Martin Hejl wrote: > 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 > > I attach a CF to a Dos or Windows box, copy all the LRPs and make the CF bootable. Then I boot the CF in an old box with an IDE to CF adapter. This box has a keyboard, screen and Netgear 311 NICs that use the same modules as the WRAP. I make all the configuration changes except the watchdog and serial console and test everything on this box. The last thing I do is make the changes for the serial console and watchdog then put this configured CF into the WRAP. Works on the first boot.
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