Failed Getting Account Status - Thomson

[TimesOwn]

I am finding when the Internet has been disconnected (ISP issues) I do a manual data download via version 2.0.0's Phone page that it gets stuck in a loop on the Last Attempt Status: "SettingUp", however it does seem to suceed, as noted in the info page and on refreshing the Phone page it shows suceeded. 1.3.1 (2 off) does not seem to do this.

[TimesOwn]

On checking I noted that my firewall's ARP table only reported one of the 3 static TiVo's (which do have different Ip and MAC addresses) however the hostnames were not reported either. I edited two of the Host names in /etc/dhclient.conf to make these unique, now the 3 statics appear in the ARP table, although the host names remain unreferenced. Makes me wonder if this might have been a factor in the problems? Did I do this host name change in the right place?

[petestrash]

Not sure about UK v2.5.5, but the current OzTiVo release 1.6.2 sets it via oztivo.conf.

dhclient.conf was previoulsy used.

Peter.

[TimesOwn]

Interesting. My oztivo.conf says:

# OzTiVo menu configuration settings file
# Please do not edit this file
# Put the TiVo disk back in your PC to reconfigure
nic=Cachecard
ip=192.168.x.x
mac=A0:0B:AD:A0:0A:1D
hostname=
modem=0
pppondss=0
netmask=255.255.255.0
gateway=192.168.x.x
ssid=
wep=
wepkey=

I'd be happeir to put it in here and try it if it didn't say the first 3 commented lines, which do not seem to make sense, given the presumed purpose of this file, typically one would control the settings here and maybe reboot? Presumably if one keeps the details in /etc/rc.d/rc.net consistent it should be ok to edit here and there simultaneously? Are there other places to coordinate also that the PC installer does, noting it does not offer the option of hostname, at least that I recall?

[petestrash]

Since hostname= is blank your version of software does not take it from here.

The reason we don't want people manually changing the file is that it is read by other programs, and setup by the installer.

Peter.