Re: [NTLK] rom-swapping between 2x00/eMate and 130

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net)
Date: Thu Feb 27 2003 - 20:45:47 PST


on 27/02/03 23:35, David Thiel at lx-newton_at_redundancy.redundancy.org wrote:

> So I have a MP130, and I'd really like to be able to get the thing
> online, use the WaveLAN drivers, etc, and I don't want to shell out
> for a 2100. I was eLooking at a broken eMate on eBay, and was
> wondering if I could grab the rom from that and put it into the 130
> to get NOS 2.1 and be able to use all this fancy stuff. Has anyone
> tried anything like this in the past? What's the difficulty factor, and
> is there anything that would be lacking?

I doubt you would be able to do that kind of swap since the ROM had the
system and the system is closely related to the hardware. Screen, internal
memory, PC card slots, etc. The first problem you would have, although I
haven't checked myself, would be to fit the eMate ROM onto the 130
motherboard. I'm fairly sure that the pinout is not the same, so it wouldn't
fit. If not, I'm sure that Frank or someone else would have tried it.

-Laurent.

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