Earlier this year I made an ebay purchase of 10 pogoplug mobiles that had been used by Smartenit - Making your world smarter and greener The units had what appeared to be a wifi antenna added just above the reset button. These had been modified to run some type of management system and I hadn't been able to figure out how to crack access to the simple web page it hosted, so I set aside until yesterday. I opened one up and what I thought was wifi appears to be a Srvrbee Zigbee X10 Gateway hanging off the serial port. Which means they already have a nice plug soldered to the serial port that matches the serial port on the PogoPlug E02. Unfortunately the Linux installed on them is using the serial port to run the Zigbee gateway, so I wasn't able to get access to a root prompt, but I can break into u-boot. Following is a log of output from serial:
The noise at the end is my attempts to use Ctrl-Break and other serial input to get console access. Since I have easy access to the serial port I will be using kwboot to update uboot on these units and then boot Debian from USB. I'll then explore the installed software to see if I can locate the driver or whatever is necessary to access the ZigBee X10 Gateway.
I will have 6 of these units w/o power supply available to regular forum posters for the cost of shipping from Zip Code 30144 in the USA. PM me if interested.
Ray
U-Boot 1.1.4 (Oct 1 2011 - 12:21:35) Cloud Engines 1.1.2 (3.4.27) PHYADDR=0 U-Boot code: 00600000 -> 0067FFF0 BSS: -> 006918B4 Soc: 88F6192 A1 (DDR2) CPU running @ 1000Mhz L2 running @ 500Mhz SysClock = 250Mhz , TClock = 166Mhz DRAM CAS Latency = 3 tRP = 3 tRAS = 8 tRCD=3 DRAM CS[0] base 0x00000000 size 128MB DRAM Total size 128MB 16bit width Addresses 8M - 0M are saved for the U-Boot usage. Mem malloc Initialization (8M - 7M): Done NAND:128 MB Flash: 0 kB CPU : Marvell Feroceon (Rev 1) CLOUD ENGINES BOARD: PPV4A1 Streaming disabled Write allocate disabled USB 0: host mode PEX 0: interface detected no Link. Net: egiga0 [PRIME] Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 Loading from NAND 128MB 3,3V 8-bit, offset 0x200000 Image Name: Linux-3.3.8 Created: 2013-10-23 18:11:35 UTC Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) Data Size: 1072368 Bytes = 1 MB Load Address: 00008000 Entry Point: 00008000 ## Booting image at 00800000 ... Image Name: Linux-3.3.8 Created: 2013-10-23 18:11:35 UTC Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) Data Size: 1072368 Bytes = 1 MB Load Address: 00008000 Entry Point: 00008000 Verifying Checksum ... OK OK Starting kernel ... Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel. ^B^@^@^@<FF>^B^@^@^@<FF>Native drive probe not handled yet Native drive probe not handled yet Native drive probe not handled yet Native drive probe not handled yet Native drive probe not handled yet ^B^@^@^@<FF>^B^@^A^A^@<FF>^B^@^E^C^@^@^@<FF>^B^@^@^@<FF>^B^@^@^@<FF>^B^@^@^@<FF>^B^@^E^C^@^@^@<FF>^B^@^@^@<FF>^B^@^@^@<FF>
The noise at the end is my attempts to use Ctrl-Break and other serial input to get console access. Since I have easy access to the serial port I will be using kwboot to update uboot on these units and then boot Debian from USB. I'll then explore the installed software to see if I can locate the driver or whatever is necessary to access the ZigBee X10 Gateway.
I will have 6 of these units w/o power supply available to regular forum posters for the cost of shipping from Zip Code 30144 in the USA. PM me if interested.
Ray