Networking / Direct Connect to PC

[tmk5150]

Well Ive got the BASH prompt on teraterm, but havent been able to progress any further yet. Using a DSR7000 and have a Netgear FA120.

I do not however, have any network to speak of, ie, I'm running 1 computer with Win98 and a DSL modem, no router, no other computers.

I'm really only interested in direct connecting the Tivo to PC whenever I feel like offloading some movies or whatever to it. Is that possible?

Ive tried using a patch cable from Tivo to nic card, but cant seem to resolve my address problems with the ifconfig eth0 ..... command. When I just type ifconfig it gives me an address of 127.0.0.1.

Im obviously pretty new to networking so tell me, am i going in the right direction? Or is it pretty much a prerequisite that I'll need a router to get this up and running the way I'd like it to? Thanks in advance.

Also thanks to Mr Black, Cobelli, Bought and others whose knowledge has allowed me to at least get to the point I'm at now.

[newbie]

You can use a crossover cable BUT then you'll either need to disconnect your cable modem or buy a second NIC card for your computer whenever you want to connect your Tivo.

[tmk5150]

I thought I would post my resolution to the address problem I had for those who are not networking savvy and may also be attempting connection with only a patch or crossover cable.
The address as shown on my nic card was 10.0.0.xxx. I had tried assigning that address and other unrelated addys to no avail. What I did that finally worked was simply assigned the Tivo an address that was 1 higher than xxx.
Obviously when you have that 1 # that works, the other 2 addresses fall in line as 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.255. Connected easily this way and gained ftp access. Hopefully this will help other newbs in the future.

[maximus315]

I have a HDVR2 running monte. I can get everything to work except the telnet / network.


I have a belkin usb adapter and I am using a crossover cable to directly connect to my pc.

When I load the ethernet drivers usbcore, usb-ohci, pegasus I get the following error
"usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x50d/0x121) is not claimed by any active driver."

I also get random lines of -0100 1100 from the serial port

When I run ifconfig -a on the tivo I get the following

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 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 00:05:1B:00:35:EA
inet addr:12.xxx.aaa.yyBcast:12.xxx.aaa.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0


When I try to ping I get no response from the address 12.xxx.aaa.yy all packets lost

Do I need to set my Tivo address to something like 127.0.0.2 or something

I am lost as what to do next, any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Sleeper]

Originally posted by maximus315
I have a HDVR2 running monte. I can get everything to work except the telnet / network.

Are your PC and Tivo on the same network. Set the following IP's

PC: 192.168.0.2
Tivo 192.168.0.3

Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

[maximus315]

Networking noob

How do I check if they are on the same network (Win2000)?
I go to my network places and and computers near me: there is only my PC
Tried adding Tivo with \\12.xxx.aaa.yy but it can't find connection

Do I set the PC IP address by changing the Internet protocol (TCP/IP) properties page to "use the following IP address" and inset 192.168.0.2 in the ip address line (currently it is at obtain an ip address automatically)?

Thanks for the help

[Sleeper]

yes

[maximus315]

Thanks Sleeper it worked great

I also had to disable my firewall while connecting as it would give an error.

[tytyty]

The following are some ways to check both your current network settings on your Windows PC and to locate a Tivo's Ip address if using DHCP.

1. Open a "command" window
Start, run, type in the word command, enter

2. Check you PC's Network address
In the command window at the prompt type ipconfig /all, this will scroll information including ip address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway and DNS Servers

3. Check network connectivity
Type in ping <your ip address> (found above) but for the last number use 255 i.e. ping 192.168.0.255
this will return some lines saying Reply from 192.168.0.255. (If this fails or your ip starts with something other than 10, 172 or 192 you are connected directly to a cable modem or dsl modem you will need to get a network router/switch in order to connect your Tivo).

4. Discover other devices on your network
In the command window type arp -a this will return a list of other devices on your network look for a ip address other than the one you found for your PC assuming you enabled telnet on your Tivo attempt to telnet to the other ip's uuntil you get a response.

5. Tell your PC what the Tivo's ip is permanently (assuming your dhcp server gives out the same ip address at each connection.
Start, find all files. search for a file named hosts (usally in c:\windows\system32\x\x ) open it with wordpad, at the bottom of this you will see a line that says 127.0.0.1 localhost make a newline that says
<tivo ip address> tivo after a reboot of your PC you can now address the tivo by using the word tivo i.e. telnet tivo your ftp, tystudio and tytools programs will also be able to do the same thing.


I hope this helps some people.