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So while my Alpha 400 limps along (base system not bootable due to NAND
overwrite; 2.6 kernel with very flaky WiFi on SD) I came across an "Easy PC"
"E700 Linux Series". It is of a format which should be very familiar to all
members of this list... one USB plus ethernet on back, two USB on side,
etcetera.
My searches lead me to believe that the Easy PC line was SoC/ARM based.
They had fixed file:/// in the browser, and indeed in general it seemed
to be pretty thoroughly nailed down.
But.
It turns out some dear soul in China left a telnetd in /etc/init.d/rcS.
Yes, after trying all sorts of devious means to try and jailbreak, I
telnet'ed to the machine, and logged in as root. No password, even. :->
"uname -a" and various fiddling about shows me that it is, in fact,
a MIPS based system, running a 2.6 kernel. It has Opie and TinyX,
and if you don't get adventurous with fonts, TinyX's xterm will run
once you've added it to the app menu.
There are /dev/tty{0..2}. I have been able to run getty on them, but
Ctl-Alt-FN does not seem to switch to any of them. Pity, since I mostly
just need a terminal. Does this mean the kernel was compiled without text
consoles? Or is there something I can tell the kernel to make it happen?
And that brings me to the one big thing missing: ssh. The libraries on this
box look pretty close to the blend of libraries in the SD card tarball
debian-etch-mipsel.tar.gz. Since the current kernel does everything I want
(WiFi plus WPA2 with wpa_supplicant) now, can somebody point me at the most
painless way to get a userland build environment so I can cross compile some
missing binaries?
Thanks much!
Andy Valencia
p.s. I got this through buynowmobi.com. My order was fulfilled directly
out of Hong Kong--grand total, $153.
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