Archive for the tag 'usb'

Howto repair a broken USB flash drive

This is not the first time, I break a USB Drive. And I already heard some people complaining about the same stuff. But how is this possible ? Even if I use it a lot, memory and micro-controller are robust you know, no special reason for a failure (except of course some anormal write, but […]

admin April 30th, 2008

Howto hack USB port on a LG LAC-M6500R MP3 Player (CD/Radio/MP3 Player)

Some friends buy me a nice MP3 player for my car last year (birthday): LAC-M6500R
This stuff looks great and you can even plug a hard-drive. The main issue is that the firmware only support 999 files on a single USB device, so that’s enougth for ~4Go of MP3 but not more. So I decided to […]

admin March 4th, 2007

Python powered Tux ?

Not really, but this nice Tux droid, can be pluged in USB, and the commands are sent via a Python DBUS binding. Hum a stupid question, can we use the Python USB API directly ?
With time, Python really became a powerfull tool for hardware hackers :) That’s perhaps why I like it so much ?

admin August 10th, 2006

Sagem Fast 800 on Linux (Debian)

This is quite easy, but the doc is too old.. so:

Download latest eagle-usb
Untar
make
make install
eagleconfig (to enter your config..)
rm /etc/init.d/eagle-usb (this doesn’t work on debian ..)
eaglectl -w (to load kernel modules and so on..)
startadsl

admin August 10th, 2004