MY CHIP CANT ESTABLISH FTP CONNECTION HEEEELLLPPP!!!!!!!!

I have the smartxx v3 O/S installed on my v1.6 xbox and I am admitably a newb. I am using smart ftp (go figure) anyway I load the linux flash page and type in the ip address on my laptop 192.168.1.1 then hit connect (intel pentium 3 windows 2000 professional) but it says tried to establish connection with an unreachable host. Please hhheeelllppp!!! what do i do?

 

you need to create a network on your computer....and r u going through a router or direct connection?

 

Im going through a direct connection and i tried to create a network but that didnt work. im using my dads laptop and its kinda old. do ya think that has anyting to do with it? sides it doesnt have wireless internet so i cant use the router. I tried cute ftp to but nothing. Im flying blind here please help. what makes this even more anoying is that my chip didnt come with a manual so i had to guess what everything was the whole way. im lucky i even got this far.

 

you need a cross-over cable if your using a direct connection....

 

I did but it just wont work for some reason. the lights that confirm the operation of the cord lit up just like there suposed to but it still wont work. Do i need the ethernet cable that walmart sells thats made spacifically for the xbox or is technollagy just being cruel to me?

 

you don't need an ethernet cable at all, you need to be using a crossover cable. they look the same, but they're very different.

 

u can buy it at any computer store for like $8-$12

 

I DID USE A CROSSOVER CABLE!!!! I HAVE ONE. Let me read what it says on it. Ok im calm now it says patch cable so i might have been wrong but if there is a difference between an ethernet and a cross over then what are they. actually to make it simpiler(Pardon my spelling) can a crossover cable fit in an ethernet port. and is a patch cable a crossover?

 

yes a cross over can fit in an ethernet port thats why there called (ethernet cross over) cables yea there also known as patch cables..

 

wow that was fast. were you waiting her or something. anyway then my what do i do i tryed everything except for an abberiginee ceremony.is it just the quality of my ethernet or the security settings or something

 

the weirdest part is that i downloaded this application from their web site a remote flasher which i guess flashes bios's to my mod chip by the way their web site is www.smartxx.com anyway that thing detects my chip automatically and connects fine and i try to find out its properties but it has no right click option avalible pardon my spelling again, so i cant transfer them to my ftp. when i try my ftp it cant connect for jack squat. it just says tied to connet to an unreachable host client terminated connection and i type in all the propoties correctely host: xbox user: xbox Password: xbox IP: 192.168.0.7 but it doesnt work. I thought computers were my friends. Please dont be short with me im only 13 (predators dont get any ideas)
so please be patiant.

 

yea make sure ur firewall isnt blocking ur connection....2 ur xbox

 

how do i access my firewall?

 

ok u may wanna leave it off for only a little while beacuse viruses can get into ur computer....


1.start
2.control pannel
3.then fire wall setting
4.also turn off ur anti-virus but turn it back on when ur done FTPing

 

when i go to my control pannel it doesnt have a firewall icon it just has accesability options internet options gaming options mail network and dial up options regional options symantech liveup and system i just named the ones i thought most likely to have the firewall options

 

is there a security setting icon??

 

uuuhhhh hold on.................................................... no but i think my internet options does also (sorry for all the annoying ?s) when i plug the crossover into my computer do i plug it into the lan port or the network port

 

by the way whats the difference between pasv and port ftp???

 

idk....dude sorry

 

its ok thanks for your help