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Issues getting TivoNet to work
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Posted by: evilshandie

Ok, I’ve got the Phillips 30 hour Tivo, with an extra 100GB Maxtor drive added as the B drive.

Home network is through a Netgear RT314 Router. Router IP is 192.168.0.1.

I pulled the A drive, moved it to my PC, booted with Dylan’s, ran the script from the Worley disk, with Tivo IP set to 192.168.0.10, Mask 255.255.255.0, Gateway 192.168.0.1.

Installed TivoNet hardware (yellow wire removed), replaced the A drive, plugged in network cord, plugged in the Tivo. Everything booted normally, Tivo behaved fine (able to both play and delete shows no problem)

Received link light on both the ISA card inside the Tivo and on the Router itself. Unable, however, to ping 192.168.0.10 from either my PC (x.x.x.3) or the Router. Arp tables on PC and Router both show no MAC address resolved for x.x.x.10.

Powered down Tivo, pulled the A drive, booted with Dylan’s again. Verified that route had been copied away and replaced by a blank.

Joe’ed rc.sysinit, found:
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/bin/bash </dev/ttyS3 >& /dev/ttyS3 &
tnlited 23 /bin/bash -login &
(insmod -f /lib/modules/8390.o && insmod -f /lib/modules/tivone.o)
(ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 up && route.tivo add default gw 192.168.0.1)
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Changed this to read:
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/bin/bash </dev/ttyS3 >& /dev/ttyS3 &

export tivoether=true

if [ "$tivoether" = true ]; then
(
insmod /mnt/tridge/8390.o ;
insmod /mnt/tridge/tivone.o ;
sleep 2;
ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.10 up ;
route add default gw 192.168.0.1 ;
) &
fi
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Replaced the A drive, powered up Tivo again. Still exactly the same. Link lights on everything, but can’t ping the Tivo. Tivo behaves perfectly fine, backdoors are enabled in the System Information.

Can anyone suggest possible troubleshooting steps here that don’t involve using the serial connection? I’m a little sick of throwing money at this problem, and I’d never use the nullmodem again. If there’s no other options, I’ll just run out tomorrow and pick one up, but any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Posted by: embeem

Sounds alot like an error that was reported a few weeks ago when the network card wasn't configured properly; make sure it's set to irq 5, io 0x330, you'll need to pop it in a PC to verify this.

Apart from that you'll want to make sure that you load the modules after the rc.sysinit has probed for the debug board if you don't want it to reconfigure the card for the ip address set in PROM. Check the cables and verify that you have no odd firewalling rules blocking it, etc.

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Posted by: evilshandie

Grr. I don't actually have an ISA slot on my motherboard. I assume that IRQ settings are in software, and I'm not just missing a jumper on it? http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/smile.gif Ahh, well. I'll just have to drag it over to my girlfriend's house to check that then.

The lines that I added into the rc.sysinit file are as I mentioned above, and they are at the very end of the file. I assume that's going to load them after whatever else it's done, right?

Aside from that, cables and router should be just fine.

Posted by: evilshandie

Sweetness. Thank you tons.

I realized that the PC attached to the TV in the living room had an older mobo than the one in my room, and found me an ISA slot. Using the config disk that came with it, I found that it was set to IRQ 3 and IO 300. I fixed the IRQ, but there wasn't an option for IO 330, so I left it on 300.

Popped it back in, and now I can not only ping, but telnet as well, getting a bash-2.02# prompt.

One last question - If I'm running the 2.5.1 software, shouldn't that be the number on the bash prompt, or is that the version of something else? Just thought I'd check that I hadn't messed anything else up...