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Running XLink Kaid / kaid in OpenWrt

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Written by macsat

Thursday, 02 February 2006

From the XLink Kai faq:

"XLink Kai is a program that you run on your PC or Macintosh that allows you to play system-link / LAN-enabled games for your XBox, Playstation 2, Gamecube and PSP."

This Tutorial allows you to connect to the XLink Kai network without using a PC or Mac, but instead running a the XLink kai engine on your OpenWrt router.

Index

1) Installing
2) Configuring
3) Using

Installing

First thing to do is to download the Linux (MIPS) version of the XLink Kai: Evolution 7 server from:
http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/

After this, transfer the file (kaid-7.0.0.6-mips.tar.bz2) to your router, using ftp, sftp, wget or something (Check out the ftp tutorial!). /tmp would be a good place to store it for now. After moving the file to the router, we want to unpack it and move the files to the appropiate locations.

cd /tmp
tar -jxf kaid-7.0.0.6-mips.tar.bz2
cd kaid
cp kaid /usr/bin
chmpd +x /usr/bin/kaid
cp kaid.conf /etc/kaid.conf
cd /tmp
rm -R kaid

Configuring

Configuration all goes on in the file /etc/kaid.conf. A working Configurationfile could be something like the one placed in the downloads section of the site.

In the sample kaid.conf, you will need to change the following settings to make it run on your router:

EngineBind	Must be set to the LAN IP of the network and the port. If it is the only or primary router, a standard setting would be something like: 192.168.0.1:30000 or 192.168.1.1:30000
SniffDevice	Which device is the Game Console (Xbox, PS2, PSP, GameCube) connected to? This is normally the LAN or WLAN device on the router. In the sample file, this is set to br0 - since WLAN and LAN is bridged together in br0 in a standard setup with OpenWrt.
ConsoleMacs	This is a SPACE separated list of MAC addresses of the Consoles you have connected. I am not sure this is strictly needed since the setting might be overrules by the setting MacLearningMode = Auto - I had a few problems though, and setting this to the correct value seemed to work.
Username	This is your account username, as you have created on: http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/
Password	This is the password for your TeamXLink account.

Using

First thing is to run the XLink Kai Engine:

kaid -o /tmp/kaid.log -c /etc/kaid.conf -d

This should run the kaid engine (check output of ps). It will maintain a log called /tmp/kaid.log.

If you want to run it at startup (recommended) do the following:

echo "#!/bin/sh" > /etc/init.d/S60kaid
echo "kaid -o /tmp/kaid.log -c /etc/kaid.conf -d" >> /etc/init.d/S60kaid
chmod +x /etc/init.d/S60kaid

To use your newly installed, configured and running XLink Kai Engine, you need to run an appropiate client on your Game Console - or you could use a remote GUI on your PC, together with a compatible game. Most users of Modded XBox'es would probably use XBoxMediaCenter (XBMC) as their main dashboard which has support for XLink Kai build right in.
To get more information on usage, I recommend you checking out http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/

Last Updated ( Thursday, 02 February 2006 )

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