anguish79 Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Okay, so I have a Symantec Network Security 7160 appliance. It no longer is running as it was designed, but rather I'm going to be turning it into an ESXi box for a lab (have it installed, just need to get some VM's on it). One of the things it has is an LCD panel on the front. I'm already tired of looking at it saying Symantec on it... With that said, I'm looking to see where to even begin to get it to display something different. Anyone got some pointers? Please? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beakmyn Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Okay, so I have a Symantec Network Security 7160 appliance. It no longer is running as it was designed, but rather I'm going to be turning it into an ESXi box for a lab (have it installed, just need to get some VM's on it). One of the things it has is an LCD panel on the front. I'm already tired of looking at it saying Symantec on it... With that said, I'm looking to see where to even begin to get it to display something different. Anyone got some pointers? Please? Thanks! Find a model number of the controller chip and figure out how it's being interfaced. If you're lucky it's serial and you'll be able to interface easily using LDCProc or similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anguish79 Posted September 18, 2009 Author Share Posted September 18, 2009 Okay, so I'm being a noob here. Would I expect to find the controller chip with the LCD itself? I'm assuming so. In which case, I see a couple of different chips, but I ssupect the bigger one is the one I want. I'll do some Googling and see what I can find based on the numbers. I do know there is a six pin jumper pad that wasn't being used, but knowing that the *nix variant Symantec uses for their products was able to control it, I would figure I could somehow control it as well. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anguish79 Posted September 18, 2009 Author Share Posted September 18, 2009 Okay, doing some further research, it looks like it is serial, and I can do what I want to do. Just need to figure out how to get lcdproc on there, but that's something for next week. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrystalMethod Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Not really sure what you want it to display, but, from what I've seen, it's a monochrome 2 line LCD display. Garanteed Symantec doesn't manufacture that LCD. It should have some other marking on it that will tell you what it is, and who makes it. After that, it should only take a lilttle more reseach to find out how to make it suit your needs. For basic information a serial port connection should do, USB would be a lot more involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anguish79 Posted September 28, 2009 Author Share Posted September 28, 2009 I had it ripped apart and found quite a bit of information (ask me where I put it though). It looks like it is serial port-based. Unfortunately, I'm not in a position to tear the box apart for a bit to dig further into it. As far as what I want to display, well, anything other than "Symantec" on it is ideal at this point.. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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