I am trying to figure out how to set up my wifi/wired connections manually with raspbmc. I know the recommended method for noobs, like myself, is to use the wireless network plugin, but i bought the pi with the intention of learning a bit more about Linux. I was successful at setting up wifi manually on my raspbarian image using the /etc/network/interfaces file and a creating another file for my wireless settings. My question is, would the same settings possibly work with raspbmc or would i need to go about doing this another way? I can't find a good tutorial on manual configuration of wifi for raspbmc. The /etc/networ/interfaces file on my raspbmc image is empty and I have read somewhere that raspbmc uses a different method, but it didn't really go into details.

The following is what my file looks like in raspberian:

/etc/network/interfaces

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet dhcp

allow-hotplug wlan0 auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet static address 192.168.1.100 gateway 192.168.1.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.0 wpa-conf /etc/wpa.config iface default inet dchp

/etc/wpa.config

network={ ssid="" proto=RSN key_mgmt=WPA-PSK pairwise=CCMP TKIP psk="" }

I am assuming that my wifi dongle is already installed, because when I run ifconfig I get the following at the end:

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:4d:46:9c:ca UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Any advice, or suggestions on where to start, or explanations of what is different between how raspbmc and raspbarian work to connect to the internet would be greatly appreciated. I know that I COULD set up a static IP lease on my router and configure this with the wifi settings plugin, but I really want to learn. I just don't know where to start on this.