Re: [Soekris] Trouble upgrading bios

2007-10-10 Thread Matteo Basso - Net Stop Snc
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

Re: [Soekris] Trouble upgrading bios

2007-10-10 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
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)

Re: [Soekris] Trouble upgrading bios

2007-10-10 Thread RB
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] 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

Re: [Soekris] Throughput for various models?

2007-10-10 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
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

Re: [Soekris] Throughput for various models?

2007-10-10 Thread Chris Buechler
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

[Soekris] Net5501 Vlan support

2007-10-10 Thread Ryan L. Faircloth
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

2007-10-10 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
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

Re: [Soekris] Net5501 Vlan support

2007-10-10 Thread Mike Tancsa
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

[Soekris] Soekris net5501

2007-10-10 Thread Ryan L. Faircloth
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

Re: [Soekris] Soekris net5501

2007-10-10 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
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