more weird stuff - ChameLAN 100-s

From: technoid <technoid_at_cheta.net>
Date: Sun May 21 12:51:45 2000

Hi Joe!

I had a similar problem with my Sun machine. What I did was physically mount
the foreign drive on my clone running redhat. I knew what the solaris
filesystem was and so was able to instruct redhat to mount it (read only).
Then a friend in ClassicComp turned me on to a program called 'John the
Ripper'. I copied the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files to my clones' drive
and ran the program to crack the passwords. The root password was not
crackable but most others were. As the clock on my Sparcstation had a dead
batt, the dateas irrational for the user I logged on as as that user had not
yet been created.... This caused solaris to drop me to a root prompt at which
time I was able to change the root pw and have full system access in the proper
way with the proper date.

You need to gather intelligence on the system to determine which filesystem it
is running . Barring that you could randomly try various filesystems until you
hit the right one.

Sounds like a very cool box you bumped into! Keep me and all of us posted on
your progress. If you give some more details on the type of unix it runs,
someone on the list may be able to tell you which filesystem it is useing.

Best of luck!!


wrote:

> Here's something else that I picked up in a load of old computers last
> week. It's one of those oversize lunch box computers with the keyboard that
> folds up against one side and covers the screen. It has six ISA type card
> slots that lay horizontal in the main unit. There's also a piggy back unit
> that has three more ISA type slots that stand vertical. The logo on the
> keyboard says "Tekelec" and ChameLAN 100-S". After some work, I finally
> got it to boot. The first surprise was that the LCD screen is a backlit
> color screen. The next surprise is that it boots into some kind of UNIX. I
> never did see a name for the UNIX but it pops up a number of different
> copyright notices including one for DOLCH, Tekelec and the usual UNIX ones.
> I couldn't get past the login id/password prompt. Any suggestions about
> how to get around it?
>
> It has some strange cards in it including several that appear to be very
> fancy Ethernet cards and another that has four fiber-optic connectors. The
> three boards in the piggy back unit are physicaly bolted together and each
> one has a four pin power connector similar to a 5 1/4" disk drive. There
> is a cable that connects to a each of those power connectors and a power
> outlet on the motherboard. The external connectors on these boards are
> marked "Bypass Control", "TR1" and "TR2" and "AUX". One of the boards has a
> big IC that's marked AMD AM79C830GC on it. I haven't been able to find a
> refernece to this chip. One of the other boards has an AMD AM7984AJC/20 on
> it. I haven't found a reference to that one either. Does anyone know what
> they are?
>
> The main computer is a 32 Mhz 486 with 16 Mb of RAM. The hard drive is a
> type 11 245 Mb IDE drive and it has a 1/3 height 1.44 Mb floppy drive.
> There are also extra LED indicators on the front of the computer that are
> marked "Ring Op" "Pri" "Sec", Signal Detect" "A" "B" and "Active" "A" "B".
>
> Does anyone know what this machine is made for or anything else about it?
>
> Joe
Received on Sun May 21 2000 - 12:51:45 BST