Change from modem to broadband

**meanderingmac** · 06-02-2007, 12:56 PM

I'm looking for a bit of help - had the tivo a few years now (sigh - and what a beauty she is) but am of the "if-aint-broke-don't-fix-it" ilk - which usually happens when shifting houses (and internet setup, etc). As a result, knowledge retention on the old workings of tivo are not that fabulous.

so...its a Philips:
Software System: 3.0-01-1-000
Kernel Information
Version 2.1.24-TiVo-2.5
Compile #1 Tue Sep 7 02:27:11 EST 2004

Has a network card connected via cable to an ADSL wireless firewall router for network connection.
Guide data up to now has been via modem. Unfortunately (perhaps the line quality in this rural area) when dialing in it at this property it has always returned a wrong number error message - unless I am listening on the phone (my Tivo may have issues!), so I would network connect via pc and select "make daily call" once a week or so, while listening to it connect, which worked fine for six months or so. The last successful call was Tuesday, Feb 06 at 2:25 pm. Since then I get a "service not answering" error message.

Not sure what is causing this (Aunty Teressa at may have changed the Xtra dial-up??), but I would like a fully automated setup anyway, so looked to get guide data via broadband (which I have always had available here).

So I telneted and rw to Read Write.

Replaced the tclient.conf in etc/ containing the dial up, account name and password using aceFTP with:

# This is for the server emulator on minnie.
127::210.48.107.133:8000:::

Telnet ro to read only.

Then set Pal guided setup mode and rebooted. Went through the setup, but when it goes to dial it comes up with "Failed. No dial in number chosen". Tried the ,#401 prefix, same result.

Any suggestions for automating either broadband or dial-up guide data would be much appreciated...

...Embarassed in anticipation of the simple solution...

**Darren King** · 06-02-2007, 02:21 PM

Originally Posted by meanderingmac

Has a network card connected via cable to an ADSL wireless firewall router for network connection. Guide data up to now has been via modem.

Huh? You have ADSL but choose to make calls via dialup for guide data? Why don't you simply use the ADSL connection over the network to get guide data?

**Wibble** · 06-02-2007, 03:44 PM

A couple of thing to check, do you have your ADSL router setup as the gateway on your tivo.
(use route to find out)

Also try:
wget http://210.48.107.133
you should get something like this: (in which case your connectivity is ok)
--17:39:57-- http://210.48.107.133/
=> `index.html'
Connecting to 210.48.107.133:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1,858 [text/html]

The other thing to check is the line endings on tcclient.conf. But I'm not sure if it matters.

**meanderingmac** · 06-02-2007, 04:57 PM

Ahuh. Had the Tivo up and running here for sometime before I set the wireless network up, so started with dail up and... didn't break, so didn't fix it...

The wget provides the response exactly as listed - so connectivity is okay. How do I check that the router is the gateway on the tivo (you may have guessed that IT is not my occupation)?

**petestrash** · 06-02-2007, 08:27 PM

Might be best to paste your tclient.conf and rc.net files here.

Peter.

**meanderingmac** · 07-02-2007, 07:50 AM

Thanks Peter.

tclient in etc/ contains

# This is for the server emulator on minnie.
127::210.48.107.133:8000:::

rc.net in etc/rc.d/ contains

#
#!/bin/sh
#

if /sbin/insmod -f /lib/modules/turbonet.o macaddr=101010 timing=3 ; then
export DYNAMIC_NET_DEV=eth0
mkdir -p /var/state/dhcp
/sbin/dhclient -q eth0 2>/dev/null &
fi

**petestrash** · 07-02-2007, 11:35 PM

the MAC address looks a little funky, I would have expected octlets like 00:0B:AD:21:2A:1B. But it seems to work for your wget test.

might just want to run though the basic tests here which will also check your gateway amongst other things.

If you want to make any changes use nic_config_tivo.

Peter.

**meanderingmac** · 11-02-2007, 03:53 PM

...finally got a bit of time to check this out...

Here are the checks

[TiVo [p0] ~]# ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0B:AD:10:10:10
inet addr:192.168.1.4 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:45 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:31 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0
Interrupt:29

Looking good....

[TiVo [p0] ~]# route
route_info, afname=inet, options=33
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

another goodie...

[TiVo [p0] ~]# ping -c 5 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.9 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.7 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.7 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.7 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.7 ms

--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.7/0.9/1.9 ms

going fine... even tried the google 216.239.37.99 in California - no problems.

[TiVo [p0] ~]# wget http://131.244.9.101/index.html
--17:37:06-- http://131.244.9.101/index.html
=> `index.html.4'
Connecting to 131.244.9.101:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 7,388 [text/html]

0% [ ] 7,388 0.00G/s ETA 00:00

Last-modified header invalid -- time-stamp ignored.
17:37:08 (0.00 GB/s) - `index.html.4' saved [7388/7388]

Now let me know if I'm wrong... that tells me the network is operating fine and needs no changes. There should be no connectivity problems through the ADSL and its firewall??

Heres where I think the problem is...

[TiVo [p0] ~]# dbget /State/PhoneConfig DialPrefix
{}
[TiVo [p0] ~]#

the dialprefix needs to be ,#401 so...

[TiVo [p0] ~]# dbsetx /State/PhoneConfig DialPrefix ',#401'
/State/PhoneConfig DialPrefix val was: {}
/State/PhoneConfig DialPrefix set to : ,#401
[TiVo [p0] ~]#

all is sweetness...

nic_config_tivo

TiVo TurboNet/AirNet/CacheCard on Tivo Configure - 20041218

Copyright 2002-2004 Silicondust Engineering Ltd. All rights reserved.

Detecting TiVo hard drive...

Detecting TiVo partitions...
Active kernel partition = /dev/hda3.
Inactive kernel partition = /dev/hda6.
Active root partition = /dev/hda4.
Inactive root partition = /dev/hda7.
Var partition = /dev/hda9.

Determining software version...
Philips HDR Series Stand Alone TiVo running 3.0-01-1-000

Remounting root partition...
Root successfully remounted as writable.

Checking installation type...
Configuring TurboNet installation.

Checking script...
Complete.

Current/New Configuration:
timing setting = optimal
mac address = 00:0B:AD:10:10:10
ip address = dhcp
ip subnet mask = dhcp
ip gateway = dhcp
debug level = off

Options
1: Change timing setting
2: Change MAC address
3: Change IP address/gateway
4: Change debug logging option
9: View/extract log file
0: Apply and exit
!: Exit without saving

[0..6]? 0

Updating script...
Complete.

Clear the log file on the tivo [y/n]? y

Clearing log file...
Complete.

Remounting root partition...
Root successfully remounted as readonly.

Configuration update complete, reboot for changes to take effect.

and I reboot.

Then, to check to see if the setting is retained...

[TiVo [p0] ~]# dbget /State/PhoneConfig DialPrefix
{}
[TiVo [p0] ~]#

Doh! Any ideas why this is not retained? I checked by forcing a daily call but get the error message "Failed No dial in number chosen".

Can I manually change the file which contains this parameter? Which is it?

**petestrash** · 11-02-2007, 04:46 PM

On current Australian images /State/PhoneConfig DialPrefix is set in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit around line 890. But I don't know if this is the same for NZ images.

Peter.

**meanderingmac** · 11-02-2007, 05:53 PM

Cheers Peter.

Had a look in there...

# This will make TiVo try a daily call over the network or modem depending on
# the setting in /etc/oztivo.conf.
if [ "$modem" = "1" ] ; then
dbrm /State/PhoneConfig DialPrefix
# This will make the modem behave better in Oz
dbsetx /State/PhoneConfig DialToneCheck 0
#dbsetx /State/PhoneConfig CallWaitingPrefix *44 # #87 for Optus and *11*3# for faxtream duet
#dbsetx /State/PhoneConfig TollFreeNum 99990000
#dbsetx /State/PhoneConfig DialInNum 99990000
else
dbsetx /State/PhoneConfig DialPrefix ',#401'
fi

When modem = 1 in the etc/oztivo.conf the tivo appears to use the modem. How do I set the modem to 0? The oztivo.conf looks like

# OzTiVo menu configuration settings file
# Please do not edit this file
# Put the TiVo disk back in your PC to reconfigure
nic=TurboNet
ip=DHCP
mac=00:0B:AD:10:10:10
hostname=oztivo
modem=1
pppondss=0
phone=086767000
username=myusername
password=mypassword

(with username and password changed to protect the innocent?!?)
I note that it says please don't edit this file. So this is set elsewhere?
Also, I'm a little confused as the phone number, username and password are old (were used at a property I lived at 6 months ago) so it must pick up the current one from tclient.conf?? But not the modem setting?

Shall I be naughty and set the modem to 0 in oztivo.conf, see what happens?