[Soekris] net5501 reset console speed

2007-08-16 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
I received my first net5501 (own many net4801's) It booted up at 19200 on the console just fine... I want to install m0n0wall, so I need to set the console to 9600. I then typed set conspeed 9600 reset Now I can't get to the console any longer. Using minicom I can't find a matching baud

Re: [Soekris] net5501 reset console speed

2007-08-17 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
Sorry, I wasn't more clear... I have tried many different baud rates in minicom, but the net5501 console does not respond. What I would like to do is reset my net5501 to a factory state so I can try again. How do I do that? Possibly since I typed: set conspeed 9600 instead of set

Re: [Soekris] net5501 reset console speed

2007-08-29 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
Update, A new net5501 board solved my problem. This time I typed set ConSpeed=9600 It must have been a fluke... m0n0wall runs like a champ on the net5501. Regards, Lonnie On Aug 16, 2007, at 11:16 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck wrote: I received my first net5501 (own many net4801's) It booted up

Re: [Soekris] net5501 VLAN creating MTU problems

2007-09-08 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck wrote: My goal today was to upgrade m0n0wall running on a net4801 with a shiny new net5501. I installed the generic-pc-1.231 (FreeBSD 4.11) on the net5501, replaced every sis with vr to create my new config.xml . vr0 - untagged LAN vr1 - untagged WAN vr2

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

Re: [Soekris] [m0n0wall] Replacing a net4801 with a net5501?

2007-12-29 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
On Dec 29, 2007, at 3:09 AM, Chris Boot wrote: Hi all, My net4801 that has been my router for a couple of years has not survived last night's thunderstorm. I was considering replacing it with a net5501, but does m0n0wall run properly on those? Can I just pop my 4801's CF into a 5501

Re: [Soekris] Gigabit on 5501-70?

2008-03-05 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
On Mar 5, 2008, at 1:10 AM, Chris Babcock wrote: Lonnie Abelbeck wrote: I have been using a net5501-70 with an Intel Pro 1000 GT PCI card, using m0n0wall (FreeBSD) with good results. The card fits like a glove. You have to remove the 5501 board, connect the 1000 GT NIC, and then slide

Re: [Soekris] 5501 USB to RS-232 Adapater.

2008-07-02 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
On Jul 2, 2008, at 11:36 AM, Louis Zirkel wrote: Juan Ignacio wrote: Well, I want to buy an USB to RS-232 Adapter but I see there are a lot of them. Can anybody recomended one?. I needed for Mac (iMac, Powerbook) and PC-Standard (Desktop,Notebook). I have one from IOgear that I

[Soekris] net5501, kexec warmboot hangs

2009-01-11 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
We (AstLinux project) recently implemented a warmboot (kexec) feature and appears to work well for various platforms, except for the net5501. There is no problem booting otherwise. Some facts... net5501, BIOS 1.33 and 1.33c Sandisk CF card, no other drives, default BIOS settings Linux

Re: [Soekris] net5501 lockup when sending alot of trafic between two NIC's

2010-07-27 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
On Jul 26, 2010, at 12:24 PM, Bjarke Istrup Pedersen wrote: Hey, I'm using a net5501 as router/gateway running linux, and has eth1 and eth2 bridged. When I transfer lange amounts of data from a computer on one of the NIC's to a computer located on the other NIC, (mostly using Windows

Re: [Soekris] Hardware crypto acceleration on Debian

2011-04-20 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
To add to the test data, in the 0.7 branch of AstLinux. http://www.astlinux.org/ http://astlinux.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/astlinux/branches/0.7/ All tests on a net5501-70, Linux Kernel 2.6.27.xx, these modules are loaded: -- geode-aes ocf cryptosoft cryptodev -- # modprobe -r cryptosoft #

Re: [Soekris] New model net6501 - To start shipping

2011-09-10 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
On Sep 6, 2011, at 8:18 PM, Soren Kristensen wrote: We recommend to use mSATA SSD for booting, and have ordered a number of Transcend mSATA SSD's in 2G SLC, 4G SLC, 16G MLC and 32G MLC sizes, those should be here in about 2 weeks. Ditto Congrats Soren, My situation is I have standardized

[Soekris] Transcend mSATA SSD Disk Geometry

2011-10-26 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
Greetings, I own many net4801's and net5501's and a developer on the AstLinux project. I'm about to order a net6501 for testing, but have a Transcend mSATA SSD Disk geometry question... AstLinux is distributed as a FAT16 (128MB) partition as a .img.gz image which is normally dd'ed to a CF

Re: [Soekris] LEDs on net6501

2011-11-03 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
On Oct 5, 2011, at 2:45 PM, Soren Kristensen wrote: Hi Jim List, Jim Pingle wrote: Hacking away on the net6501 and have it running pfSense. On the earlier models there was a bit of support in the FreeBSD kernel to drive the LED inside of geode.c Has anyone managed to control the LEDs

[Soekris] net6501 w/SMP

2011-11-06 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
Hopefully this is not a stupid question, but with SMP enabled in Linux kernel 2.6.35.13, why does the single core E6xx show two CPU's ? Using comBIOS 1.40h. More details below... Lonnie pbx ~ # uname -a Linux pbx 2.6.35.13-astlinux #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Nov 6 11:05:25 CST 2011

Re: [Soekris] net6501 w/SMP

2011-11-06 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
On Nov 6, 2011, at 3:46 PM, RB wrote: On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 14:40, Lonnie Abelbeck li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com wrote: Hopefully this is not a stupid question, but with SMP enabled in Linux kernel 2.6.35.13, why does the single core E6xx show two CPU's ? snip flags : fpu vme

Re: [Soekris] Soekris net6501-70: CPU Speed / Network throughput slow?

2011-11-09 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
Hi Hermann, I am getting better results than you are. I have a the 1MB/1GHz net6501-50, comBIOS 1.40h, and using it as a router... [ iperf -s ] --- [eth0/WAN # net6501-50 # eth2/LAN] --- [ iperf -c ... ] I get 515 Mbits/sec with the default iperf settings. 'top' is non-responsive during the

Re: [Soekris] Updating net6501 on Mac OS problem

2011-12-03 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
On Dec 3, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Tom Weustink wrote: Hello, I am using Zterm on Mac OS X (10.7.2) since afaik that is the only terminal program able to send data files. I tried sending using XMODEM as described on the wiki page for updating, and the file seems to arrive alright. But when I

Re: [Soekris] net6501 heat?

2012-01-22 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
On Jan 22, 2012, at 3:01 AM, Steve Mitchell wrote: I have a couple of net5501's that I need to upgrade, and have been playing around with some Jetway 1.8ghz dual core systems which are turning out to be a nightmare for heat. They don't crash or anything, but they end up sitting at about