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Originally Posted by jgray
None of the local Linux firmware gurus have any suggestions?
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Well, the problem is that a "firmware" can be anything; it just have to contain the software for the device. It is the device-specific firmware update program that transforms it to be something meaningful.
In the case of the iliad, the firmware is a compressed image of the system partition of the device.
If you want to investigate the firmware you have, a good starting point is using the "file" command, as in:
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$ file firmwarefile
If you have a reasonably recent linux distro, the file command can recognize a lot of standard compression formats, partitions, filesystem images, etc.
If the firmware is a simple compressed file, you can uncompress it and do a "file" over the results.
Bear in mind that in embedded linux is not uncommon to have the "firmware" be a encrypted zip file, so only the upgrade program can use it, not the user.
Hope that helps.