/Media
mount: only root can do that
pi@raspberrypi /mnt $ sudo !!
sudo mount -t cifs -o user=xxxx//192.168.1.8/samba /mnt/Media
Password:
mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
mount error(19): No such device
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
pi@raspberrypi /mnt $ sudo modprobe cifs
libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod.c:554 kmod_search_moddep: could not open moddep file '/lib/modules/3.6.11+/modules.dep.bin'

This was something of a puzzle as both cifs-utils and libsmbclient are installed. Turns out that the firmware was out of date – a quick rpi-update and reboot and problem solved!

pi@raspberrypi /mnt $ sudo rpi-update
*** Raspberry Pi firmware updater by Hexxeh, enhanced by AndrewS
*** Performing self-update
% Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   135  100   135    0     0    240      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   323
100  7177  100  7177    0     0   7315      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  7315
*** Relaunching after update
*** Raspberry Pi firmware updater by Hexxeh, enhanced by AndrewS
*** ARM/GPU split is now defined in /boot/config.txt using the gpu_mem option!
*** We're running for the first time
*** Setting up firmware (this may take a few minutes)
Cloning into '//root/.rpi-firmware'...
remote: Counting objects: 3378, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2610/2610), done.
Receiving objects: 100% (3378/3378), 25.96 MiB | 1.20 MiB/s, done.
remote: Total 3378 (delta 1608), reused 1117 (delta 504)
Resolving deltas: 100% (1608/1608), done.
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