Mr O, Depending on the version of the device. You can flash the BIOS or even replace the BIOS if you can get all the glue / sticky crap off the board. The way I did this was by using a normal keyboard. You have to hold down esc shit alt or alt esc or was it esc delete. I can't remember right this second. Then when I got into the bios I was able to boot off the dd image I made to the laptop hard drive I installed. I did buy a custom IDE cable that was wired for the correct ports. It was a fun little project and I even took the device to three or more conferences. I used it for a machine that I could hook up to a non-trusted network and be able to sniff track all of the nasty crap going over the network. The other plus is I could reformat the machine and not worry about the information on it. Bring to Euglug and I can go over it with you. I can't find my power supply right now for mine. I also need to reinstall the OS on the hard drive for it. I need to stick Linux back on the machine or BeOS or something else.
-Miller On 2/6/07, Mr O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How did you go about hacking your i-Opener? I've seen the option for the replacement BIOS. I'd like to flash mine and run either QNX or Linux on there. Looking for a simple interface for MisterHouse or some other project some time. I think mine is a newer revision as the CPU is a Cyrix 266 IIRC. I have not been successful in getting a terminal open or getting into the BIOS. --- Michael Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob, > > I'm not really surprised by this. I was helping some one hook > up > there new Sony TV last night as well. I showed him the > service door. > The person I was helping out asked me what that was for and I > explained to him his T.V. had firmware that Sony may upgrade > if there > is ever a problem with software on the T.V. I have also seen > the > Linux Kernel boot up on Cisco Wireless controllers ( aka > Airspace > 802.11 a/b/g ) Brocade 32 port Fibre Channel switches and > other > devices. I even have a I-Opener that was running QNX at one > point in > it's life time. There are other devices that run Linux or > some other > Unix like OS. See http://www.gpl-violations.org/ so you don't > give > money to the wrong people. You can avoid non-compliant > company's this > way as well. > > Michael Miller > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367 _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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