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I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) Lord_vader Profile Are there any I-Hackers in Northern Illinois or southern Wisc? Would be nice for BIOS flashes... 04-11-2000 18:45:59

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) anon Do you have yours Vader? If so where'd you get it from? Having no luck through any channels in this area... 04-11-2000 21:57:38

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) WyldChyld I got mine direct from NP about a month ago. Still trying to find a cable. I might just have to break down and buy one of those IMOD kits or get a premade cable from someone. I ordered mine about a week after the initial ariticle on a Sunday and had it by the following Monday. 04-12-2000 08:14:58

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) WyldChyld I got mine direct from NP about a month ago. Still trying to find a cable. I might just have to break down and buy one of those IMOD kits or get a premade cable from someone. I ordered mine about a week after the initial ariticle on a Sunday and had it by the following Monday. 04-12-2000 08:26:09

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) WyldChyld I got mine direct from NP about a month ago. Still trying to find a cable. I might just have to break down and buy one of those IMOD kits or get a premade cable from someone. I ordered mine about a week after the initial ariticle on a Sunday and had it by the following Monday. 04-12-2000 08:26:26

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) Chrisedge I ordered 2 cables from wizztronics (too many ZZZ??) A little $$ but worked great and prompt shipping. 04-12-2000 09:32:51

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) doug I'm in the Rockford, IL area but don't have the ability to flash a BIOS. I wish I did because I just trashed my IO by tring some of the commands that worked on the old BIOS version. I'll go pick up another IO today, they are plentiful around here. 04-12-2000 09:51:41

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) CheapEngineer Plentiful where? is there a local Circus City with ones in stock? -Downstate 04-12-2000 11:04:42

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) shadow Naperville, CompUSA had 8. I got 1, but still waiting for bios from badflash. Ordered the parts to make my own cables, hopefully will be here soon. 04-12-2000 11:11:18

Re:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) Lord_vader Profile Yes, I got two yesterday from the C.USA in Highlad Park. I have not ordered cables or HDD yet. Still trying to figure out a method to flash the BIOS. My I-Openers were 3/23/00 and had NO cut pins. The Store got 9 and sold them in 5 hours. 04-12-2000 14:28:02

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) Monty Wicker Park. Placed my order by my parents back in Indiana (28th in line in Chicago store vs. #3 spot there... figured odds were better). Still waiting. 04-12-2000 14:36:26

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) Monty oops... ordered on 3/20. 04-12-2000 14:37:55

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) John I ordered mine from the CC in highland park, but it still hasn't come in. 04-12-2000 14:45:53

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) tanker Gurnee area and lookin for a Flash! :) I have a BH6 but no old bios file. If anyone is the area and has the file, LMK! 04-12-2000 18:37:39

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) VivianC Ok, who got the 4 I-Openers in the Skokie store while I was driving there? The sales guy told me they walked out in the last 20 minutes. I know the kids there and they wouldn't jive me. Viv 04-12-2000 19:57:51

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) preachermark Profile Great...I was thinking of an early run to Skokie in the morning to pick up ONE! The wait continues...... 04-12-2000 20:46:58

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) Snickers Profile | Email I'm in Evanston and have the old bios ready to flash. Three chips that need flashing 04-13-2000 12:37:06

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) Lord_vader Profile TANKER!!! I am in Gurnee and I have the OLD bios file!! I still need mine flashed... Let Me know. I'm Lord_vader@hotmail.com Thanks! 04-13-2000 15:34:57

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) time Tanker, Lord_Vader, glad to see you around! I'm from Waukegan, and I would GREATLY appreciate any help available. However, I haven't received my 3/21 order, so I am no help yet. (Nor can I be helped ;) Please post when you get yours in, Thanks! -time 04-13-2000 21:39:07

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) Lord_vader Profile Time, Ive got mine. I picked up 2 from CompUSA on the 11th. Let me know when you get yours, and if you'll need help with a BIOS flash. 04-14-2000 06:06:44

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) Shadow I've flashed mine in the BH6. Cable parts due in about 2 days. Will have enough parts for 2 extra cables. One guy on IRC said he was interested in one.. so I'll have another available. Once I have the cables, I can help people do their flashes also.(Don't like hot swapping from the desktop ;) tight space). Live near naperville, work in rosemont. I'll post back when I have the cables and can help people flash. 04-14-2000 13:27:23

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) Dean Martin Shadow: Let me know when you can help with a flash. I live in Naperville. E-mail me dmartin11@hotmail.com. Thanks. 04-15-2000 12:37:06

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) SGer Lord_vader & Tanker, Did the two of you hook up yet? I'm in the Antioch area and would like to find someone who can flash my IO bios chip. I'm waiting on BADFLASH, but I'm afraid it may take another week or two before he gets his chips in... 04-15-2000 15:49:45

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) preachermark Profile I haven't actually got it in my hands yet. My mother-in-law picked it up down there. Hopefully will have it this next week and would like to get this thing flashed. I have a BH6 BIOS chip on a (reportedly) bad board. Unsure about the board or chip as the one who gave it to me didn't test it extensively. He was itching to upgrade and some 'behavior' problems gave him the excuse to pull it. I'm in the Kankakee area, but would mind a drive to get the IO operational. 04-15-2000 16:35:49

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) preachermark Profile Since I can't modify the pervious message to insert my sig, I'll let this message suffice. :) 04-15-2000 16:37:21

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) preachermark Profile ...that is: I WOULDN'T mind a drive... and it was a PREVIOUS message. Really....I'm NOT illiterate! :) 04-15-2000 16:40:59

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) Lord_vader Profile SGer I have not heard from Tanker, and I'm still looking for a flash. I might have one begining of next week, but its still up in the air... 04-15-2000 21:35:27

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) Dean Martin Does ANYONE have a working bios in the Chicago area that can flash mine? I don't mind a drive... dmartin11@hotmail.com 04-16-2000 11:13:01

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) Lord_vader Profile I just ordered a BH6... I guess I'll have it in about a week. I'll post the results. Lord Vader P.S. Any body want to buy a BH6 cheap? :) 04-16-2000 15:05:51

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) m0nk Profile i just picked up an i-opener from the skokie store this past saturday (4/15) morning. they appeared to be all out... i was all set to place an order for one, when the guy behind the counter said he was going to buy one (and stashed it in the back room), but wouldn't mind letting me have it :) nevertheless ... anyone in the area got theirs working yet? 04-16-2000 21:05:31

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) time if it's any help to anyone, I have an extra 3 feet of 44-pin ribbon cable and two ends for anyone who needs them. I figure if we hook up to burn BIOS'es, we could exchange resources ;) just a thought -time 04-17-2000 16:38:13

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) WB8NBS/9 I have an older (no hack problem) unit from CC, delivered 3 weeks ago after a two week back order interval. Interestingly I just got a letter from Netpliance today demanding I comply with the $499 penalty TOS. I have the unit working and back in it's case. It has been frustrating. I bought a 4.3 gig hard drive at the Dupage Fairgrounds show 3 weeks ago and it had tons of errors on the top 2 gigs. I sent it back to Fujitsu for a Warrenty replacement. I also had the $35 cable kit on order from CodeMan & it arrived last week. I got the machine booting into Windows 98 lite with a old 340 meg drive from an Compaq laptop but it was way too big to fit in the case. Last Sunday I got a 810 meg Toshiba drive 12 mm at a Computer show in Orland Park, loaded Redhat 6.2 by plugging the bare drive into a IBM 600E laptop from work. There was a lot of coughing and sputtering from Kudzu after I booted it in the Iopener but it came up fine and the XF86Config from Codeman works fine. The drive fits just barely. I can get the case back together but there is interference with a capacitor rubbing against the hard drive circuit board. I squeezed it back together anyway after cutting away the RF sheild around the hard drive and grinding down the desk stand mounting screws. I have a small Zenith laptop external keyboard on the unit and am experimenting with a touch pad. If I can get that to work it will have a *very* small footprint and might even be useable as a laptop with the stand removed. I bid on a parallel port Ethernet adaptor on Ebay - got it but Linux does not see it at all. Circuit City had the Netgear EA101c USB/Ethernet adaptor for $20 after rebate so I got one of those & hope it can get it working with the experimental kernel and Kawasaki drivers that are out there. Without Ethernet the Iopener is pretty much a toy. I really want to use it as an Xterm from my main computer. -- Jim Harvey, Naperville, Ill. Amiga person - Linux person - WB8NBS/9 This message came from Netscape running on a LINUX machine! He who dies with the most software wins. 04-17-2000 21:17:22

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) Shadow Time/Dean Martin: I recieved my connectors and cable from jameco, but the cable isn't 1mm. I have raw cable on order from a local place, and actual laptop cables on order from Texas. Several days out I suspect. Time: if you need a bios flash, email me and I can help, all I need is a little cable for the IO. Dean Martin: you've been waiting awhile :(, I did recieve my plcc puller, so I'm less worried about hot flashing in my bh6. If you want to stop by.. I'll flash yours as well. mlingk@enteract (dt) com 04-18-2000 08:21:47

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) Gorgeous+George Is there anyone near Roselle/Schaumburg who is willing to flash my Bios? I have extra stuff to make 2 cables if anyone needs them. 04-18-2000 20:05:58

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) Shadow A bios flasher is working for QNX, it only requires the dsmod hacks to get connected to the internet. Don't know if you could do it while dialed into npl or not. Also, the flasher is BETA right now, and not sure if available for general use yet either... Dean, I tried calling this morning but didn't get an answer. I'll try again later. 04-19-2000 06:20:51

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) Dean Martin Shadow: Thanks for the flash! Win98se is installing right now. TurboLinux will be this weekends' project. Thanks again! 04-19-2000 18:22:27

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) Jeff Rowe I am up in Lake County, Vernon Hills/Libertyville area. Id be happy to help anyone out with thier iopeners. Ive got the decruddign down to an art and can reflash a bios by hotswap. I also have 2.5" harddrives for sale. Jeff Rowe jrowe@medline.com Note: Looking for a local LUG - Lake County Area <anybody know of one?> 04-20-2000 21:53:03

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) Forradalom Monty in Wicker Park, did you get yours yet? Made the mods yet? Forradalom, Chicago 04-28-2000 20:15:32

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) Joey+Poprocket I am from NW Indiana. 25 minutes from downtown. If anybody needs help, I will be glad to do what i can do. bloodviper@hotmail.com good with tools and trouble-shooting currently boning-up on the i-opener. Still waiting for mine but have all the goodies when it finally get here. ordered CC on 3/20 run around from 3/21 till today Will probably be able to make a mounting bracket for anyone who wants on in the Chicagoland region. Good luck everybody. Visualize whirled peas....... 05-01-2000 21:22:32

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) duhh I live in chicago and im still looking to get one of these things. If anyone happens to stumble across one, id be more than happy to pay them for it and then some. 05-03-2000 07:46:12

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) scum How much? 06-26-2000 19:15:16

RE:I-Hackers in the Chicago Land Area?? (modified 0 times) Monty Mine's up and running now... Just need to figure out how I want to mount my HD to the IO. :) 07-06-2000 08:58:30

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