Re: [Soekris] What is the meaning of BIOS parameter ConMute?

2007-10-19 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/10/19 09:51, Bill Maas wrote: as the other soekris-tech list members stubbornly refuse to go into your original question it's mentioned here: http://www.soekris.com/Software/changelog.txt ___ Soekris-tech mailing list

Re: [Soekris] What is the meaning of BIOS parameter ConMute?

2007-10-18 Thread Bent
Hi folks, I would like to wrap this thread up: I believe I have it working now. At least it hasn't failed on me yet when I (re)boot the animal. I tried Lilo in addition to GRUB, but it still failed. It started being reliable when I changed the network configuration from DHCP to static IP and it

Re: [Soekris] What is the meaning of BIOS parameter ConMute?

2007-10-18 Thread The Fungi
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:47:24PM -0400, der Mouse wrote: In my (admittedly limited) experience, this happens IFF spanning tree is enabled (both globally and on the affected port). Turning off spanning tree usually makes it all just magically start working. Agreed. And these days a majority

Re: [Soekris] What is the meaning of BIOS parameter ConMute?

2007-10-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
der Mouse wrote: In my (admittedly limited) experience, this happens IFF spanning tree is enabled (both globally and on the affected port). Turning off spanning tree usually makes it all just magically start working. Close: if spanning trees are enabled globally, are enabled on the affected

Re: [Soekris] What is the meaning of BIOS parameter ConMute?

2007-10-13 Thread Bill Maas
Hi Bent, Use Lilo, comes with no fuss. Bill On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 19:44 +0200, Bent wrote: Hi The first version of this post apparently never made it to the list, so here it is again. Since I wrote version 1 (2 days ago) I have had rather frustrating experiences with my 5501: It simply

[Soekris] What is the meaning of BIOS parameter ConMute?

2007-10-12 Thread Bent
Hi The first version of this post apparently never made it to the list, so here it is again. Since I wrote version 1 (2 days ago) I have had rather frustrating experiences with my 5501: It simply will not boot reliably without a serial console attached. As I write below I'm convinced this a flow

[Soekris] What is the meaning of BIOS parameter ConMute?

2007-10-10 Thread Bent
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