[mythtv-users] Using mythtv as a plain VCR with xmltv but no broadband connection to internet

[John Kuhn]

if you have some old hadware around you might want to look into making a 
router via coyote linux

http://www.coyotelinux.com/products.php?Product=coyote

all it needs is a floppy.. then you can share the dial up with other 
computers also..

--John

Jimmy Larsson wrote:

> Sounds good. I guess there are plenty of PPP-howotos for Linux out 
> there, so I am not at all worried about that part. ;)
>
> So, will I have any problem if I get a box with an internal vanilla 
> PCI-modem that costs almost nothing as is probably unlabeled?
>
> (I know this is out of scope for this mailing-list. I hereby give 
> myself an official of-topic-warning and promise not to do it again. :-) )
>
> /Jimmy
>
> Daniel Savard wrote:
>
>> Le jeu 12/08/2004 à 08:11, Jimmy Larsson a écrit :
>>  
>>
>>> Too bad, I have no DVB.
>>>
>>> I am just so focused by the feature to be able to tell the "VCR" to 
>>> "always record This Serie and That Program and That Show, no matter 
>>> on which channel and what time".
>>>
>>> Besides from the feature above I will use the mythtv-box as 
>>> MP3-player and DVD-player. The only "online-feature" I really MUST 
>>> have is to get the program table automatically into the box. That is 
>>> easy with a static internet-connection, but as long as I live on the 
>>> countryside I have to stick to my old modem. :/
>>>
>>>   
>>
>>
>>
>> You can setup your box with the modem to automatically call your
>> provider when a packet is routed on the ppp0 interface using the
>> on-demand feature of pppd. You have to setup also the idle time before
>> closing the connection. It is working fine for more than three years for
>> my home network. I have a old linux box acting as a router with the
>> modem for outside connections, a wireless card for the wireless network,
>> a ethernet interface for the wired network and it is running pppd in the
>> on-demand mode (the interface is created and useable for routing even if
>> the connection is not actually made with the ISP) and dhcpd to provide
>> dynamically addresses to new hosts.
>>
>>  
>>
>
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