RE: [OT] TiVo Upgrade / Linux Help Wanted

["Justin" <justin@xxxxxxx>]

Graham,

Your best bet would be a search around http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/
but I'll try to offer some advice anyway..

The box will not have ls, ping etc by default. I thought one of the
TivoNet/TurboNet disks around added these, but maybe I was wrong. Try
changing your shell by typing "tivosh" (get bash back by typing
"bash") this
will give you ls and at least it will be easier to look around. See if
/var/hack exists and if so what it has in it.

As I understand it installing a network card will disable your modem
and
make your Tivo look for its updates over the net so you really need a
permanent connection. If you have a permanent connection setup
properly,
your Tivo is unplugged from the phone line and it still cant get its
updated
then you might have a problem with transparent proxies. See here
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?s=3cf3159cde496dca7ba3d7
436c54aed4&threadid=24656&highlight=TiVoNET+transparent+proxy

I assume you have a good backup of your Tivo? It might be an idea to
take
out the network card, restore from the backup, get some new guide data
and
start again?

Hope that helps.

Justin.


-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Kiff [mailto:graham.kiff@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 05 May 2002 9:57 AM
To: UK HomeAutomation ListServer
Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] TiVo Upgrade / Linux Help Wanted


I installed a TiVoNet upgrade just over a week ago.
I'm now in the position of only having a bash prompt (ls command
doesn't
work though), no Ping, Telnet, FTP.
The Guide data has just run out as the daily call has been failing for
the
last week.

So basically my TiVo is virtually useless, therefore I'm in desperate
need
of a volunteer to talk me through reviving my TiVo.  My Linux skills
are
virtually useless - I'm a PC man!! ;-((

Many thanks
Graham

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