hellow,
i am jamshaid , and i m trying to access astlinux from soekris net 5501.
i have burned the image in cf card and made net5501 boot from it.
initially it demanded for my BIOS update . which i succeed in doing
after a lot of trying . then net5501 identified my cf card and start
booting from
On 19.06.2012 10:19, Jamshaid Anwar wrote:
[snip]
after booting for the first time it ended at user login and password,
i assumed that the installation is done so i switched it off.
but on the next day when i switched it on again , although it start
booting from cf card but it halts
Hi,
About the riser of the net6501, will it be available in the same time ?
Do you have a date ?
Thank you.
Regards,
Maxime
Le 12/09/2011 19:55, Soren Kristensen a écrit :
Hi Frank List,
Frank Schuhmann wrote:
Hi list,
the Soekris 1U 19 Inch Rack mount Case for the net5501-70 has a
Hi Frank List,
Frank Schuhmann wrote:
Hi list,
the Soekris 1U 19 Inch Rack mount Case for the net5501-70 has a second
PCI Slot and the net5501 board owns a second PCI option, but how should
I insert the second PCI card?
Is there something special hardware needed to fit the card in?
Hi list,
the Soekris 1U 19 Inch Rack mount Case for the net5501-70 has a second PCI Slot
and the net5501 board owns a second PCI option, but how should I insert the
second PCI card?
Is there something special hardware needed to fit the card in? Perhaps something
like a riser card or other
Hi all,
what modules to kernel should I load in order to make use of hardware watchdog
installed in Soekris net5501 ?
AFAIK it is located in CS5536 chip, but don't know which module is responsible
for access to it?
I was trying to load ichwd module, but it is only Intel watchdog module?
--
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
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 the process?
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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
I have added both. Is there any possible test to check if watchdog
really does reboot ?
Just start /usr/sbin/watchdogd and then kill the process?
Yes, but make sure you do kill -9, not just kill
OK, it does reboot :)
Thanks for your help !
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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
Hi all,
I am unable to dynamically load modules to support ATA disks on soekris
net5501-70.
I boot via PXE diskless FreeBSD-Current.
In kernel config there are commented out options:
#device ata
#device atadisk
After boot, I load modules:
# kldload ata.ko
#
On 06/11/10 16:18, Jan Ceuleers wrote:
This seems to be confirmed: the box is much more stable in that it has
not crashed since I moved my traffic over to the Ethernet ports that are
furthest away from the mini-PCI card.
I'd be grateful if others could try and replicate these results.
After
On 29/10/10 19:40, Jan Ceuleers wrote:
Well I've tried something else, namely to use eth2 and eth3 for my
traffic instead of eth0 and eth1. This has now been working without
crashes for a week, whereas previously it would crash at least once
every 2 days, and sometimes as frequently as once an
All,
On 11/10/10 14:10, Soren Kristensen wrote:
Jan Ceuleers wrote:
I have similar problems with my 5501 crashing very frequently. I've
tried two separate power supplies without effect.
Some questions to everyone out there:
(...)
- One data point: when my machine crashes there is no
On 22/09/10 23:37, Soren Kristensen wrote:
Our experience is that 9 out of 10 times issues with stability is either
problems with the power supply or with the software, especially Linux as
it seems to have taken long time for a stable VT6105M Linux driver to
show up
If it's one of the
Hi Jan,
Jan Ceuleers wrote:
On 22/09/10 23:37, Soren Kristensen wrote:
Our experience is that 9 out of 10 times issues with stability is either
problems with the power supply or with the software, especially Linux as
it seems to have taken long time for a stable VT6105M Linux driver to
show
Hi Soren,
On 11/10/10 14:10, Soren Kristensen wrote:
A couple of question/suggestions:
1) Does it crash without wifi activity ?
Yes it does. I've had it crash in the middle of the night, when all of
the laptops in the house were powered off.
Happened only once though. And when it crashes
2010/10/11 Soren Kristensen so...@soekris.com:
I'm sorry that I can't track software that much, busy designing new
hardware But didn't somebody recently post about fixing the Linux
VIA driver ?
1. About Linux VIA driver - it have race condition issue (somewhere in
interrupt handler I
Hi Jan,
Jan Ceuleers wrote:
Hi Soren,
On 11/10/10 14:10, Soren Kristensen wrote:
Oh and BTW: my main server happens to have nearly the same NIC (yeah I
know: a main server whose network interface is only 100 Mbit/s :-) and
it doesn't crash like this. It's a Via VT6102 Rhine-II instead of
On 11/10/10 16:11, Andrey Safonov wrote:
2. I write my own driver for VT6105M for this board, but this is an
alpha version now.
I don't have place (http/ftp) for share it. If someone have such place
- I can send sources my email.
It works OK for me and I'm using it now instead standard Linux
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Soren Kristensen so...@soekris.com wrote:
Hi Jan,
Jan Ceuleers wrote:
On 22/09/10 23:37, Soren Kristensen wrote:
Our experience is that 9 out of 10 times issues with stability is either
problems with the power supply or with the software, especially Linux as
On 11/10/10 16:16, Soren Kristensen wrote:
Oe thing about drivers, our small slow embedded computers can provoke
driver/software errors that are normally masked by faster processors,
Understood.
The CPU on my server is a 1.5GHz Via C7, which indeed has between 1.5
and three times the bogomips
2010/10/11 Jan Ceuleers jan.ceule...@computer.org:
On 11/10/10 16:16, Soren Kristensen wrote:
Oe thing about drivers, our small slow embedded computers can provoke
driver/software errors that are normally masked by faster processors,
Understood.
The CPU on my server is a 1.5GHz Via C7,
Arun Khan wrote at 2010-09-30 00:35 -0500:
2010/9/30 green greenfreedo...@gmail.com:
Arun Khan wrote at 2010-09-29 14:12 -0500:
I suggest a 12V DC, 2A SMPS. It should have sufficient horse power
for the board.
Okay, thanks.
Considering that such a thing seems to be unavailable from
2010/9/30 green greenfreedo...@gmail.com:
Arun Khan wrote at 2010-09-30 00:35 -0500:
2010/9/30 green greenfreedo...@gmail.com:
Arun Khan wrote at 2010-09-29 14:12 -0500:
I suggest a 12V DC, 2A SMPS. It should have sufficient horse power
for the board.
Okay, thanks.
Considering
2010/9/29 green greenfreedo...@gmail.com:
The board is powered by a 12V 1.5A supply provided by Soekris.
I have a 5V 2A power supply from a Buffalo WHR-HP-G54, but that is actually
less, right?
Power = Volt * Amp; in your case it is 10W which is low as per [1]
Do I need to get a different
Arun Khan wrote at 2010-09-29 14:12 -0500:
I suggest a 12V DC, 2A SMPS. It should have sufficient horse power
for the board.
Okay, thanks.
Considering that such a thing seems to be unavailable from Soekris, perhaps I
will just have to get the 3A one. Unless there is a compatible power
2010/9/30 green greenfreedo...@gmail.com:
Arun Khan wrote at 2010-09-29 14:12 -0500:
I suggest a 12V DC, 2A SMPS. It should have sufficient horse power
for the board.
Okay, thanks.
Considering that such a thing seems to be unavailable from Soekris, perhaps I
will just have to get the 3A
2010/9/23 Thomas Nyström t...@saeab.se:
Citerar Alan lameventa...@gmail.com:
2010/9/23 JOORIS Emmanuel ejoo...@imaginnov.com:
Le mercredi 22 septembre 2010 à 23:37 +0200, Soren Kristensen a écrit :
Hi Everybody,
JOORIS Emmanuel wrote:
Hello,
I buy a net5501 last year i think, and
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,
Have there been any bad batches of power supplies in the
past ? We have had a lot of failures all related to power
supplies.
Mike,
I can report that I have about 14 power supplies with the label SMP
Technologies Inc. which have failed over the course of the last year. I
believe this about 80-90% of a set of 5501. Same location but different
power sources.
The drill usually is: monitoring tools make me aware a host
At 11:22 AM 9/28/2010, Joao Pedras wrote:
The drill usually is: monitoring tools make me aware a host being down,
I try the console with no luck. When I power cycle it the red led stays
on. Replacing the ac adapter fixes it.
Yes, this has been our experience as well. These were deployed about
Mike Tancsa wrote at 2010-09-28 10:31 -0500:
At 11:22 AM 9/28/2010, Joao Pedras wrote:
The drill usually is: monitoring tools make me aware a host being down,
I try the console with no luck. When I power cycle it the red led stays
on. Replacing the ac adapter fixes it.
Yes, this has been
Le mercredi 22 septembre 2010 à 23:37 +0200, Soren Kristensen a écrit :
Hi Everybody,
JOORIS Emmanuel wrote:
Hello,
I buy a net5501 last year i think, and since April my board crash a
lot(no answer on serial link no network...). the watchdog automatically
restart the board, but this is
Chris Galle kirjutas:
Well, there you go, the Alix case is Aluminum.
So the entire Alix case is acting like a heat sink.
I can do subjective test by touching with hand and my assertion is that
net5501 CPU is usually warmer than Alix CPU under similar load, even
without case. Why, i don't
Hi Everybody,
JOORIS Emmanuel wrote:
Hello,
I buy a net5501 last year i think, and since April my board crash a
lot(no answer on serial link no network...). the watchdog automatically
restart the board, but this is annoying. the PSU can be the source of
crash ?
In the board i have a wifi n
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 01:31:18 +0900
Alan lameventa...@gmail.com wrote:
I have the same problem. This goes away when I stop using the
mini-pci wifi card and use an external access point on one of the
ethernet ports. I have this problem with two completely different
mini-pci wifi cards
This is very well possible. When i got my net5501 i found out that
the case has no thermal design whatsoever and is prone to overheating
even in unloaded conditions (measured 70°C cpu temp when _idle_).
Over all, i do not recommend getting the standard net5501 case as
it is a clear
On 21.09.2010 09:56, Alvar Kusma wrote:
net5501. Soekris LX CPU generates more heat. Why? Don't know. Clock is
the same, power likely too, only difference is that net5501 has 512MB
RAM vs. Alix 256MB.
What color is the net5501 case? If it is this one
Stanislav Meduna kirjutas:
What color is the net5501 case? If it is this one
http://soekris.eu/shop/images/net5501_BC_front_big.jpg
All Soekris own cases are same (lime) color.
and Alix one is black in- and outside, that might
well make the difference.
Alix makes 3 colors - plain
Le mardi 21 septembre 2010 à 12:09 +0300, Alvar Kusma a écrit :
Stanislav Meduna kirjutas:
What color is the net5501 case? If it is this one
http://soekris.eu/shop/images/net5501_BC_front_big.jpg
All Soekris own cases are same (lime) color.
and Alix one is black in- and outside, that
Well, there you go, the Alix case is Aluminum. Aluminum is much better
at conducting heat than the steel that the Soekris case is made from.
So the entire Alix case is acting like a heat sink.
2010/9/21 JOORIS Emmanuel ejoo...@imaginnov.com:
Le mardi 21 septembre 2010 à 12:09 +0300, Alvar Kusma
Hello,
I buy a net5501 last year i think, and since April my board crash a
lot(no answer on serial link no network...). the watchdog automatically
restart the board, but this is annoying. the PSU can be the source of
crash ?
In the board i have a wifi n pci card and an 8Gb CF and the PSU is an
Hi,
On 18 Sep 2010, at 08:42, JOORIS Emmanuel wrote:
the PSU can be the source of crash ?
The PSU is the very first thing you should check.
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r...@gid.co.uk
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Le samedi 18 septembre 2010 à 09:12 +0100, Bob Bishop a écrit :
Hi,
On 18 Sep 2010, at 08:42, JOORIS Emmanuel wrote:
the PSU can be the source of crash ?
The PSU is the very first thing you should check.
i don't have any backup PSU anyone in bordeaux, France ?
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Hey,
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 08:54:12AM +, JOORIS Emmanuel wrote:
the PSU can be the source of crash ?
The PSU is the very first thing you should check.
i don't have any backup PSU anyone in bordeaux, France ?
You can use any DC power supply between 7 and 28 volt, for example
I have hit a crash :
-- top --
top - 17:17:20 up 23:04, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.02, 0.00
Tasks: 71 total, 1 running, 70 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.9%us, 0.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 95.5%id, 0.0%wa, 1.0%hi, 1.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem:515724k total, 226276k used, 289448k free,
I have the same problem. This goes away when I stop using the
mini-pci wifi card and use an external access point on one of the
ethernet ports. I have this problem with two completely different
mini-pci wifi cards (atheros and broadcom). My theory is that maybe
the cards overheat, and I'm
I cannot get a Soekris net5501 to boot OpenBSD 4.5 from a hard drive.
Much traffic has passed on the Soekris email list. I've now included
m...@openbsd.org, because it might be an OpenBSD problem.
I re-installed OpenBSD. And I noticed a problem at the end of the
install process. I have a
Hello,
My apologies for the double mailing, I had omitted posting full boot
traces for the two scenarios I described in my previous e-mail :
DarkSoul wrote:
Hello,
I just tried installing OpenBSD 4.3 on my Soekris, using a 2G Compact
Flash card (which is detected by bsd.rd kernel fine
for the MFGPT timer in the kernel configuration solved my
problem
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marius De Wit
Sent: 15 July 2008 12:56 PM
To: soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com
Subject: [Soekris] Soekris net5501 box USB flashdrive not detected
Dear
.
Regards
Marius de Wit
-Original Message-
From: Martin Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 15 July 2008 11:13 PM
To: Marius De Wit
Subject: Re: [Soekris] Soekris net5501 box USB flashdrive not detected
On 15 Jul 2008, at 11:56, Marius De Wit wrote:
Dear Mailing list members
I
Dear Mailing list members
I am currently trying to get the USB port on my net5501 box to detect my USB
flashdrive. After plugging in my flashdrive, the light on the flashdrive
flashes indicating that the port is powered. However, I do not see anything
when running the lsusb command. Also
Thanks a lot, this BIOS setting works for us too.
Best regards,
Ingo
Marco Pamio wrote:
from BIOS:
set ConMute=Enabled
This allow GRUB to continue to boot if the serial cable is not connected.
For me it worked (I use ZeroShell (www.zeroshell.net) as Captive Portal).
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Marco Pamio
Hello,
We have a Soekris net5501 using a Slackware distribution on it. However,
if there is no serial cable attached, we encounter a boot delay of about
10 minutes. Is there a BIOS setting or something to circumvent this
behaviour?
Thanks in advance,
Ingo
Confirm , same happens here,
I shut down my box, and when plugged in, I waited like 5 min and nothing
happened.
Once I connected my null serial onto my monitor, it started to boot up.
Hopefully we get a hint of what is going on.
Hello,
We have a Soekris net5501 using a Slackware distribution
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Confirm , same happens here,
I shut down my box, and when plugged in, I waited like 5 min and nothing
happened.
Once I connected my null serial onto my monitor, it started to boot up.
Hopefully we get a hint of what is going on.
Hello,
We have a Soekris net5501
So, here is what happens:
I've switched from net4801 to a new net5501. I am using the same HDD as
before which worked find under 4801.
So regardless of the grub/lilo - is definitely something with 5501 - for
my case anyways. I have swapped then to net4801 and the thing runs fine -
it boots
I actually need two ports with vlan capability so I was leaning towards a Intel
Pro 100+
-Original Message-
From: Lonnie Abelbeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 11:06 PM
To: soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com
Cc: Ryan L. Faircloth
Subject: Re: [Soekris] Soekris
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?
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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
* Peter van Oord van der Vlies wrote:
Hi,
I have recently bought a new net5501, it works fine except when i give
the device a reboot then he doesn't boots anymore from the hdd.
I have seen that many people have the same problem. Is there anyone that
have a workaround or solutions for
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