[ale] Zapmedia Zapstation

[Brian Pitts]

Michael Hirsch wrote:
> On 8/29/07, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
>> I thought I'd post a follow-up on about the Zapstation. I was able to
>> put the BIOS chip in an Asus motherboard of the same generation and
>> flash it. I had to use Asus's special flashing utility; Uniflash saw it
>> as read-only. After flashing I could see at the POST screen that the RAM
>> was registering as only 32mb! I put in a 128mb PC-100 stick and booted
>> SystemRescueCD. Everything looked good except the locked hard drive. I
>> rebooted into freedos, burned a cd with qunlock, and unlocked the hard
>> drive. Now the Zapstation's linux OS loads and I'm able to navigate
>> through the functions using the front-panel buttons. Sadly my usb
>> keyboard doesn't work.
> 
> There are two solutions for that.  First, as Jim said, try the "enable
> legacy keyboard support" in the BIOS.  Second, rebuild the kernel with
> USB.  The USB port sould work, but the USB keyboard module is not
> included on the device.

I've enabled that in the BIOS so I have USB keyboard support when not 
using the original Zapstation OS, which is what I've decided to do. I 
currently have mythbuntu installed on a 160GB hard drive and have added 
a PCI wireless card. Even without a tv tuner, mythtv is a great frontend 
for media playback/ripping, game playing, etc. I'm using a Logitech 
wireless keyboard, but I have found an original Zapstation IR keyboard.

http://polibyte.com/wiki/Zapstation

-Brian