I haven't tried with Mint 17, but have set it up with Ubuntu without problems. Have you tried taking down your firewall temporarily to set it up? I am pretty sure I did my setup inside the Chrome browser as well. On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 6:29 PM, <rhubarbpieguy at gmail.com> wrote: > > Has anyone setup Google Chromecast with Mint 17? Manual setup doesn't > seem to recognize it. I receive "We can't seem to connect to your > Chromecast." > > I do see my Chromecast7084 when I scan networks and I have my television > set to its HDMI port and the TV screen give the "set me up" message. > > I've read there might be an iptables problem, but > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range shows 32768 61000, which I believe > is necessary to use Chromecast. > > This is frustrating as Linux isn't sanctioned with Chromecast but I've > read it should work. It seems it should be quite easy but is proving to be > quite frustrating. > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- http://mtu.net/~jpschewe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140829/ba6b7e7b/attachment.html>