Questions about 25Xtreme

[NutMonkey]

I'm having some trouble getting the 25Xtreme to work correctly on my DSR6000. My PC is running linux, and I want to set up the Tivo so that it can talk to my PC only. I bought a second NIC for my PC, and a crossover cable going between this second NIC (eth1) and the TurboNET. Unfortunately I can't ping the TurboNET and I'm not sure where the problem lies. On the Tivo I installed the upgrade.tar.gz file and modified the rc.net file to comment out the DHCP section. At the top of rc.remote-login I added the static IP as listed in the readme. On my PC I used the following command:

ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.100 netmask 255.255.255.0

Now, I'm not real familiar with these network settings that dhcpcd usually takes care of for me, but I shouldn't need to do anything with route, since eth1 and the Tivo's IP address (192.168.1.99) are on the same subnet, right?

Well, telnet'ing or ping'ing the Tivo doesn't work. I don't have a serial cable because I was hoping to skip that part and just be able to telnet into it. So now I have a couple questions:

1) How can I tell which partition is the active one? Initially output of one of the programs stated that /dev/hda7 was the active partition, but possibly when the flashing and rebooting happened it switched to using /dev/hda4 and I untarred upgrade.tar in the wrong partition?

2) Any way to check the logs without being able to log in? I tried using the C-E-C Thumbs Up code, but it popped up a message saying the Tivo had not called in for over 30 days...

Anything else I may have missed? Any help is appreciated.

[BubbleLamp]

What is the IP address of the other NIC in your PC? If it too is on the 192.168.1 network, your PC will most likely be using it to ping, since it's probably designated as your default gateway.

Also, if you are using a crossover cable, do you see link lights on both NICs? If not, then there's a hardware problem.

[NutMonkey]

The other NIC is on a standard cable modem network. Hardware seems to be ok, but I'm not sure. The SubTest part seems to work, so the partition seems to be ok. I think I'm going to have to get a long serial cable, this A drive shuffling is getting annoying..

[BubbleLamp]

Originally posted by NutMonkey
The other NIC is on a standard cable modem network. Hardware seems to be ok, but I'm not sure. The SubTest part seems to work, so the partition seems to be ok. I think I'm going to have to get a long serial cable, this A drive shuffling is getting annoying..

I repeat, if both NICs in the PC are on the 192.168.1 network, it will not know that it needs to use the "other" NIC to reach the TiVo. Set the IP address of the TiVo and the PC NIC it's hooked to to something completely different (10.0.0.1/10.0.0.2) and see if it works. Also, make sure they both have the same subnet mask.