[MLB-WIRELESS] Minitar specs

[ml.melbwireless at iq.ro]

Hi Jamie, list,

Here's a quick'n dirty script to cut and unpack the Minitar AP upgrade.

#!/bin/bash
#-- START

wget http://www.minitar.com/downloads/MIN2APB_2.20.zip
unzip -jo MIN2APB_2.20.zip

dd if=general-ap_upg_2.20.bin bs=1 skip=12 count=$((0x18000)) | \
  zcat ->webpages-ap.bin

dd if=general-ap_upg_2.20.bin bs=1 skip=$((12+0x18000)) | \
  zcat ->vmlinux_img

dd if=vmlinux_img bs=1 count=$((0x166000)) >kcoff
dd if=vmlinux_img bs=1 skip=$((0x166000)) |zcat ->tmpimg.img
rm -f vmlinux_img
#-- END

You will get 3 files: webpages-ap.bin (the web pages), kcoff (the kernel 
binary, probably in ECOFF format) and tmpimg.img (the initrd). 

Mount the ramdisk loop and have fun:
mount -t ext2 -o loop tmpimg.img /mnt/floppy -o ro,nodev,nosuid,noexec

Happy hacking.

-- 
All the best,
Mihnea

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Jamie Lovick wrote:

> > Well I pulled apart what I could of that firmware on their website,
> > it doesn't seem to contain a kernel or anything, just gif images and
> > html pages.  The file that contains those things is gzipped within
> > the .bin file that Minitar have available on their web page.
> 
> Has anyone got the ability to de-compile the Minitar firmware file?


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