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.
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