From owner-freebsd-small Tue Apr 11 10:51:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from loki.dyn.ez-ip.net (h24-66-207-153.xx.wave.shaw.ca [24.66.207.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50AA337B96A for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:51:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neo@loki.dyn.ez-ip.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by loki.dyn.ez-ip.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA01767; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:50:37 -0600 From: dreamwvr Reply-To: dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com Organization: dreamwvr.com To: chip@chocobo.cx, Chip Marshall , "Peter C. Wallace" Subject: Re: Netpliance Iopener Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:48:11 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200004111705.KAA06084@freeway.dcfinc.com> <20000411133625.A65032@setzer.chocobo.cx> In-Reply-To: <20000411133625.A65032@setzer.chocobo.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0004111150370S.00719@loki.dyn.ez-ip.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi all, > I've been doing some reading about the new ones. Near as anyone can > tell, there is the new BIOS version, which disallows booting from > anything other than the SanDisk, and has been epoxied to the MB. Also, > rumour has it that 4 of the IDE pins have been snipped off, but they > are just the power pins, so it's not a big deal. > You can purchase a new (old) BIOS chip from www.badflash.com for about > $20USD. that is good news! > There has also been a rumor that the new BIOS won't let you boot if > the OS on the SanDisk is not QNX, but I don't know if there is any > truth behind it. A friend of mine got his I-Opener yesterday, and is > attempting to pu NetBSD on the flash, so we will soon find out. read something like that is what they are doing which is bad karma IMHO:-)) well 'if' the manufacturer is found then most liely they would sell the unscrewedup version.. if they are not in a exclusive arrangement but somehow i doubt it.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message