On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 06:16:14PM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > Besides acting like a Linux version of "Microsoft Bob", the > EZ-OS also has one user. You can't set up another user. That > is probably fixable; however, I just pulled the original drive > and put in my own, with a real distro. > > More as I learn about the machine. I will probably mount (but > not boot from) the EZ-OS drive on another machine, and see what > I can learn about the setup with that. If it has the AP mode > drivers in there, I will report back about that.
EZ-OS is a stripped-down Xandros, derived from KDE/Debian. Very sparse. Some kind of funny overlay thing going on; df shows /dev/sda1 mounted, but not the much larger /dev/sda2. What shows in / is fixed files from /dev/sda1 combined with changed files (and user files) that live in /dev/sda2. This is reminiscent of what jffs does on top of squashfs in OpenWRT, but I'm not sure how that is accomplished. /etc/apt connects to http://easysoftwareupdates.com/ebox/ , which shows very few files, mostly regionalization stuff. ASUS keeps this very simple, and there is not much that is usable in a more full-featured distro. No AP mode drivers. /lib/modules is very stripped down, with only the fixed internal hardware, and a few plausible usb device drivers (not very many!). I pulled the Azurewave AW-NE766 RT2790 PCIe mini card out of the WinXP box so I will be sure the machine is isolated from the net. The radio is available for fun and games. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
