Using TiVonet to go through guided setup

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Well, I finally got fed up with my TiVo being in boat anchor mode due to lack of headend/guide data because I don't have a land line (cellular only) so I bought a TiVonet adapter etc....

I already had a bash prompt on my TiVo so I didn't feel it was necessary to go through the trouble of physically removing the drive, using Dylan's boot disk etc. that is outlined in the tivofloppy instructions... Instead I used Jack's TivoNet HOWTO. Everything seemed to work great. I could ping, telnet, and ftp to my TiVo over my LAN. According to a comment at the end of Jack's HOWTO I was under the impression that my TiVo would now be able to make it's daily call without any further modification. Seeing as my TiVo has never made ANY successful phone calls I was wondering if I would be able to make the initial guided setup calls via TiVonet so I gave it a whirl....

I started a tail -f /var/log/tclient and tail -f /var/log/kernel and then began my guided setup calls. The first call failed and by looking at the log file I saw that /etc/tcphonehome.tcl was failing when it tried to assign a route, so I commented out the following section of the .tcl

if { $fAddRoute } {
#
# If using Ethernet for a call, we can just add a default
# route to take us anywhere.
#
if {[catch {exec /bin/getprom -gateway} gw]} {
putlog "couldn't get gateway addr to add route on ethernet"
setCallStatus $StatusStrings::Failed 0
return
}
if {[catch {exec /sbin/route add default gw $gw netmask 0.0.0.0} res]} {
putlog "couldn't add route to gateway over the ethernet: $res"
setCallStatus $StatusStrings::Failed 0
return
}
}


I then ran through guided setup again and everything worked great! (posting while the TiVo indexes all the new data)

My questions are the following:

1. Has anyone else had to do this? or had this same problem?

2. Should this have been necessary? (Or did I go wrong somewhere during my TiVonet setup)

3. Will this affect my daily call ability?


Thanks in advance. As you can tell I don't post here, but I sure have spent MANY hours reading and the info here has been a tremendous help.

This was done on a Phillips 212 w/ 1.3 software

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