[TriLUG] hacking DTV hardware (was: "...DirecTV DSL Service)

[David R. Matusiak]

now *this* is something i'd like to hear a lot more about.  hopefully 
we can turn these old beasts into /something/.  looking fwd to your 
discoveries!
/drm

On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 03:39  PM, John Beimler wrote:

> begin  quotation from Kevin Sonney <alchemist at darkcanvas.com> [on 
> 030107 15:16]:
>
>> Dunno, but I'll gladly take it off your hands for a fair price if you
>> think it'll work with my parents' BellsouthDSL - replacing the
>> Windows-Only 3com card they got with their service.
>>
> Nope, its a proprietary piece of junk, won't work with anything except
> DirecTV's servers.  But I do hear that its a PowerPC box running *BSD 
> or
> Linux, so I do plan on opening mine when I have time and looking 
> around.
>
> Peace.
>
> john