Series 1 Networking

[wildfrog]

I have had several series two tivos and used the usb ports to set up networking. Looking at the inards of the Sony svr-2000 it sure looks like a pci interface in there. Has anyone ever tried using a little bus extender and plugging in a regular ethernet card? I know you can buy one from 9thtee for $62 but I have lots of cards that linux would support and I am very cheap. Even have a little card with three connectors I could try it with but dont really want to see smoke out of my new toy. Or anyone ever build their own and publish it? I can do my own boards and smt work.

[captain_video]

Look here:

http://samba.org/tridge/tivo-ethernet/isa_adapter_howto.txt

and here:

http://samba.org/tridge/tivo-ethernet/

[AlphaWolf]

As is already mentioned in the documentation there, this is not a PCI connect, rather it behaves more like an ISA connect. You're better off just getting the cachecard, or turbonet if you want to be cheaper. Not only do they cost less money wise than buying all of those little parts, but you don't have to go through all of the work of building them.

[captain_video]

The links I provided basically tell you how to build an outdated Tivonet adapter. It still requires an old NEC2000 ISA NIC for ethernet connectivity. The parts list isn't all that extensive and they're pretty generic from what I remember with maybe one or two exceptions so I don't see cost as an issue if you're just looking for a DIY project. The NEC2000 NIC should be pretty cheap if you can find one on ebay.