Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:59:22 -0500 From: Chip Marshall <chip@eboai.org> To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netpliance Iopener Message-ID: <20000313205922.A37374@hindenburg.eboai.org> In-Reply-To: <200003132339.QAA40291@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 04:39:17PM -0700 References: <20000313182607.A36079@hindenburg.eboai.org> <200003132339.QAA40291@harmony.village.org>
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On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 04:39:17PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > You'll need some way to program the CF that sits in the slave IDE slot > of the primary IDE bus on the mobo. One can do this with a 2.5" IDE > drive with a custom cable. (you have to swap 1 and 2, 3 and 4, etc: I read on one of the sites that you can get it to give you a root shell during the boot sequence, and from that you can dial up your ISP of choice and grab an image that you can copy over the flash. But, you need to reboot it before QNX has a chance to update the flash. > And you'll need to use a USB Ethernet to talk to the network. That shouldn't be a problem, looks like 4.0 has support for all sorts of USB Ether devices :) > And you'll have to find one. There are none to be had in the Denver > area, for example. :-( A friend of mine is checking to see if you can still order them at Circuit City... -- Chip Marshall <chip@eboai.org> http://www.chocobo.cx/chip/ InterNIC handle - CLM21 PGP key available on my web page On IRC via EFnet as Magus -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCM/CS d+(-) s+:++ a--- C++(+++) UB++++ P+++>$ L- E--- W++ N+(++) o K? w O M+ V- PS PE Y? PGP++ t+@ 5 X(+) R>+ t+() b+>++ DI++++ D(-) G e>++ h!>++ r--- y ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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