After I moved apartments, my Wii mysteriously stopped working — at all. No power LED. A quick call to NOA, and they sent us a new power supply; when that didn’t work, they sent us shipping labels (BYOB) to send it in for repairs. I got it back, and all the downloaded stuff was free to redownload, but the MAC address for the wireless card was different, and all my save data was gone (probably due to my girlfriend looking for the paperclip button to eject the disc that was stuck in the Wii when we sent it in, and finding instead the CMOS battery).
All this, by the way, was free of charge from NOA. Whatever else I’ve got to say about them, I’ll say this: they make a decent game console, and their customer service is pretty f’n decent.
So, we have a Wii.
This is pretty much what I went through:
- Ooooh, shiny.
- Two days of Splinter Cell: Double Agent
- Where’s the web browser?
- What the fuck do you mean, I have to pay to download a god damned web browser?!
- The remote works with Linux now.
- Drunken Wii sports with the girlfriend.
Eventually, I’m sure I’ll get around to doing craziness with it, just like everyone else.
[UPDATE] Hey, cool, I can stream radio stations to it.
The way my home network is set up, all I really have to do to get a new machine on the network is plop the MAC address in a host declaration and forget about it, since I’ve got dynamic DNS updating working. However, the new Wii doesn’t send a hostname all the time: it asks for “Wii” when it’s downloading the weather and all that jazz, but nothing when you launch the web browser — sorry, “internet channel”.
A quick Google, and I found this little gem. (Scroll down to the comments.)
Long story short:
ddns-hostname = host-decl-name;
and now I can continue plopping things in dhcpd.conf, and DNS takes care of itself. I just add a host declaration with the MAC address:
host foo { hardware ethernet ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff; }
and a new host magically appears as foo.WIRELESS.LAN.
(I don’t know why I caps it like that.)
