Category Archives: Hardware

Everything related to physical devices/objects

MEDION BIOS settings

Some MEDION PCs have hidden BIOS settings. To get to them, get into the BIOS and press F11. If you’re asked for a password, try am8888egh or am8888egc. Maybe you can even omit the last letter. According to a MEDION employee, there are only 2 employees who know this password. Also it shouldn’t be leaked… Read More »

SIEMENS Gigaset

Service mode Hold keys 1, 4 and 7 while turning on the phone. You will see the display test. Service menu Power-on the phone into service mode and type 76200 (4000er series) or 46395 (2000er and 3000er series) to get to the service menu. There you can… Read More »

hp Laserjet IIIp

Endless feeding If the printer starts feeding a blank page between 2 printed pages or is endlessly feeding blank pages instead of printing something, you might have the problems mentioned in this forum. The printer has two coils in the paper cartridge which pull a metal sheet for recognizing the end of a sheet. There… Read More »

Nintendo Wii Encryption Keys

To use these keys with e.g. Segher’s Wii.git, you have to put them in binary files, i.e. use a Hex-Editor and paste these keys so that you get a 16 Byte long file for each key. Segher’s tools expect them to be located in ~/.wii/<keyname>, e.g. ~/.wii/common-key. common-key sd-key sd-iv md5-blanker

AudioMate Firmware

Download Details Looking at the firmware file, the header starts – as usual – at 0x00. It consists of the string UMDA! followed by the firmware revision in octets. For the v1.2.2.1 I found the bytes 01 02 02 01. After that are some bytes which might be a checksum. The line looks like this:… Read More »

Sphairon AR860

The AR860 is shipped by e.g. versatel – configured as a DSL modem. Admin accounts Firmware b2 IP 150.150.150.4 Login admin Password xad$l#12 (that’s a lower case “L”) Firmware b3 IP 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.254.254 Login admin Password Admin or xad$l#12 Convert to Router To switch from “Modem” mode to “Router” mode, there’s a nice manual… Read More »

Wii MPlayer and Samba

The MPlayer Christmas Edition for Wii supports SMB browsing. You can configure the login data of the desired SMB share through the smb.conf on the SD card as follows: For it to work, you MUST use a dedicated user in Samba. Guest shares won’t work. Also make sure you have security=user set in your Linux… Read More »

ID3 tagging & Album Art on the FUZE

The FUZE does not (since firmware 1.2.26/2.2.26) support ID3v2.4. But it does support ID3v2.3 and as it appears not only in ISO-8859-1 encoding but also in UTF-16. Genres The FUZE seems to understand only a few Genres by ID which are listed in the firmware file:Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Dance, Disco, Funk, Grunge, Hip-Hop, Jazz,… Read More »

SanDisk Sansa MTP mode

The Sansa differentiates between songs transferred via MTP mode and those transferred via MSC mode. The demo songs are all in the MTP area and thus you won’t see them when looking at the device in MSC mode. But it is possible, to mount the device in MTP mode also. You just have to install… Read More »

Rhythmbox and Sansa

To work with the FUSE in Rhythmbox, you have two choices: MTP mode or MSC mode. The MTP mode is the Media Transfer Protocol which the Windows Media Player uses. There’s a plugin for Rhythmbox which lets the player show up and you are able to manage the player from there. The MSC mode is… Read More »