From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JJvTW-0005W2-QL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:46:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89302E0410; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:46:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FB72E0410 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:46:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A86E465508 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:46:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.197 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.197 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.402, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id MPz+IayCHBQC for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:46:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD72665AE0 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:46:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JJvTG-0002Rq-O8 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:46:11 +0000 Received: from www.buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:46:10 +0000 Received: from wireless by www.buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:46:10 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: HP Library Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:46:02 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <479F63DA.5000302@xunil.at> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071210 SeaMonkey/1.1.7) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 958c720e-7207-42db-9db0-e19fefd65129 X-Archives-Hash: c824eabfd0921197eb66ca71a7127ee0 Stefan G. Weichinger xunil.at> writes: > Has anyone ever managed to upgrade a HP Surestore Library C7201NB with > Gentoo on the host? Nope. > The hp_ltt-tool is only available in binary form and for old OSs, but > nothing recent and for sure not for Gentoo. don't forget about possible running the old software on a gentoo box with wine/vmware or such emulators....(see /usr/portage/app-emulation/*) > The alternative, the Firmware-Upload via the Remote Management Card of > the library doesn't work because of some missing Java class which Google > and not even Sun knows about. > Any ideas? Well, if nobody gives you an explicit answers, here is an idea that may or maynot work. 1. What type of interface are we talking about (rs232 serial, ethernet parallel)? 2. Sniff the connection to see what's on the receiving end serial port ( app-misc/linuxspa it's masked but just download the sources and compile as it *works great*) ethernet (ethereal) parallel (??? never had to do this, but I'm sure I can hack an old parallel cable to talk to me) etc etc 3. Analyze the device and see what it's asking for 4. Find what it is looking for or just 'dope it' (er trial and error). Lots of work, but a lot of fun. The older the device the less protection and obscurity the firmware folks put into the product. 5. If you cannot find detailed information specific to this machine, just look for info on a similarly aged competitor (you'd be surprise how many machines of a similar venue have almost identical firmware). 6. If none of these work, open up the case and find a serial port, JTAG or such where you just might get lucky and get raw access to the embedded host processor, using step 2 or other similar techniques). good hunting, James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list