Re: [OT] TiVo - Network enabled but still requires phone line attached.

["Nick Austin" <nick.w.austin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marcus,

It may be better to continue this on the forums here:
http://www.tivocommunity.com

There are various threads already in the "TiVo UK" section about
similar problems
such as this one:
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=282072

Nick.


On 12/11/06, Marcus Warrington <marcus.warrington@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Nick
>
> Thanks for the reply. Yes I have used the nic_config_tivo and set the
> TiVo to network rather than dial, but it still wants to use the phone
> line ! Everything seems to be setup correctly, in fact I have my TiVo
> emailing me daily with its status+programmings its going to record etc
> (DailyMail hack) so I KNOW it can see and use the network correctly,
it
> just insists on using the phone line !
>
> Arrgghh.. its driving me mad.
>
> Marcus
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Nick Austin
> Sent: 10 December 2006 18:32
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] TiVo - Network enabled but still requires
> phone line attached.
>
> The ,#401 prefix was a trick that is only recognised but certain
> versions of the TiVo software. AFAIK, it doesn't work for UK TiVo's.
>
> The normal way to change a UK TiVo is using the
"nic_config_tivo"
> utility on the Silicondust CD. This is the CD supplied with each
> Turbonet or Cachecard. Sometimes you will also find a copy of this
> utility stored on the TiVo in the /sbin directory in which case it can
> be run via telnet.
>
> Otherwise you will have to transfer the TiVo hard drive to a PC, boot
> the SiliconDreams CD and run the utility from the CD.
>
> Nick.


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