[geeks] hacking the hammer myshare storage unit

[Phil Brutsche]

Debian ARM chroot?

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Does anyone have any idea how I might get a compiler for the Hammer
> Myshare storage unit, or a cross compiler for it to run on X86 Linux?
> 
> It uses a Marvell ARM9 CPU, and so far I'm not having much luck finding
> binaries or a compiler for it.
> 
> I asked the company about getting ssh and things for the unit, but they
> said "we will not allow the customer to access the unit".
> 
> I find that hilarious, since I got telnet root in about 10 minutes on
> the box, and I think the djini is out of the bottle on these small
> embedded systems.
> 
> However, the Hammer is newer than the other units, so it doesn't have
> much of a hacker following yet.
> 
> I want to build software for it to add a couple of features I need.
> 
> Any ideas appreciated.
> 
> I hope to go through its OS and dig out all of the details on its
> kernel, library revisions, etc, sometimes this week or weekend.

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Phil Brutsche
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