Turbonet connection problem - card light flashes

[davidshack]

Have an (oldepg) 300Gb TiVo with a Turbonet card.

Plse tell me - does a Turbonet card use its green network light to "flash" faults/fault codes?

Am now unable to access or ping the TiVo (plse see below) & have noticed that the green light on the Turbonet card is flashing on and off - about three seconds on, three seconds off, repeated several times, then steady on for 6-10 secs.
Given that I can't access the TiVo I guess this is not just indicating normal network activity?

Also plse how can I check the boot sequence includes the instruction to start/use Turbonet? I can run NIC_Config (with the drive hung off a PC) to check/reset IP & gateway stored on TiVo, so I guess the correct /var/hack whatever is still there. As I can't access/ping the TiVo I wonder if somehow boot is not looking for Turbonet (or is somehow pointed to a wrong driver such as Cachecard).

TiVo records & plays programmes fine, so the drive is functional at that level.

This TiVo was in store for a while, recently put back to use. Initially I thought router settings might not match those in NIC_Config. But can't connect whatever IP & gateway I put in.
Nor can SoftPerfect's network scanner find the tiVo.

All thoughts much appreciated.

[millsb]

With my TurboNZet card the green light is on continuously. It only goes off if I unplug the cable. The yellow light is usually on, but seems to flash when data is being transmitted/received.

How the boot sequence works depends on where you got the turbonet upgrade from, but a common approach in pre-AltEPG UK tivos is as follows:

The main startup script /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit runs a network config script, /etc/rc.d/rc.net. This latter script is created when you run nic_config_tivo, and contains instructions to load the necessary driver and configure the network. The turbonet driver is normally /lib/modules/turbonet.o, but some older turbonet installs used /lib/modules/ax88796.o. If tivo tries to install the wrong driver for your card there will be an error message in /var/log/kernel.

[davidshack]

Thanks, millsb, I appreciate the info.