Talk:SureWest IPTV

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Great article. This did the trick for me. I'm also on SureWest and using Gentoo. For my setup, I had already been using a serial IR Blaster over LIRC to change channels while using a PVR-150 to record over the SVID cable. So for now, I am still using the IR Blaster to change channels, have unplugged the PVR-150. In my settings I did not clone the MAC address. This allows me to switch over to the Amino box without messing with cables in case we want to use Video-On-Demand or listen to music channels.

The life saver for me are the IGMP settings under "/proc" I'd been searching for days on various multicast problems because I could see the packets with tcpdump, but no program would play or save the streams.

[Nate: Aug 8, 2008] In reply to Rkuris: DHCP is setting a 69.x.x.x address for me, but it doesn't seem to care. It's all working with the exact same thing you specified for "/etc/conf.d/net"


Thanks for your feedback! Glad to see it's working for you. I couldn't get it to work unless I spoofed the MAC address. It kept assigning me 65.x.x.x addresses and wouldn't connect.

--Rkuris 01:15, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

First step not working

I have a service provider with IPTV. So I've been wanting to use the mythTV network tuner for a while but can't get it to work. I am using ubuntu not gentoo. But I thought I accurately translated your steps to work with ubuntu. unfortunately I am having problems with the very first step.

To clone the MAC address I edited the '/etc/network/interfaces' file. I added "hwaddress ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx" under my eth0 NIC. After running "sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart; ifconfig" I see eth0 using the cloned MAC but I can't get any response from the DHCP server.

Any ideas?The goat 14:54, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

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