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BigO
10-08-2003, 01:24 AM
I have been at this hacking thing for almost a month now.

I had troubles here and there but I thought I was home free when I finally got the tivo on the network, telnet ftp and tytools working.

I got 16 gigs of shows in 3 days. only issue was a Dolby program (side story)

Any way I did a reboot, (turn unit to stand bye, and unplug unit, plug back in) that's the way Direct TV told me to do it. I have since learned more graceful approaches.

But the point is after a reboot no network lights I am using a lynksys USB200M. IT has been since Saturday night and I have tried to redo it by the book 5 times now I had tried different things. I am dong sector wipes of the drive and dolly copies now to be as thorough as I can be.

I just don't get it. I don't mean to rant but I have done searches on USB for days and I just don't hear about it. I have to presume the kernel and genromfs is working. I plug the us device in an xp machine and it comes up just fine.

Is the USB prone to damage? Does it get turned off by direct TV.

I was home free. I have seen it work and have the files to prove it but I just don't seem to be getting it to work any more.

Using hackinit. Same as I did before.

I would love any ideas or USB testing ideas.

I haven't been able to get the serial hook for bash. I will try again to get boot info but that is still new to me. I usually got in by Ethernet.


Thanks for any help in advance.

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I fixed it, couldn't get serial bash up so, I checked software version. Sure enough it wasn't the U version. So I download one and went through the steps and every thing is working great again. Now if I can only learn how to delete this thread :)

jdiner
10-08-2003, 03:04 AM
There is a series2 forum here on this site. You will most likely have better luck answering your questions there.

But in quick answer yes. DTV turns off the USB when it boots normally. But once successfully hacked it should stay up.

Did you do the serial port hack as well? If so go in that way and check to see what is going on with the networking.

--jdiner