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GigaVue 2404 & Other Factory Reset Instructions

Do this when you have lost the root password and all superuser passwords for a GigaVUE 2404 or other models of similar vintage.

Summary

  Get into RedBoot ROM environment on console serial port via Control-C at boot. Issue reset command to restore factory defaults. Log in using default root password and set a new root password. Then rebuild configurations.

Steps

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An "Error loading /tmp/tun.kext" in Clockworkmod's Tether.app for the Mac typically (often?) means that Tether.app failed to detect and unload an interfering tun/tap kext.

Tether.app thus gets an error from the OS when it tries to insert itself into an already occupied spot.

CWM Tether.pp does OK unloading the kexts for TunnelBlick (and probably Viscosity, though I don't have that).  However, the OpenVPN kexts weren't found and turned down by Tether.app as of May 2016.

My solution was to uninstall OpenVPN completely. I only had OpenVPN present to see it fail for data center VLAN access, and had months ago switched to TunnelBlick for production use.

After I completely uninstalled OpenVPN, Tether.app can load its kext, and tethering works for me.

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Installing PyV8 in Kali for use with peepdf

Kali 2016.1 rolling comes with peepdf 0.3, but it doesn't at present have PyV8 for javascript. peepdf may tell you this sad news. Here, we find out how to be happier.

First, we solve some dependencies. v8 relies upon boost. The dependencies aren't packaged up nicely, so builds will fail. You can fix that with an apt-get of dev packages

	apt-get install libboost-python-dev
	apt-get install libboost-thread-dev

Then we get v8 and PyV8 from old googlecode and put them in /usr/local/src

rjohnson-ucar

2016-03-19

Here are a couple of options for getting to latest desired Android release when OTA fails on your Google Nexus.

Option 1 (manual OTA chain) may allow preservation of root access.
Option 2 (flashing new OS but not userdata) will require re-rooting if root access is needed.

Each of these options presumes you have installed and in your $PATH 'android', 'adb', 'fastboot', and other parts they need from the "Android SDK Tools" and "Android SDK Platform-tools" packages at http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/index.html?pkg=tools and http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html#Other
Also, you want to be relatively current on the release versions per http://tools.android.com/recent/updatingsdkfromcommand-line
$ android list sdk