[1890] in linux-net channel archive
reverse engineering (was jumperless Ethernet)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kai Schulte)
Sat Feb 10 08:42:57 1996
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 13:07:32 +0100 (MEZ)
From: Kai Schulte <sp0005@aixrs1.hrz.uni-essen.de>
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9602082330.AA00480@keep.in-berlin.de>
To: ;@unlisted-recipients (no To-header on input)
On Fri, 9 Feb 1996, Wolfgang Jung wrote:
> You might try reengineering the setup software (But some vendors tell you
> you are not allowed to)
> Creative Labs does this :-(
How can anybody prove you've reverse-engineered a certain piece of software?
Especially in a case like this, you could just as well have found the
register and the data you have to send by systematic probing. If the
card tends to hang on many of the write attempts, you could just
hard-reset it every time by having your program interrupt the power.
(2 transistors and a spare DTR line or the like will probably do the job.)
Next, you'll probably have to sign nondisclosure agreements just for buying
hardware...
<sigh> Kai
