What kind of problem are you having?

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I was unable to find the product you described, do you have a link you can send me? I guarantee nothing at this point, but I’ll at least give it a look.

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The use of adding an SD card was that if you needed to do any packet logging or packet sniffing, wanted to capture log messages or wanted to roll your own packages, you could copy the files to/from the SD card without worrying about running out of flash storage in the router itself. Most routers don’t have very much space to add additional packages so the SD card would give you more space to install extra stuff.

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I was pretty surprised with how much force I had to put into the pack to get it open as well and in the process of gaining access, I ended up breaking a screwdriver. The upside is that at least it’s not the brittle mess that people usually make for enclosures so it’ll take some abuse. Glad to know you were able to get in yours.

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The way it was explained to me, the FF was the start of the packet, kind of an “ATTENTION” line at the beginning as a way of telling the receiver to wake up and pay attention to the next flashes of light (timing) for the packet.

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There is no way this can be done with one ethernet card. When you join the green and the orange wires, you are effectively looping TX(orange) and RX(green) into itself and the switch senses an endless loop condition and shuts the port off. You have to use two ethernet cards so you can hear both sides of the conversation (Target to Switch on card A and Switch to Target on card B). Aggregating Card A and Card B gives you both sides of the traffic flow.

Good luck!
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Your best bet would be to see be to reset the cable box by performing a powercycle on it. There is not a remote command on most cable boxes that will force the cable box to reset itself so you’ll have to build an arduino controlled switch that you can control over the Internet (or via a computer at home). It sounds like an interesting project. Let me know if you decide to do this.

Good Luck!
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If I remember mine, (it’s been a while), you should be able to install iwconfig by simply doing “apt-get install iwconfig”. You will also need to install a wireless manager like NetworkManager or wicd (wicd was what I used, it’s lighter than NetworkManager). Once you have those applications installed, it should start working and you should be able to add your wireless info into wicd and let it perform the NIC configuration.

Good luck!
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I would recommend you check your keystones and the datasheet that came with it. Some keystones reverse the polarity of the two wires so where you would expect wires 4 and 5 actually come out of the jack as 5 and 4. I would also check your ethernet card and make sure you have a link light. Remember, this is for monitoring only, you won’t be able to pull an IP on this connection. If you are using Ubuntu or something with NetworkManager with it, stop the Network Manager service as this will almost certainly lead to failure as NetworkManager doesn’t understand monitoring mode for ethernet nics. Regardless of the state of your computer, you should at least have a link LED on the network card itself.

Good luck!

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Thanks for the feedback! I run several servers at my house. My pride and joy right now is an older HP DL380 G5 server that is my Virtualization server running ESXi. I have a couple of additional machines that serve other purposes, namely the router running pfSense and a NAS device.

You caught me on the ATX power supply mod. I was going to write up a howto for it, but Sparkfun beat me to the punch and designed this really nifty kit for it. Unfortunately there’s not much hacking involved as it’s pretty much a breakout board for any common ATX power supply (bonus is you can use a micro ATX PSU to save some space). You can buy this kit here: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9774 If you have a MicroCenter near you, I highly recommend picking up the kit, the box can be repurposed as a holder for the board without much fuss. This board has pretty much replaced my existing power supply (and a storm surge didn’t help that fact) so I use it pretty much exclusively with a mini ITX power supply like one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817148044.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out the site!

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