On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:15:13PM -0500, James Knott wrote
Does it not even allow DHCP? If not then that is a really crappy piece of hardware.
No. I have an ancient HDHR-US model. Looking back at my archived emails, I figure that I got it sometime around June 2010. The output from "get help" is... Supported configuration options: /ir/target <protocol>://<ip>:<port> /lineup/location <countrycode>:<postcode> /sys/copyright /sys/debug /sys/features /sys/hwmodel /sys/model /sys/restart <resource> /sys/version /tuner<n>/channel <modulation>:<freq|ch> /tuner<n>/channelmap <channelmap> /tuner<n>/debug /tuner<n>/filter "0x<nnnn>-0x<nnnn> [...]" /tuner<n>/lockkey /tuner<n>/program <program number> /tuner<n>/streaminfo /tuner<n>/status /tuner<n>/target <ip>:<port> According to the manufacturer's site, the latest models support a lot more stuff, including... /sys/ipaddr dhcp|"<ip> <mask> <gw> <dns>" ... which allows to get/set ipaddress, or work as a dhcp client.
As mentioned, the setup you were running violates the IPv4 link local RFC, so I doubt iproute2 will ever support it.
Interesting. I'll keep going with over-riding the iproute2 default and force ifconfig, as the network-utility stack. By the time ifconfig support is deprecated in Gentoo, I'll probably be looking at getting a new tuner, rather than another NIC. Thanks for the info anyways. Now I can stop pounding my head against the brick wall. -- Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>