On Monday 21 April 2003 17:14, Adam Bower wrote:
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 06:12:16PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
The Processor is marked STPC Consumer, STPCC0166BTC3. At first I thought this was one of the ST Micro Consumer II Products (133Mhz 486 core, with some video on chip) But now I am not so sure. In fact I can't seem to find any reference to this chip so any help here would be gratefully received. (If it was a consumer II then that would be dandy as there is a bit of Linux stuff for that, XFree drivers etc)
typing STPCC0166BTC3 into google gives http://us.st.com/stonline/products/support/select/videqu4.htm and this links to a page suggesting is a "consumer" chip.
Adam
Thanks for that Adam, turns out that this is a 586 type core running at 66mhz now for some more info. I fancied a late night so popped over to the office and picked up an old Hub and some Cat5
First the good news
I've got the Netbox routing through my PC to my ADSL connection and it's all working very well. It's actually quite nice. There was a problem with google repeatedly refreshing but clicking on the update Netbox icon seemed to sort that.
A big supprise was that it plays mpeg audio streams from Shoutcast ! Pretty Impressive for a set top box I thought. (even more so considering the processor speed)
It's picking up mail from one of my accounts and as far as it's intended use goes it's working well.
Now the bad news
Hacking it is not going to be so easy.
A Nmap scan shows no ports within the ones that nmap scans, trying to telnet to the box results in a connection refused.
I noticed that /bin/sh was one of the files updated when I hit the update button but so far I have found no way of getting to it. The keyboard seems unresponsive during boot so I cannot interrupt the boot process which is a shame.
So a few questions for the group.
Does anybody know of a way to scan all 65535 ports on a host (yes I know this is going to take hours) But I am wondering if there is a useful service running on a non standard port (thinks of the Zaurus running it's ftp server on a strange port)
Any ideas about ways of killing the front end or otherwise getting to a shell prompt.
The other machine is next to useless at the moment. You have to insert a special smart card before the initial setup (I only have one between the two boxes) and inserting this card gives me a message saying that this card has already been used to initialise a Netbox and therefore cannot be used. I am thinking that the only way to save this box and make it do something is to build a IDE - disk on chip interface and carefully remove the M Systems device from the board and take a look at it's contents. Unless of course anyone out there has a better idea.
Wayne