Hello,
I am trying to get XBMC working on Knoppix, such that I connect to it from an iPad using remote control for xbmc.
I need to setup Zeroconf in order to have my Knoppix being discovered on my local network.
I can connect to internet from my Knoppix/XBMC machine without any problem.

To setup avahi on Knoppix, I edited:
- /etc/localhost to a give it 'xbmcknoppix' as name.
- /etc/nsswitch.conf to have:
hosts: files mdns4_minimal dns mdns4
- /etc/default/avahi-daemon to have:
AVAHI_DAEMON_START=1

But following command fails:
ping xbmcknoppix.local

Any help in getting that working is more than welcome

Also i would like to understand, how I check if:
- knoppix 7 is using systemd, sysvinit or both?
- DBUS is running and working?
- if there is a firewall active?
- to ensure Avahi can open port UDP 5353?
- NetworkManager create problems with avahi?

This the documentation I used to try get avahi work:
http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Avahi
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToZeroconf
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Anahi