Absolutely fantastic!
My thanks to those responsible. I only used my Chumby as an alarm clock and to listen to my programmed Pandora night music channel. I did have my stock quotes run daytime, but to be honest, it is fine for me as is. I have the Chumby one I guess, the one that is white and a cube with a blue line? I am totally unfamiliar with the programming and just want to know what is next?

You can check the firmware version on the Settings ->Chumby Info page. It should be SW: 1.7.2

Yes.

Please see this thread. I will be updating it for instructions for all devices, however, I've already added the instructions for your device.

I have an Infocast 8 inch model. Does the update work for that model as well? All I see now is the clock calendar.

Ok thanks. I sure miss that ole boy! Waking up in the morning looking at the headlines. sigh.....

I may have screwed it up though....I ssh'ed into it and tried to change the root PW. It never asked me for the new PW so I gave up....now when I try to ssh into it it needs telling me invalid PW - it does not accept 'no PW'. I must have changed it somehow. I copied and pasted instructions from a site on how to change it but it never seemed to work but I guess it did change it to who knows what. Is there a way to wipe it? I tried the factory reset and that didnt do it.

I wonder if the firmware for the infocast 3.5 will work for my 8 incher?

Thanks. Glad I asked

I found a couple of firmware files from various forums.

Zurk_dhumby8_infocast and one other one that appears to be for the 8 incher. Do you think they would be ok....it looked like the zurk one I could place on a USB stick and have the infocast boot from it without loading it to try it out.

Thanks a million for the advise. I'm learning a lot about this little bugger...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you plug in a USB keyboard to the Chumby and it will go into a terminal with root access? That might fix bclinton's problem, as he can undo the changes.

I'm not sure if the same holds true for infocast... but on my little guy (CC) I load my version of the shadow file every time I boot.

Mount /etc r/w & then copy from usb stick in debugchumby like so.

# cat /mnt/usb/debugchumby

mount -t loop -o bind /psp/etc /etc
cp /mnt/usb/shadow /etc/shadow

If you use something like the following for the shadow file on /mnt/usb - blank passwds for root & default:

root::10933:0:99999:7:::
bin:*:10933:0:99999:7:::
daemon:*:10933:0:99999:7:::
adm:*:10933:0:99999:7:::
lp:*:10933:0:99999:7:::
sync:*:10933:0:99999:7:::
shutdown:*:10933:0:99999:7:::
halt:*:10933:0:99999:7:::
uucp:*:10933:0:99999:7:::
operator:*:10933:0:99999:7:::
nobody:*:10933:0:99999:7:::
default::10933:0:99999:7:::

Debugchumby goo runs as root on boot... so you can do stuff there before your passwd comes into play. Does that get you out of a hole?