Cachecard "rc.net" Contents Please

[yungee]

Hi all.

I'm having problems installing my new cachcard. The driver installation disk is for some reason insisting on installing the "turbonet.o" revision of the rc.net file.

When the Tivo boots, the cache card screen shows the driver is not loading.

Would someone with a cachecard please be so kind as to post the contents of their /etc/rc.d/rc.net file?

Many thanks. :up:

[Pete77]

I'm having problems installing my new cachcard. The driver installation disk is for some reason insisting on installing the "turbonet.o" revision of the rc.net file.

When the Tivo boots, the cache card screen shows the driver is not loading.

Would someone with a cachecard please be so kind as to post the contents of their /etc/rc.d/rc.net file?

Are you following the www.steveconrad.co.uk/tivo/cachecard.html guide?

My rc.net file contents are as follows:-

#
#!/bin/sh
#

if /sbin/insmod -f /lib/modules/turbonet2.o macaddr=00:0B:AD:4C:3A:4B ; then
export DYNAMIC_NET_DEV=eth0
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
/sbin/route.tivo add default gw 192.168.0.1 netmask 0.0.0.0
fi

[yungee]

Thanks for your post Pete. It pointed me at the right module.

It was most odd. I made a boot disk using the LBA48 kernel version ISO (as it's a 200Gb disk with that kernel) from here:

http://www.silicondust.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=990

When installing the cachecard it installed the module "turbonet.o"

Then, when booting I got the warning "Driver not loaded"

(Which now I've since found is actually due to it having no cache memory, rather than the real driver not loading. At that stage it's still a BIOS thing I guess, well before net.rc is executed.)

So I then manually changed the net.rc to run the module cachecard.o (Not totally stupid is it? To expect a cachecard to use the cachecard.o module!)

Anyway after seeing your config, I wasn't far out, so manually copied turbonet2.o into /lib/modules and then edited the rc.net file to load it.

Also I took the opportunity to rip 128Mb of memory out of my old PC here, which at least stops the "driver not loaded message", even if it isn't optimal. I don't have tons in Now Showing, nor £50 burning a hole in my pocket to by 512Mb at the moment!

It's working nicely now, so thanks again.

[Pete77]

Also I took the opportunity to rip 128Mb of memory out of my old PC here, which at least stops the "driver not loaded message", even if it isn't optimal. I don't have tons in Now Showing, nor £50 burning a hole in my pocket to by 512Mb at the moment!

It's working nicely now, so thanks again.

Even 128MB is supposed to cover 95%+ of the hits on the Tivo database. The difference between there and 512MB is only about 99% hits rather than 95%. You can check this in the kernel log file in Tivoweb.

So long as its a 168 Pin and PC133 or slower SDRAM DIMM of some kind your should be ok.

Didn't Andrew (the ebay Cachecard seller) send you the SiliconDust CD with the Cachecard. He did when I bought one from him 18 months ago.

[yungee]

Ah, ta, I'm glad I didn't go and buy 512Mb then!

Yes, Andrew did send a CD with the Cachecard, but I'm too big and clever to go down the simple path, preferring to make life difficult for myself! :D

[Pete77]

Ah, ta, I'm glad I didn't go and buy 512Mb then!:D

But then you could have got the other 4% of hits and all for only £30. ;) :p

My Tivo database is 517MB in size and the database size seems to vary between about 513MB and 520MB from what people have reported on here. You get told the database size by the Silicondust startup screen.

[yungee]

Gah, any chance someone could post the contents of their /etc/rc.d/rc.net file with a TURBONET card please? (The new version, not the one with the driver beginning ax*)

I was trying to update to more recent drivers due to the daily call problem (which a lot of people seem to be having over the last few days, so it doesn't seem ot be a driver issue)

All of the new Silicon Dust install programs are doing odd things on my Tivo for some reason.

[blindlemon]

If you have a cachecard then you need the cachecard driver, which is called (as you have noticed) "turbonet2.o".

[yungee]

I have a cachecard in one Tivo and a turbonet card in the other.

Sorry, I didn't make it all clear above that I'm jumping between both Tivo trying to sort out different things with the two of them.

Soo .... can anyone post the contents of a recent rc.net file for a turbonet card please? Many thanks in advance.