Hopefully this will be of interest to others. I did a bit more troubleshooting.
*First test:* I reinstalled SageTV and stopped MythTV backend. I left my Netgear router as the only DHCP server. Then I plugged in the "non working" rev D MediaMVP. It went through the usual steps (checking network, contacting dhcp, contacting mediamvp server), but then, to my surprise, it indicated that it was loading the application. I expected to see SageTV start up. I was even more surprised when mvpmc started. My tftp server was still running but I didn't expect it to serve a dongle to an IP address in the range given by my Netgear router. Somehow SageTV's backend gave this device something it needed that my other setup wasn't giving it. It loaded the dongle from my existing tftp server with no changes to any config and it got an IP address from my Netgear router. So what would SageTV's backend have given it (since it wasn't an IP address or a dongle file)? *Next test:* turned off SageTV & DHCP on Netgear router (and verified it was not serving IP addresses to DHCP clients) configured my dhcp server carefully by using all the notes in this thread. plugged MediaMVP rev D back in and it will not boot. Apparently it still needs something else. Apparently, the *lesson* from all this is that a MediaMVP from SageTV is a bit different. Anyone disagree? And apparently when I had this device booting previously, a SageTV server must have been running somewhere on my network. I'm guessing it only got killed by a reboot, and that must have happened at about the same time I made my edits to /etc/udhcpc.config (and which I mistakenly thought were possibly responsible for this whole issue). Is there a way to get this MediaMVP to work with mvpmc (given that I have done all the usual required steps)? On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Tom Metro > <[email protected]<tmetro%[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> Dave wrote: >> >>> ...it looks like the problem is dhcp related. >>> >> >> Agreed. >> >> >> >> Here's the logs: >>> >>> Dec 6 21:47:00 myMythBE dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:0d:fe:00:xx:xx via >>> eth0 Dec 6 21:47:00 myMythBE dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.2.203 to >>> 00:0d:fe:00:xx:xx via eth0 >>> Dec 6 21:47:18 myMythBE dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from >>> 00:0d:fe:00:xx:xx via eth0 Dec 6 21:47:18 myMythBE dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on >>> 192.168.2.203 to 00:0d:fe:00:xx:xx via eth0 >>> >>> >> >> It appears to be cycling between discover/offer, and never completing the >> DHCP transaction. >> >> A normal DHCP transaction involves the exchange of 4 packets: >> 1. Client sends a discover broadcast. >> 2. Any listening DHCP servers send back an offer packet. >> 3. The client picks an offer it likes, and responds to a specific DHCP >> server. >> 4. That DHCP server sends back an acknowledgment, which contains basically >> the same info as in the offer. >> >> Thanks for the explanation. > > >> (Check the list archives for log transcripts of a full successful >> exchange. A successful mvpmc boot will have two sets, as it also requests an >> IP via DHCP as part of its startup process.) >> > > I see an example of a good dhcp transaction with my Rev H MediaMVP (on the > same dhcp server). > >> >> The latter two packets don't appear to be showing up in your log. That >> seems to suggests that the MVP's bootloader firmware either doesn't like the >> offer, or it is accepting another DHCP server's offer, failing to find the >> dongle where expected, and restarting the boot sequence. >> >> You did turn off DHCP in your Netgear router, right? >> > > Yes, but the Netgear router is still on my network (has to be, of course). > I wonder if it still functions as a dhcp server even after the setting is > turned off in the admin tool? (Next I'll try a reboot after changing that > router setting.) > >> >> -Tom >> >> >
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