Re: [Soekris] Trouble upgrading bios
Hi Marco, I'm upgrading now my Soekris 5501 bios with Minicom and Ubuntu (my workstation now). My step: -check if lrzsz is installed or apt-get install lrzsz -start minicom and ctrl-p to comBIOS Monitor -download the bios from soekris.com -On minicom ctrl a+z and O (cOnfigure), my serial port setup: Serial Device : /dev/ttyS0 Lockfile Location : /var/lock Bps/Par/Bits : 9600 8N1 Hardware Flow Control : No Software Flow Control : No ok, sounds god:) -write download - on comBIOS and very fast ctrl a+z and S (send file) -select xmodem, search the file click space bar and enter -Sending b5501_132i.bin, 784 blocks: Give your local XMODEM reeive command now etc etc on minicom -on comBios:flashupdate -on comBios:reboot On my various soekris this tips works fine, 4801 or 5501. If you need other help and you want write in italian check my mail address:) Matteo -- Matteo Basso email: matteo [at] netstop.it / www.netstop.it / www.kraba.it Net Stop Snc - Soluzioni Informatiche Str. Statale Sup. 11 verso VR, 257 36100 Vicenza (VI) - Italy Tel. +39 0444 521129 Fax. +39 0444 809885 ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Trouble upgrading bios
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 11:54:07PM +0200, Uffe Jakobsen wrote: I newer managed to update the bios using Minicom - I never found out why... Tried 'cu/lsx' method - it worked the first time... The cu/lsx approach is described here: (Google: soekris bios cu) http://www.ultradesic.com/?section=36 http://blog.brixandersen.dk/ A more permanent URL for the last link is http://blog.brixandersen.dk/?p=68 :) Regards, Brix -- Henrik Brix Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpLN8ae5a4zK.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Trouble upgrading bios
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 11:54:07PM +0200, Uffe Jakobsen wrote: I newer managed to update the bios using Minicom - I never found out why... One problem I ran into many times on minicom was failing to turn off flow-control. Turn them both off. RB ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
[Soekris] What is the meaning of BIOS parameter ConMute?
Hi The ConMute BIOS is apparently new to the 5501. I have been unable to find a user's manual for the 5501 so I (try to) use the manual for the 4801 instead. After having used the hints from the 5501 Mystery - to me - at boot time thread I was able to get the 5501 to boot without a serial terminal connected, but it would not reboot reliably. 1 out of 3 times the box hang - both with warm and cold reboot. It is obviously a flowcontrol issue - what else could it be?. I believe I have exhausted the configuration options for GRUB by using these lines in GRUB's menu.lst: # Hide the menu hiddenmenu # Setup a serial console serial --unit=0 --speed=19200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1 terminal serial so I have started looking for similar options in the BIOS. There aren't many and most of the are either obviously irrelevant for serial i/o or/and described in the 4801 manual. ConMute isn't described. It apparently has influence on the process for since I chane it from Enabled to Disabled, it has booted reliably. So what is the meaning of ConMute? Bent ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Throughput for various models?
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 12:37 -0500, Bill Borton wrote: I picked up a couple of net4501s for use as time servers and am pretty darn impressed with them. I'd like to get a couple more and use them as simple router/firewalls running NanoBSD. A quick throughput test with iperf only gives me ~14 Mbits/s without fastforwarding and ~39 Mbits/s with. (~94 Mbits/s through just the switch.) Do these numbers look correct for a net4501? Can anyone give me some idea as to what to expect with other models? I'm thinking about the 4801 and 5501. As a point of reference, I only get 10mbps from LAN to WAN, through NAT and firewall rules, on a 4501 running m0n0wall. I haven't seriously pressed the 5501 yet, but it feels much faster. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Throughput for various models?
Bill Borton wrote: I picked up a couple of net4501s for use as time servers and am pretty darn impressed with them. I'd like to get a couple more and use them as simple router/firewalls running NanoBSD. A quick throughput test with iperf only gives me ~14 Mbits/s without fastforwarding and ~39 Mbits/s with. (~94 Mbits/s through just the switch.) Do these numbers look correct for a net4501? Can anyone give me some idea as to what to expect with other models? I'm thinking about the 4801 and 5501. Looks right. With NAT and firewalling, a 4501 will get you around 10-15 Mb depending on OS, packet filter and NAT used, and configuration. 4801 will get you more like 30 Mb. I don't have a 5501 to test, but supposedly they can do at or near 100 Mb wire speed, from what I've heard. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
[Soekris] Net5501 Vlan support
Do the Via nics built into this unit have vlan support? Pfsense 1.2rc2 which runs FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 says no but I wanted to verify ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Net5501 Vlan support
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 16:19 -0400, Ryan L. Faircloth wrote: Do the Via nics built into this unit have vlan support? There was just a massive MFC of the em(4) into the stable branch. It supports TOE and presumably all of the hardware VLAN Tag and Checksum functions. Try a NetBSD 4 RC2 kernel -- wm(4) is wicked :} ~BAS Pfsense 1.2rc2 which runs FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 says no but I wanted to verify ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Net5501 Vlan support
At 04:40 PM 10/10/2007, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 16:19 -0400, Ryan L. Faircloth wrote: Do the Via nics built into this unit have vlan support? There was just a massive MFC of the em(4) into the stable branch. It The 5501 is vr(4) based. FreeBSD 7.x's vr driver supports VLANs, not sure about 6.2-- man page does not list it. ---Mike ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
[Soekris] Soekris net5501
Ok I was pointed to the FreeBSD 6.2 release notes which indicates that vlan is not supported with the vr driver but the Release 7 will support it. Does anyone know of a way to make this work in 6.2? ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Soekris net5501
I solved my net5501 VLAN problems (with m0n0wall 1.3B4) by adding a $30 Intel Pro 1000 GT PCI card... assuming a single tagged port is sufficient, with the vr ports as untagged. Lonnie On Oct 10, 2007, at 9:37 PM, Ryan L. Faircloth wrote: Ok I was pointed to the FreeBSD 6.2 release notes which indicates that vlan is not supported with the vr driver but the Release 7 will support it. Does anyone know of a way to make this work in 6.2? ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
