asterisk users - Aug 2005 - motorola vt1000 games

For those that are interested in the vt1000 paper I wrote a while back,
I have it now on my webpage, at
http://www.0xdecafbad.com/Unlocking-Motorola-VT1000.html

Some of the information there was posted elsewhere, some wasnt.
basically the unit runs vxworks, and it needs a docsis like server to
reconfigure properly (its different from the cable modem docsis stuff
mot does) but ...

I think most if not all the hardware is supported in linux, I didnt
really check just glanced at the chips, it may be possible to reflash
the unit with an embedded linux version and run a very stripped down
asterisk implementation, thus making the units more valuable, and since
there are many in surplus now with no large provider supporting them
anymore, you may be able to get em really cheap (I believe ebay has some
for cheap).

There is support to reflash without difficulty, providing you use the
vxworks boot loader, there is a connector that may be jtag which would
let you more easily reflash without doing dev work under vxworks to
write a loader app on the unit.  Again this is stuff I didnt really look
into.  Downside is that JTAG is slow so you prolly wouldnt want to
reflash the whole thing via JTAG but just enough to get to the serial
port and read the rest of the data that way.  




-- 
Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com     Bret McDanel
UK +44 870 340 4605   Germany +49 801 777 555 3402
US +1 360 207 0479 or +1 516 687 5200
FreeWorldDialup: 635378
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url :
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050826/20758192/attachment.pgp