Searching around on eBay I came across a $12 very peculiar item mis-categorized in the industrial PLC section... and doing some digging in the forum search, doesn't seem like anyone has talked about this device before, so here we go:
It seems to be made by Universal Scientific Industrial Co., as in the same USI that is the OEM of the Kace M300 that Dell contracted from them with no expense spared in terms of build quality. Inside, the specs seem to be the usual assortment: a Kirkwood at 2GHz (probably another Armada), 512MB of DDR3, 512MB of flash with a 512K secondary flash for uboot, USB2 x1, and SATA2 x1 for a single 2.5" drive.
But wait, there's more! To top it all off... WiFi. the thing has an SDIO-connected Marvell N150 chipset inside so says TechInfoDepot Wiki. The ebay listing also seems to immediately show off the docs that come with it and immediately it shows off the uboot flash partitions and such. Considering these aren't Tonido branded, I'm assuming this is going to be a basic Debian install on the flash drive included.The wiki also lists the root password for the device's stock OS being: "nosoup4u".
No soup for you! You come back in one year! NEXT!
Here's also the web archive page for the product direct from USI Shanghai's site circa 2015.
I've found a boot log from someone in 2012 that accessed it via serial here. And at that, considering there's already a dtb file for it with the bodhi kernels, I'm guessing running modern Debian on it might be a piece of cake. Might be. as in, definitely a Method B first-boot to start and see what breaks...! Aside from that, even more special, is that it seems, for all intents and purposes, the mainline Debian kernel 100% supports this device, or so says the sparsely-updated Debian Wiki.
Questioning if I should pick one up... seeing as the M300 outdoes it in the RAM department probably not, but it's yet another device with a 2GHz Kirkwood and knowing it's at least in some part related to the M300 gives me some hope.
There's no pictures of the inside of one of these things so I think this ebay listing is a lucky find for anyone that wants to go and grab one and do the honors while I fight off the inner demon telling me to spend all of my money on hackable devices... :D
Attached are images from the ebay listing for future clarity, as it won't be up forever.
It seems to be made by Universal Scientific Industrial Co., as in the same USI that is the OEM of the Kace M300 that Dell contracted from them with no expense spared in terms of build quality. Inside, the specs seem to be the usual assortment: a Kirkwood at 2GHz (probably another Armada), 512MB of DDR3, 512MB of flash with a 512K secondary flash for uboot, USB2 x1, and SATA2 x1 for a single 2.5" drive.
But wait, there's more! To top it all off... WiFi. the thing has an SDIO-connected Marvell N150 chipset inside so says TechInfoDepot Wiki. The ebay listing also seems to immediately show off the docs that come with it and immediately it shows off the uboot flash partitions and such. Considering these aren't Tonido branded, I'm assuming this is going to be a basic Debian install on the flash drive included.The wiki also lists the root password for the device's stock OS being: "nosoup4u".
No soup for you! You come back in one year! NEXT!
Here's also the web archive page for the product direct from USI Shanghai's site circa 2015.
I've found a boot log from someone in 2012 that accessed it via serial here. And at that, considering there's already a dtb file for it with the bodhi kernels, I'm guessing running modern Debian on it might be a piece of cake. Might be. as in, definitely a Method B first-boot to start and see what breaks...! Aside from that, even more special, is that it seems, for all intents and purposes, the mainline Debian kernel 100% supports this device, or so says the sparsely-updated Debian Wiki.
Questioning if I should pick one up... seeing as the M300 outdoes it in the RAM department probably not, but it's yet another device with a 2GHz Kirkwood and knowing it's at least in some part related to the M300 gives me some hope.
There's no pictures of the inside of one of these things so I think this ebay listing is a lucky find for anyone that wants to go and grab one and do the honors while I fight off the inner demon telling me to spend all of my money on hackable devices... :D
Attached are images from the ebay listing for future clarity, as it won't be up forever.