[Gllug] odd hardware

[Sean Burlington]

Hi All,
	I used to be a homechoice subscriber untill they brought out a new 
windows only set top box - but when I cancelled my subscription I got to 
keep the old set top box

this is a box with ethernet, serial port, infra red remote, scart and tv 
out ...

it used to take a feed over ethernet and displays full screen video as 
well as providing a ppp connection to the internet...

opening it up reveals 16 Meg RAM a PowerPC processor (and a bunch of 
chips I don't recognise)

I've tried just connecting to my LAN hoping it would request an IP 
address via dhcp - but no joy.

I realise this is probably a waste of time but - does anyone know how I 
could go about connecting to this thing - it seems vaguelly possible 
that it could be made to run Linux ...?

-- 

Sean


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