Hi Eric, > I have spent a while digging around in the documentation and the > archives and have yet to find the answer I am looking for. I have a > PCEngines WRAP with a EMP-8602 (wireless card) & VPN1411 (VPN > Accelerator). I am using a 3.0GB microdrive. I am trying to replace my > Linksys WRT54G with this box. What is going to be the fastest/easiest > way to get it on LEAF on there? pxe? premade cf image? I like the pxe approach - but that does take quite a bit of tweaking to get things going the first time (unless you're used to setting things like that up). Make sure you have hdsupp.lrp as part of the packages loaded via pxe, then follow the instructions you get when entering help hdsupp (or if that no longer works, "cat /var/lib/lrpkg/hdsupp.help")
It's a real time saver if you need to set up several boxes at once, but for a single box, I'd go with a CF reader, a full checkout from CVS (or the contents of the CD image. Whichever way you go, make sure you enable a console on the serial port (by adding the proper settings to syslinux.cfg and to /etc/inittab). Otherwise, you'll have a hard time setting things up (since you won't have a console). See http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/buci-ide3.html for setting things up to boot from HD/CF and http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/buconsole.html for what changes one needs to make to use a serial console. Regarding your proposed setup - I assume the VPN1411 is the mini-pci card made by Soekris (using the Hi/fn 7955 chip). Please note that as far as I know, Bering uClibc does not bring have driver support for that card. It is possible that you can find drivers that compile against the kernel used by Bering uClibc. Last time I checked (which was a while ago) driver support for Linux was flaky at best. You'd most likely only want to use it for IPSec anyway - anecdotal evidence seems to suggest that this card does not help things if you're using it for a user-space app, since apparently, the penalty for crossing into kernel space for making the encryption eats up all of the gains from doing encryption in hardware. Please also note that there seem to be a problem with the BSD drivers (I bring that up because I seem to recall that there has been a port of the BSD crypto layer to Linux to add support for those cards) - see http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2006-October/011161.html maybe that's a problem that only concerns the soekris computers, but if not, you've been warned :-) I hope that helps, Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
