After beeing very disappointed by the support and lack of most advertised future developments for the iPronto I decided to hack into my device. I dumped the firmware, extracted the cramfs and jffs2 filesystems, compiled an inetd, tcpd and in.telnetd, modified hosts.deny and now can telnet into my remote.

iProntoTSi6400:/proc# cat version
Linux version 2.4.17-rmk5-pxa1-cerf1 (BELVJHL@linux5) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release/MontaVista)) #1 Thu Jul 7 13:45:09 CEST 2005
iProntoTSi6400:/proc# cat cpuinfo
Processor : Intel XScale-PXA250 rev 4 (v5l)
BogoMIPS : 397.31

Looking at the changes from 1.6.18 to 1.9.5 I doubt there is a full time programmer responsible for the iPronto Software. The changes are so minor and mostly bugfixes. For example MMC support has always been part of the image but the modules were unloaded in previous releases.

Does anybody know where to get sources for the Embedded Linux parts under GPL?