watchdogd
soekris6501#
but the box does not reboot.
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Also while I am here, can anyone recommend a distro that would be easy
to set all this up ? PCI card or USB device that I could hook up a pair
of regular handsets to ?
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ports with 4 removable, self powered
Root mount waiting for: usbus1
uhub1: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
Trying to mount root from nfs: []...
NFS ROOT: 10.255.255.1:/home/pxe9
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Subject: Re: [Soekris] svn commit: r221274 - in stable/8: contrib/gcc
contrib/gcc/config/i386 contrib/gcc/config/mips
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On 1/27/2011 1:32 PM, Robert Sexton wrote:
7751 * 16 * 63 = 7813008, so the system is reporting a sector count
thats larger than that calculated from C/H/S. If anything in the
filesystem refers to these blocks, interesting things will happen.
I'd try 7750/16/63, or 7812000
Thanks, I
On 1/27/2011 2:39 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
On 1/27/2011 1:32 PM, Robert Sexton wrote:
7751 * 16 * 63 = 7813008, so the system is reporting a sector count
thats larger than that calculated from C/H/S. If anything in the
filesystem refers to these blocks, interesting things will happen.
I'd
On 1/25/2011 4:58 PM, Jed Clear wrote:
At least in 8.1 you can add the line FlashDevice sandisk 4G to your
nanobsd.conf file and omit the NANO_MEDIASIZE value. You might want to try
that first.
Same issues :(
---Mike
-Jed
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On 1/26/2011 9:58 AM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
On 1/25/2011 4:58 PM, Jed Clear wrote:
At least in 8.1 you can add the line FlashDevice sandisk 4G to your
nanobsd.conf file and omit the NANO_MEDIASIZE value. You might want to try
that first.
Same issues :(
Some more details.
If I boot
the errors. How
are you burning the image onto the CF ? What values did you use to
create the image ? Or is it CF reader dependent ?
- Robert
On 1/24/11 6:41 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
On the latest SANDisk batch of CFs I got, I am getting periodic errors
reading from the flash on my 5501
On 1/24/2011 10:20 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
--- Original message ---
From: Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR
error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=7813103
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR
error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=7813119
ad0: FAILURE
On 1/25/2011 7:58 AM, Michael Smith wrote:
--- Original message ---
From: Mike Tancsa m...@sentex.net
Sent: 1/25/'11, 5:34
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR
error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=7813103
# ls -l _.disk.full
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 972776448 Jan 10 17:11
On the latest SANDisk batch of CFs I got, I am getting periodic errors reading
from the flash on my 5501 (FreeBSD RELENG_8). However, when I put the flash in
different readers-- e.g. attached to a regular server, no errors. On the 5501
I get periodic
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA
On 1/16/2011 9:45 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
On 1/16/2011 6:17 PM, Marek Salwerowicz wrote:
Hi all,
what modules to kernel should I load in order to make use of hardware
watchdog installed in Soekris net5501 ?
Hi,
Try adding
option CPU_SOEKRIS
Sorry, for the 5501 thats
On 1/17/2011 11:07 AM, Marek Salwerowicz wrote:
Hi,
Try adding
option CPU_SOEKRIS
Sorry, for the 5501 thats
option CPU_GEODE
---Mike
I have added both. Is there any possible test to check if watchdog
really does reboot ?
Just start /usr/sbin/watchdogd and then kill
On 1/16/2011 6:17 PM, Marek Salwerowicz wrote:
Hi all,
what modules to kernel should I load in order to make use of hardware
watchdog installed in Soekris net5501 ?
Hi,
Try adding
option CPU_SOEKRIS
to your kernel. Then just startup /usr/sbin/watchdogd
---Mike
. Most of the times, they start to put out inadequate
voltage over time.
---Mike
Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400
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a year ago. New power supply fixes the issue.
---Mike
My 2 cents.
Joao
On 9/28/10 6:59 AM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
At 05:37 PM 9/22/2010, Soren Kristensen wrote:
Our experience is that 9 out of 10 times issues with stability is either
problems with the power supply or
Hi
ALTQ_PRIQ
Thank you.
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On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 09:49 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
At 07:59 AM 10/7/2008, Sebastian Benoit wrote:
Hi,
I have a soekris 5501 with comBIOS ver. 1.33 that hangs when cold-booting.
I have tried with 2 different flash cards an a hard drive. another CF card
worked ok
At 04:44 AM 10/9/2008, Bill Maas wrote:
probably more CF brands that work just as well than don't. Having a kind
of CF whitelist on the Soekris Wiki would be a good thing..
It certainly would be useful. But the challenge is that the same
brand is often not the same. The Kingston line I used to
At 03:52 PM 10/9/2008, Sargun Dhillon wrote:
We've began seeing some of the hardware problems that others are talking
about. Additionally, the BIOS for the Soekris seems to be lacking (it'd
be nice if they just used coreboot). Do you guys know of other
Soekris-like devices? What are some
At 07:59 AM 10/7/2008, Sebastian Benoit wrote:
Hi,
I have a soekris 5501 with comBIOS ver. 1.33 that hangs when cold-booting.
I have tried with 2 different flash cards an a hard drive. another CF card
worked ok.
I gather it is recommended to update the BIOS to version 1.33c?
Contact Soekris
At 06:31 PM 10/1/2008, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 15:20 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
After those 2 boards, I was told last
week a new batch from manufacturing was coming on ~ the 24th and I
24th of October or or September? The shopping site still says in
stock quantity
. But I am feeling a
little bit abandoned by Soekris.
---Mike
Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400
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At 10:45 AM 8/31/2008, Bad Dog wrote:
We are using a 5501 in a field situation. Other devices in the same
enclosure report the ambient temp at 34 deg (all readings in this msg
are Celsius.) There is a disk mounted in the 5501 case that reads
between 38-40 deg. The CPU, however, often reads 60
At 03:28 AM 8/25/2008, Henrik Harms wrote:
Hi,
I have two net5501 (Bios 1.33) of which one works fine (as far as I
can see) but the other does not even come up with the BIOS Post
messages. I had it working before but after a reboot (where I had
removed a USB2.0-CF reader) it will just light up
At 07:18 AM 8/21/2008, Steve Clark wrote:
Hello,
Does the net5501 have a watchdog timer. If so does anyone have any
linux or freebsd code
to start it, etc.
Hi,
I think it a general purpose timer which are used to setup a
watchdog. The code is in FreeBSD works quite well. See
At 08:53 AM 8/9/2008, Bernd Walter wrote:
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 02:04:28PM +0200, Wim Vandeputte mailinglist
only wrote:
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 12:53:23PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
You can easily get a CRC read error for a logical block far away from
the block which was written
At 10:08 PM 6/29/2008, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
Will a 5501 just work with FreeBSD ? Or are there still outstanding issues
With RELENG_7 it will work fine. The ethernet drivers before RELENG_7
dont work very well however.
---Mike
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At 11:24 AM 5/21/2008, Moe Sizlak wrote:
I will see how it goes over the next few days but note to
freebsd/monowall/openbsd developers
the vr driver is *broken* for soekris net5501.
Not all users but certainly enough.
All of the problems I saw were fixed in RELENG_7 of FreeBSD back on April 11th
At 03:04 AM 3/23/2008, Mike Kelly wrote:
# usbdevs -v
Controller /dev/usb0:
addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, OHCI root hub(0x),
AMD(0x), rev 1.00
port 1 powered
port 2 powered
port 3 powered
port 4 powered
Controller /dev/usb1:
addr 1: high speed, self powered, config 1,
At 01:16 PM 3/23/2008, Mike Kelly wrote:
On 23-Mar-08, at 9:50 AM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
Even if you dont have a driver for it, it should attach as a ugen
device. Perhaps the connector is busted :(
---Mike
Yes, it does look that way doesn't it? It's not a question of driver
support
At 10:00 AM 3/22/2008, Guy F. Boyd wrote:
WRT to the vr(4) driver thanks big also...
.. I may be able to live with this for a while if this is your referece:
http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2008-February/013982.html
Happily for me, just so happens that I'm doing some bpf(4)
At 08:21 PM 3/22/2008, Mike Kelly wrote:
Is there any trick to getting this to work, or could I have a bad board?
Everything else on the board appears to work properly.
Havent tried the 5501s on LINUX, but I do know they work under
FreeBSD. If you can, try it as it should work. We have a
At 06:28 PM 3/21/2008, Guy F. Boyd wrote:
Now maybe I'm missing something obvious but I'm confused how one brand of
media can be detected as Pri Master (SanDisk) and the Fry's house brand (?)
A-Data can be detected as Pri Slave and no changes to the BIOS
have been made.
Hi,
I came
At 07:45 AM 3/19/2008, Soren Kristensen wrote:
Hi Mike,
Mike Tancsa wrote:
I got another batch today (e.g. serial # 160990) with more boot
problems. On a cold boot, it fails and I cant find a way to work
around that. If I am on the serial console, I can type reboot and
it will then boot up
I got another batch today (e.g. serial # 160990) with more boot
problems. On a cold boot, it fails and I cant find a way to work
around that. If I am on the serial console, I can type reboot and it
will then boot up
But on cold boot, it fails. Even stranger, is on this one I cant
seem to
At 06:12 PM 3/18/2008, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Tancsa writes:
Even stranger, is on this one I cant seem to disable PXE.
BootDrive = 80 81 F0 FF
To truly disable PXE, set this to
80 81 ff ff
Thanks, I did set it to just 80 and that avoided the PXE
Some more details and a sort of work around. I can boot after a
cold boot by doing the following steps on this box
Power up the unit.
Wait for the Ctrl-P
sit at the prompt for 60 seconds, and then it will work... At least
I was able to do this 5 out of 5 times. So, taking this datapoint
At 06:46 PM 3/7/2008, Brian Henderson wrote:
I just picked up a net5501-60 and a Compact Flash card to build a
router, and I have flashed the card and it works, but only on a warm
boot. The card is not detected when the power is plugged in, but it is
detected if you press the reset button or type
At 12:38 PM 3/10/2008, Soren Kristensen wrote:
The info missing here is: did the CF card work with an earlier
comBIOS version ?
Hi,
Yes it did. Worked great.
Now some more details, that just make things more confusing.
Using the same flash which has this 60 second delay, I took it
At 06:05 PM 2/26/2008, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
Stuart Henderson wrote:
I've seen some problems with the onboard NICs on net5501, where
if the device connected is unplugged and replugged, the interface
has link, is able to transmit packets, but is unable to receive
packets (nothing shown in
At 12:52 PM 2/26/2008, Stuart Henderson wrote:
I've seen some problems with the onboard NICs on net5501, where
if the device connected is unplugged and replugged, the interface
has link, is able to transmit packets, but is unable to receive
packets (nothing shown in tcpdump on the interface).
At 04:27 PM 1/19/2008, Jed Clear wrote:
First off, has anyone else gotten 6.3R to boot on a net5501?
I'm planning on trying a GENERIC kernel next, but am wondering if 6.3R is
doing something different with DMA by default, perhaps needing the 1.32h
and i comBIOS fixes.
Hi,
You definitely want to
BootPartition = Disabled
BootDrive = 80 81 F0 FF
ShowPCI = Enabled
Reset = Hard
set conspeed 9600
Error Programming Flash.
set conspeed 9600
Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400
Sentex
At 01:35 PM 12/31/2007, RB wrote:
Does anyone have any further information on the 1461? I know the 5501
and holidays have put a dent in Soekris' throughput, but it's been in
Prototype status for quite some time now. I'd hate to have to start
seeking out another supplier for a current crypto
At 04:26 PM 12/15/2007, Bent wrote:
Hi,
2007/12/15, Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I don't have the card in front of me, but yes, it works, standard
connector. I used a header board from an Asus mobo.
The connector is clearly marked on the case: Rightmost connector,
placed
At 10:25 AM 10/3/2007, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Tancsa writes:
At 09:51 AM 9/17/2007, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jean-Michel Vansteene writes:
Here is the patch for FreeBSD-current to access the net5501
error-led. I've asked
At 11:48 AM 10/11/2007, Ryan L. Faircloth wrote:
I am attempting to update one of these units that currently runs
1.31. Using Hypercom the transfer appears to work
Hypercom should work, but try and do it with cu and lsx just in case
there is some strange issue with hypercom. I have done a half
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
At 11:01 AM 10/5/2007, Soren Kristensen wrote:
Hi Everybody,
I just posted a net5501 BIOS update with:
comBIOS vers 1.32i
* fixed PCI config byte/word write handling (IDE DMA enable)
This time it should hopefully fix any IDE DMA setup issues But
please let me know how it goes.
So far
At 03:41 PM 10/5/2007, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Tancsa writes:
The only mystery remaining is that FreeBSD 6.x sees this flash as
ad1, but FreeBSD current sees it as ad0.
Have you by any chance lost the ATA_STATIC_ID option in your -current
kernel ?
Yikes
At 03:46 AM 10/3/2007, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin K. Petersen writes:
As many of you have noticed the net5501 IDE controller doesn't fancy
coming back after a soft reset when it's been in DMA mode.
It's not just the IDE controller, it's also the network
At 10:25 AM 10/3/2007, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Tancsa writes:
At 09:51 AM 9/17/2007, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jean-Michel Vansteene writes:
Here is the patch for FreeBSD-current to access the net5501
error-led. I've asked
At 07:51 PM 10/3/2007, Soren Kristensen wrote:
Hi Everybody,
I just posted a net5501 BIOS update with:
comBIOS vers 1.32h
* fixed IDE DMA enable issue on net5501
* fixed soft reboot issue on net5501
Hi,
Unfortunately, I still see the soft reboot issue on FreeBSD.
e.g. from
Hi Guys,
I am having a tough time find the right type of serial cable
to hook up the second serial port on the 4801s and 5501s. Does
anyone have a good online source they use for these parts ?
---Mike
Mike
of throughput. FreeBSD does not
support the crypto offload. Has anyone tried something similar with
OpenBSD or NetBSD ? They both have drivers for AES crypto offload.
---Mike
Mike Tancsa
At 03:11 PM 9/16/2007, Jan Hoevers wrote:
I'm using a Soekris net4801-60 as a router, with a lan1641 in the PCI
slot, giving me 7 ethernet ports. I'm running pfSense 1.0.1, a routing
package based on FreeBSD 6.1 and PF. For quite some time everyting was
running file.
Not sure about the 4801
At 05:36 PM 9/13/2007, Bob Camp wrote:
Hi
Has anybody else seen problems with recently manufactured CF cards
being recognized in the 4501?
I bought a boat load of old SanDisk 512MB off ebay and they work well
on my last batch (4 weeks ago) of 4511s. I have more 4511s coming
next week. What
At 07:41 AM 8/24/2007, Soren Kristensen wrote:
Hi Everybody,
Have been a little busy with production issues, but I am working to, and
will, resolve any problems there are with the new net5501, or more like,
the comBIOS used on the net5501.
But none of my disk drives here experience the reboot
At 03:52 AM 8/10/2007, ev wrote:
and . booting from the Flash with the non recognized harddrive installed
causes these errors in the boot seq. (6.2 release FreeBSD) ... I remove
the HDrive and the errors disapear
If you add
hw.ata.ata_dma=0
hw.ata.atapi_dma=0
to your /boot/loader.conf
At 02:26 AM 7/24/2007, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
--===1199632190==
There's a little secret about the 5501 which Søren hasn't sad much
about yet: The 5501 has a simple lights out feature on the console
port.
On your serial console type
+++
wait second or so then type
At 01:07 PM 7/17/2007, Mark wrote:
Can anyone help with how to turn off the console/terminal process,
or otherwise get access to the comm. port in Linux?
Take a look in the bios of the unit
show
ConSpeed = 9600
ConLock = Enabled
ConMute = Disabled
BIOSentry = Enabled
PCIROMS = Enabled
At 06:21 PM 7/15/2007, Soren Kristensen wrote:
The MAC addresses are programmed during manufacturing test, and are
supposed to be unique for each board. But since there are humans
involved errors can happens
Hi,
Thanks for the clarification. Its no biggie in this case, as
the 2
At 06:40 AM 6/20/2007, Otfried Geffert wrote:
Kannaiyan Natesan wrote:
collecting money and delaying the
product.
Sorry, but nobody has collected money from me
-
I have not paid a cent for ordering a board at kd85.com
Nor me. My credit card didnt get charged until it shipped. I hate
.
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At 02:29 PM 6/18/2007, Kannaiyan Natesan wrote:
It looks so funny with the business, why they urge to take orders
without any plans with the shipping date. I hope this is not the first
time happening with soekris. Lack of Planning? Lack of funds?
Also in the website they mentioned May, now May
At 09:30 PM 6/18/2007, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
On 18-Jun-07, at 9:03 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
I think OpenBSD supports the crypto features of the chipset. Does
NetBSD have any plans ?
I ported the OpenBSD driver for NetBSD -current over the weekend and
it has since been pulled up to the 4.0 branch
At 04:32 AM 5/4/2007, Jochen Eisinger wrote:
Hi,
when I reboot my net4801 (using OpenBSD 4.1 and prior), my net4801 often
(not always, but nearly always) hangs after the BIOS listed my IDE
device, but before it lists the PCI devices.
The red error light is on during this time.
Powercycling
Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400
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Cambridge, Ontario Canada
At 10:54 PM 4/30/2007, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
Depending on your kernel the following may be relevant:
http://www.mattb.net.nz/blog/2006/07/17/patching-the-sc520-watchdog-to-reboot-soekris-devices/
Are there patches for {Free,Open}BSD anywghere ? Or does it just
work on these
At 08:28 AM 4/26/2007, David Dudley wrote:
Does anyone know of a manufacturer that makes a Mini-PCI card for
Cellular communications? I'm going to be using a 5501 as a remote unit
out in the boonies, and there's nothing out there, save a solar panel
and good cell coverage.
If you find one (or
At 06:21 AM 3/24/2007, Bernd Walter wrote:
but what ?
Set the COM_FREQ properly - according to your description COM_FREQ*4
should work.
Unfortunately the PCI device doesn't tell the xtals used on a given
hardware, so you have to manually tune this point.
I even have a 4 port card at home with
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