Hi TiVo Software People,
I've been thinking that it would be good to develop a new TiVo network card that uses a chip other than the Asix AX88796L as used on the Turbonet (and Terbonet and soon Turbonzet).
From a hardware perspective, the AX88796L has a lot of fine pitch pins, and has alot of external components, meaning that they are a pain to assemble, and have extra cost. So the overall benefit of a different chipset would be a cheaper TiVo network card.

From a software perspective the Asix chip is tried and true, and seems to work perfectly, so no reason to change that I can se.

My question for the software people is, if there is a linux driver available for a particular ethernet chip, how difficult would it be to compile the driver for a series 1 TiVo?

I would supply prototypes to anyone capable of developing a driver.
Cheers,
John