http://tinyhack.com Tinyhack Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:30:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have prepared a firmware and tutorial to Install Debian here, this time without the need for serial port. I have tested this, and it seems that everything works. But of course I will not be responsible if anything happens. If you think there are some missing, unclear or inaccurate ... http://tinyhack.com/2008/07/30/installing-debian-on-agestar-without-serial-port/ My wife agrees that I can buy another Agestar to hack and use the other one for our network storage. With this new Agestar I can continue my hacks. Currently I am working on building a firmware that can be used to install Debian without serial port. On the first ... http://tinyhack.com/2008/07/21/new-firmware-progress/ I bought the  Eee PC 4G last week, but I haven't used it optimally. Today when trying to write a new blog post using Eee PC, I felt that the space key is very difficult to press. After searching around, I found out that many people experience the same ... http://tinyhack.com/2008/07/06/fixing-space-key-on-eee-pc/ I have switched my mind from doing the kernel porting to some other activities, which is reverse engineering ARM binaries for Symbian platform. When just starting, I thought to my self: why don't I try to reverse engineer the original Agestar firmware, and may be I can complete some drivers ... http://tinyhack.com/2008/07/06/reverse-engineering-linux-kernel-image-and-modules/ As listed on one of my previous posting, STAR 9100 (to be precise STAR 9104) is being used in these devices: Coolmax CN-570 http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/29899/75/1/3/ NS-348S http://www.multicase.de/en/products/76/ns348s.html http://www.enclosureservice.com/ Emprex NSD-100 http://www.emprex.com/02_products_02.php?id=205 Agestar NCB3AHT http://www.agestar.com/english/products/ncb3aht.asp http://shenztech.com/code/ui/product/product.aspx?prdid=NAS2&subcatid=9 revoltec rs049 ... http://tinyhack.com/2008/06/30/how-many-of-you-are-using-star-9100-based-nas/ I have spent many hours to work on the RTC part, and I decided to give up for now. I have been able to activate the clock, set the clock, and make it run. But the RTC is not useful. First, it is not battery backed, so when you turn ... http://tinyhack.com/2008/06/30/rtc-on-str9100/ It had been several months since my Sony Ericsson P990 stylus got stuck inside the casing. I was a little bit annoyed, since I can't put a new stylus in it, but didn't care too much because most of the time I just use my hand to select the ... http://tinyhack.com/2008/06/28/p990i-stylus-stuck/ Changing Macbook hard drive was very easy, and I thought changing Macbook Pro hard disk will also be easy. It turns out that I had to deal with 27 screws, some of them are Philips-head screw type, and some others are Torx screw type. Thankfully the guys at iFixit has ... http://tinyhack.com/2008/06/28/changing-macbook-pro-harddrive/ I was very tired lately because I have to do many other things beside hacking the agestar kernel. So when I have time this morning, I decided to work on the easiest part on my list: LED driver. Agestar NCB3AST only have one controllable led, inside the casing, so I ... http://tinyhack.com/2008/06/24/led-driver/ I ported STAR 9100 network driver without a documentation, I just blindly use the old driver and modify it to fit with all of the changes in the networking stuff since kernel 2.4.27. The driver claims to support scatter/gather I/O, but there is no implementation of scatter gather I/O in ... http://tinyhack.com/2008/06/22/network-driver-problem-solved/