PS2 psx-pi-smbshare, no success on RPi4

[dstarr3]

I've had a number of problems trying to set this up, and I've solved a lot of them, but I'm finally at a point where I'm all out of ideas.

In terms of hardware, I have a 5xxxx PS2, a genuine Sony network adapter, a FMCB memory card off eBay from user riaddarth1990, and a Raspberry Pi 4 2GB.

FMCB is v1.966. Along the way, I solved other problems by updating OPL to version v1.2.0-Beta-1954-be74f36, which was the latest version yesterday when I last worked on this.

Ultimately, the closest I've gotten is an SMB Error 300 in OPL. I used the Sony Network Adapter Start-Up Disk (loaded used OPL from a flash drive) to test the network adapter and it's able to connect just fine.

I suspect the problem is on the psx-pi-smbshare installation side of things. Looking at some things on github, I saw this post in particular: https://github.com/toolboc/psx-pi-smbshare/issues/10#issuecomment-590012031

The user says they flashed Raspbian Lite Feb-2020, ran the install script, and it worked just fine for them. So I downloaded and flashed the Raspbian Lite Feb-2020 ISO, and am trying to run the same script as them, except it doesn't seem to finish. After about a minute of installing, I get "/home/pi/launchkai.sh: line 5: screen: command not found" repeating every 10 seconds or so, and that's it. I have to halt it if I want to restart the Pi. If I do halt it, shut it down, connect it to my PS2, set up OPL as the smbshare github describes, I get an Error 300.

At this point, I'm all out of ideas. Anybody know how I can proceed to hopefully get a successful install or at least a way past the Error 300? Thanks much

 

[r1vver]

And why is it asked here and not in the issues section of toolboc/psx-pi-smbshare ?

"/home/pi/launchkai.sh: line 5: screen: command not found"

you have "screen" installed? ( run "which screen" )
what's in line 5 of launchkai.sh?

 

[dstarr3]

Hoo boy. This turned out to be a perfect storm kind of thing. It turns out that this is a new Kai problem altogether that they're going to look into. I don't want online play anyway, so I modified PSX Pi SMBshare's install script to remove everything Kai-related. Then finally an install completed successfully. It was at this point where I stopped getting SMB Error 300 in OPL, and instead SMB Error 303, and through heaps of trial and error, I discovered this is because at the moment, PSX Pi SMBshare will only work with media that's formatted as MBR FAT32. No GPT, no NTFS, no exFAT. I saw plenty of guides that recommended NTFS, and I saw plenty of things on the github about how they added exFAT support, etc etc, so I didn't think anything of it for a long time. But for whatever reason, as of right now, only very specifically MBR FAT32 works, at least for me.

Boy, this was difficult to get up and running, lol. But I'm there. It's working now and I'm having fun. Hopefully this is useful to other people in the future.

 

[r1vver]

I see. Well, maybe they'll fix it someday.

 

[divv]

Hey I'm having issues with this as well. Are you able to share your modified install script? I'm wondering how you even got past the "Launching Xlink Kai" error

 

[stveclrk]

I'm having this same issue as well using a Pi 4 2GB, Raspian OS, newest daily build of OPL. I'm also getting error 300. I've been able to Samba to windows but unable to establish samba directly to the Pi. Which KaI modules did you delete specifically to get the samba to connect?

 

[dstarr3]

To install psx-pi-smbshare without Kai, I did the first half of the install instructions as normal:

cd ~
wget -O setup.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/toolboc/psx-pi-smbshare/master/setup.sh

Then in vim or nano, open that setup.sh that you just downloaded. Comment out lines 65-85, remove

\n@reboot bash /home/${USER}/launchkai.sh

from line 93, and comment out line 100.

Save your changes, then do the second half of the install instructions:

chmod 755 setup.sh
sudo ./setup.sh

Then it should install everything except Kai and Kai-related things and work without a hitch.