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2 Turbonet cards
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Posted by: morse

I have two SA Sony Tivos with Turbonet cards on my LAN. It appears, according to the DHCP server, that both cards have the same MAC address(Mark from 9thtee confirmed this might be the case). Are there any fixes that would allow the simultaneous use of the two Turbonet cards?
Thanks for help.

Posted by: zaknafein

The MAC is specified in software. I doubt your MACs are identical, since 3.0 defines the MAC based on the last few digits of your TiVo service number.

Posted by: morse

I guess I used "MAC address" to mean Ethernet hardware address. My two dhcp leases mention the same such address.

Posted by: SteakMan

quote:
Originally posted by morse
I guess I used "MAC address" to mean Ethernet hardware address. My two dhcp leases mention the same such address.

I just wanted to point out that you used the term correctly, but the MAC address can be changed. Someone else will have to help you though because I don't have 3.0. IIRC the Turbonet install in 2.5 asked what you wanted the MAC to end with.

-SteakMan-

Posted by: zaknafein

Strange. I can't remember, but nic_install might let you change it. the last 6 digits of the address are specified by macaddr= on the command line while the modules is loaded, so if you can find the file the driver is loaded from, you can change it manually there.

Posted by: captain_video

Download the TurboNet software and burn it to a CD. Pull your Tivo drives and insert them in your PC (one at a time). Reload the TurboNet software per the installation instructions from the bootable CD. You will be prompted to assign a MAC address as part of the setup (actually, just the last 6 digits, I believe). I just used the example for one and bumped it up by one number for the other. You will also be assigning a static IP address to the Tivo.

I have two DTivos with TurboNet cards that I use for video extraction (I'm waiting for lightning to strike me now) and I can extract videos simultaneously from both units at the same time to my PC via my ethernet connection. I basically use extraction for archiving some of my favorite shows for personal use only and also for timeshifting movies to watch later on DVD-RW. I erase the -RW discs when I'm done and reuse them for other movies. This way I can record far more shows than the capacity of my Tivo drive can handle.

Posted by: lart2150

I don't remember where but one of the files that you edit for always on ppp with 3.0 has the mac address for tivo/turbonet

Posted by: devnull

There's a TiVo native nic_install binary available. No need to pull your drives.

gary

Posted by: dark strider

...um...where? that would be great....

Posted by: devnull

Took some looiking, but I found it

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-v...&threadid=70478

gary

Posted by: jafa

Hi guys,

Sorry, but the native config program only works after you have installed from the cd.

With v3 both tivos sould get different MAC addresses as it get it from the serial number.

Otherwise the install CD will allow you to change the mac address.

Nick

Posted by: morse

Thanks for all the help, the problem was fixed by, conveniently, using the native Tivo nic_install(this was an update of an original cd install).
Given Jafa's comment, it is strange though that they both got assigned the same (default?) MAC address.
Now, if I can only figure out how to solve transparent proxy problem that prevents the execution of the daily call...