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Need help with Turbonet driver installation
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Posted by: mcgovern

Hi. I was under the impression that I shouldn't install any Turbonet drivers if I was running 3.0. I got the board installed, changed the prefix to ,#401 and it is able to make the daily call.

I would now like to enable telnet and FTP, and be able to play around with Tivoweb and TCS. It looks like I do need to install drivers in order to do this. I don't have a CD burner. When I originally hacked the unit to enable bash over serial I used Dylan's Boot Disk (I believe, it was quite a while ago- might be mistaken).

Ideally I'd like to get the drivers installed without having to pull the hard drive. It looks like nic_config_tivo can only reconfigure the drivers, not install them. Can I install them manually?

If I can't install them manually and have to pull the hard drive, can I get by with Dylan's Boot Disk and the driver floppy, or do I have to have the CD?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

P.S. I thought that having the card installed would force the backdoor to be enabled, but System Information doesn't indicate that. Should it?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Posted by: ClearToLand

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Originally posted by mcgovern
Ideally I'd like to get the drivers installed without having to pull the hard drive.

I'm just preparing to install my TurboNet card, but, thinking about it logically, without FTP, I don't see how you're going to get anything "new" onto your TiVo. :down:

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If I can't install them manually and have to pull the hard drive, can I get by with Dylan's Boot Disk and the driver floppy, or do I have to have the CD?

From my "playing around", any Linux Boot Floppy that loads Linux into a RamDisk and then runs it should do the trick. Once Linux is running from RAM, you can swap the Boot floppy with the TurboNet driver floppy, mount it, cd to it, chmod the executable, yada, yada, yada per the text file. :up:

IMHO... ;)

Try it! What do you have to lose but time...

Posted by: mcgovern

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ClearToLand
[B]I'm just preparing to install my TurboNet card, but, thinking about it logically, without FTP, I don't see how you're going to get anything "new" onto your TiVo.

Hi. I can transfer anything I would need to the Tivo using Zmodem. I agree that the two floppy method seems promising, just wanted some verification. Due to the way my entertainment center and computer are set up, pulling the drive will be a pain- so I'd like to get it done right the first time. Thanks for the reply.

Posted by: mcgovern

Everything is working now. Just thought I'd post this in case it could help someone else, or anyone could shed some more light on things.

I installed a DSL router at the same time I installed the Turbonet. I was following along with the instructions at 9thtee.com, and saw that the script they have installs three packages of tools and modifies rc.sysinit to start tnlited. I already had the tools installed, so I modified rc.sysinit manually hoping all would work.

I was pinging 192.168.1.100 thinking it was my Tivo, but when I tried to telnet to that address it didn't work. I finally figured out that the router assigned 192.168.1.100 to the network card in my PC, and that my Tivo was 192.168.1.101. When I telnetted to that it worked fine.

Something else I ran into is that when I tried to start tnlited at the prompt it failed. Having Bash running over the serial port must have been the reason, because it started fine from rc.sysinit once I switched the serial port over to the external modem (for use with elseed).

I was very close to pulling the drive and running the
nic_install turbonet
script. What would that have done?

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