- Cisco asa 5505 power adapter how to#
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- Cisco asa 5505 power adapter series#
Cisco asa 5505 power adapter how to#
It would indeed be possible to boot a different os, that's for sure, but that requires a lot of knowledge.Īll the guys who ported linux or a different os to a new arch had the same problems: where to get infos? how to debug? I think you will not be able to do anything about the "bios" that is present on that board. If anyone knows any good sites that could help me. My guess is that it should not be too hard to boot an alternative OS after the bios has done it's thing.īut I am not a programmer, so I might be wrong. I don't think that it is possible in any easy way to replace the original bios with anything less locked down, since the mainboard is made by Cisco. I haven't found anything that could help me. I have ben searching the net for anything useful.
Cisco asa 5505 power adapter series#
Cisco ASA 5500 Series Advanced Inspection and Prevention Security Services Module and Card. Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances Data Sheet. Try the usual tools, like file, hexdump, readelf. Cisco ASA 5505 Adaptive Security Appliance for Small Office or Branch Locations Data Sheet. You will have to try to find out what exactly is contained in that bin file. That this processor is a amd geode is not really the point, since it's simply a x86 processor. Maybe the device is too expensive for anyone else having the same idea as me. There are some links to pages for "Linux on Geode" here: So if it is possible to boot Linux on top of the original bios, it would be possible to keep the console. If I am not mistaken the console is controlled by the cisco bios.
Cisco asa 5505 power adapter serial#
There is a serial console where I can interact with the device. If the Cisco bios is somehow locked, I have no idea how to proceed. The bios looks for a bin file there if I am not mistaken. I don't think that the Cisco proprietary bios boots from the first sector the same way as a "normal" bios does.
I am just a little unsure of how, if possible to make the Cisco bios boot from it. I could take that card and copy a Linux kernel on it. There is a 128 MB flash card where the Cisco IOS is living. i am very unsure if you will be able to use the network interfaces, because the might be using proprietary cisco chips. do you have a serial console? i guess you will have to use that to interact with the system in the first place.Īnd even if you manage to boot linux. I guess this beast does not have a vga adapter or a slot where you could attach one. I don't see any any ide or scsi interfaces here, only a card slot. The CPU is a Geode LX, 500 MHz.Īnyone here done anything similar? How would I go about installing the system?Ĭheck which options you have to boot from. I think it should be possible, to successfully turn it into a gentoo router. I really would like to try it out, but could not find anything googling around. Has anyone installed Linux on such a device? I have a Cisco ASA 5505 here, which I can do what I wan with
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