[Soekris] Power on/off and bios access

2010-04-19 Thread Alan
Hello, Is it possible to power off a net5501 box by software (eg: shutdown -h now), and maybe also power it back on using wake-on-lan? Is it possible to access the BIOS after the OS is running? I'm thinking of Sun machines, in which you can hit stop-a on the keyboard to interrupt the OS and go

[Soekris] GPIO pins for SD reader

2010-04-28 Thread Alan
for the OS (read-only to maximize durability), and then the SD card for writing (perhaps together with unionfs). Of course, with a Soekris one could easily use the internal USB header instead. Links: http://nuwiki.openwrt.org/oldwiki/OpenWrtDocs/Customizing/Hardware/MMC http://duff.dk/sd/ Alan

Re: [Soekris] Net5501, net-snmp, flashdist

2010-05-11 Thread Alan
filesystem, while they will be really writing to /dev/shm (which is ram based). This requires patching the kernel. Alan 2010/5/12 Stephen Melvin mel...@zytek.com: Not sure if this will help, but I have a somewhat similar arrangement on a Soekris box running FreeBSD 6.3 booting off a CF device

[Soekris] Temperature in net5501-70

2010-06-02 Thread Alan
? Where can I find an appropriate heatsink? By the way, I'm using a sensors.conf file from the net801, I don't have a customized one, does anybody have a customized one for the net5501? Thanks. Alan ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech

Re: [Soekris] Temperature in net5501-70

2010-06-04 Thread Alan
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Erhard Schwenk eschw...@fto.de wrote: Alan wrote: How about heatsinks? I'm thinking about these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835708009 I could use 4 for the CPU and 1 for the CS5536, but I'm not sure how well they will perform

Re: [Soekris] Temperature in net5501-70

2010-06-11 Thread Alan
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Alan lameventa...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 2:52 AM, Darrick Hartman dhart...@djhsolutions.com wrote: On 06/04/2010 12:45 PM, Michael Proto wrote: I have a net5501-70 with 512Mb of ram, 8Gb sandisk cf, a mini-pci AR5008 wifi, and a Digium TDM422

Re: [Soekris] Soekris net5501-70 crash a lot

2010-09-18 Thread Alan
thinking that a heatsink on the wifi cards chipsets might help. You might want to try that too and let us know if it helps. Alan 2010/9/19 JOORIS Emmanuel ejoo...@imaginnov.com: 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

Re: [Soekris] Soekris net5501-70 crash a lot Temperature

2010-09-28 Thread Alan
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

Re: [Soekris] Soekris net5501-70 crash a lot Temperature

2010-09-30 Thread Alan
-Power-Adapter-1002HA-1000HA/dp/B002TSMKEU Thanks for your help. Please don't hijack this thread, just start a new one. Alternatively you can read the browse the archive or read the wiki, this is a trivial matter that has been discussed dozens of times before. Alan

Re: [Soekris] Soekris net5501-70 crash a lot Temperature

2010-10-11 Thread Alan
this a few months ago (no wifi drivers loaded but hardware in), and still got crashes. But anyway, I would like to encourage Jan and others to experiment all posibilities, we need more people to figure out what is going on. Alan ___ Soekris-tech mailing

Re: [Soekris] boot net5501 from harddisk when CF is present

2011-11-26 Thread Alan
My net5501 currently runs from an IDE harddisk, however I would like to migrate to a 4G CF card and use nanobsd. The problem is that if I put the CF card in the slot the net5501 won't boot from the harddisk, which I need it to in order to copy the image onto the CF card. I tried playing

Re: [Soekris] net 6501: soft boot

2011-11-26 Thread Alan
But please note that a full new comBIOS release will be available soon, probably late Sunday. That release will also include USB boot Would it be possible to enable USB boot in the net5501 via firmware upgrade? That would be excellent. ___

Re: [Soekris] net5501 inexplicable crashes under load and using wlan - mystery solved

2012-04-03 Thread Alan
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Attila Kinali att...@kinali.ch wrote: I finaly got the time to work on this again and got my net5501 working without crashes even under heavy load and using wlan at full power. At least not within 24h. Great that someone is working on this, but 24 hours is not

Re: [Soekris] net5501 inexplicable crashes under load and using wlan - mystery solved

2012-04-08 Thread Alan
Looking though the archieves I found two reported issues, both on Linux. 1) The thread in Sept/Oct 2010, concluding with Andrey Safonov reporting the Linux VIA VT6105M driver to have bug, and how to fix it: http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2010-October/016884.html

Re: [Soekris] Bridging OpenBSD

2012-04-30 Thread Alan
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Paul Lavender p...@lavender-fam.net wrote: I know the purists are grumbling that this is for other forums but it is more interesting than flame wars about capacitors on the pcb :) Since this mailing list is about Soekris devices, I think a possible solution for

Re: [Soekris] Strange POST in 5501

2012-06-01 Thread Alan
I have the same output in mine, haven't noticed it until now. I'm using combios 1.33c. On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Marco Calamari marc...@dada.it wrote: I have a 5501 loaded with a SATA hdu, a Viking ADSL PCI  card and an Atheros 5212 minipci wifi card. No problem by now, thanks to a 3A

Re: [Soekris] accessing usb card from net5501

2012-06-23 Thread Alan
This has nothing to do with Soekris, please ask somewhere else. On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Jamshaid Anwar jimy4u2...@gmail.com wrote: hellow i have successfully installed astlinux image on net5501, now in order to write things on system, i was trying to make this usb port work. i plug a

Re: [Soekris] OpenBSD disk transfer speed - net5501/6501

2012-06-28 Thread Alan
The advise that you were so quick to discard should apply to OpenBSD too. Whatever options you use in your fstab applies on a filesystem level and won't affect your dd test unless you operate on the filesystem instead of the block device. Anyway, just for your reference, this is what I get in my

Re: [Soekris] Smarter OS install from BIOS?

2012-08-23 Thread Alan
would much rather have the basic things implemented in the BIOS first, such as booting from a USB device. Is there any progress with that Soren? Alan ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Soekris] Smarter OS install from BIOS?

2012-08-24 Thread Alan
I would much rather have the basic things implemented in the BIOS first, such as. Alan Hello Alan, would you explain me please more exactly the points, that you´ll prefer first to be implemented in the Bios? I mean what directly you mean the basic things Best regards Frank

Re: [Soekris] Net5501 cases and temperatures

2014-02-01 Thread Alan
I just want to say that I do appreciate the information that Alvar provided, even if some people think its just a rant from a disappointed user. It is true that some people are happily using their Soekris device without any problem, but others like me are disappointed and would hardly buy another

[Soekris] Not possible to boot from usb

2015-10-15 Thread Alan
gt;, combios is not open source, so all we can do is wait. Is this being worked on? -- Alan ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech

Re: [Soekris] Anyone know what JP3 does on net5501?

2008-02-13 Thread Alan Watson
How about a WikiManual? Everyone contribute? Doesn't sound too hard to me ... Okay, but who's going to do the Vulcan mind meld with Soren? Alan ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo