Re: [Soekris] net6501 (Red Light Of Death) debugging
Harald Welte [lafo...@gnumonks.org] wrote: > hi chirs, > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 06:37:16PM -0800, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > > > Solder up a new CPU and you will likely have a working unit... > > Do you know something that I don't? From following the list archives > and other resources, it seemed that nobody really knew what was going > on. Sure, there was some speculation (I would almost call it conspiracy > theory) about this bug being similar to the "Intel C2000" bug that hit > Cisco and others. However, net6501 uses E6xx.. > Yeah it's just a half assed guess based on the known issues with the C2000 line and the determination from Soekris that the boards are unrepairable. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 (Red Light Of Death) debugging
> That's it for now. Maybe this is useful to share. At this point I'm > not sure yet, if this will lead anywhere. > > When I find another timeslot, I want to compare a not-yet-broken board > with one that exhibits the problem. > Solder up a new CPU and you will likely have a working unit... ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Dying net6501 servers
Christopher Hilton [ch...@vindaloo.com] wrote: > I can???t move to Banana Pi today because I won???t move off of OpenBSD. > Having said that it???s not an issue for me because I moved my Net6501 into > the background about a year ago over health concerns I saw here. I replaced > it with a 1U SuperMicro Atom. The power draw is similar but the machine seems > to be a bit more rugged. > The u-boot in the OpenBSD ports tree has BananaPi and BananaPro support. There are also miniroot images with the u-boot already placed. Considering that allwinner H3 and A64 should both work under openbsd/armv7 under -current, you should be able to use the newer boards now, as well. You definitely want -current and not 6.0 release for Cortex-A7. Chris ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net5501: FreeBSD ipfw and the elusive 75Mbps throughput
Andrew Atrens [and...@atrens.ca] wrote: > BUGS > The vr driver always copies transmit mbuf chains into longword-aligned > buffers prior to transmission in order to pacify the Rhine chips. If > buffers are not aligned correctly, the chip will round the supplied > buffer address and begin DMAing from the wrong location. This buffer > copying impairs transmit performance on slower systems but cannot be > avoided. On faster machines (e.g. a Pentium II), the performance > impact > is much less noticeable. This is not true for the version of the chip included with Soekris and PC Engines boxes, nor is it true for the OpenBSD or FreeBSD drivers. OpenBSD's vr driver has interrupt mitigation and hw vlan tagging that FreeBSD does (did?) not. Both enable hw checksum capability for IPv4. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501-30 max throughput
ML mail [mlnos...@yahoo.com] wrote: I am using OpenBSD 5.1, would their be any performance gains in upgrading to 5.4 or 5.5? Btw yes I checked again and the interface is really in 1000baseT. Yes ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 won't start anymore
Eivind Eide [xeno...@gmail.com] wrote: I removed everything but the board (putting it on a wooden table) and also tried another power supply. Same result. Anything else? Time to contact Soekris Europe...? Sounds like the same problems the net5501 had that the ALIX didn't. Luckily there's pcengines.ch/apu.htm ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] soekris 4801 and pfsense 2.x
chahid ouarzoun [chahid.ouarz...@gmail.com] wrote: Hello guys, can some one give me benchmark or share experience with an installation of soekris 4801 using pfsense 2.x. i planned use it for 30 pc and 30 ip phones + 3 wan connection using load balancing. does the soekris 4801+case_lan1621_boardhttp://soekris.eu/shop/net4801/net4801_48_board_and_case_lan1621_board_en.html will support all this traffic ? The 4801 is very limited and realistically scales up to 4kpps to 10kpps depending on the OS. The pfsense web interface is very heavy and modern versions don't even run on boxes like the 4801 due to RAM limitations. You are better off with a 5501 or 6501 box. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 : CPU architecture ?
Wesley PA4WDH [pa4...@yahoo.com] wrote: I just received my 6501 and i don't have any disks yet. However, i'm able to boot into 32bit 64bit linux kernels and i'm able to enable/disable SMP. The kernel version will be 2.6.37 with some Gentoo patches. Since i can't yet use it for what i planned to do with it i'm happy to do some performance testing. Anything that doesn't take too much disk space or requires installation of additional packages is possible. Just keep in mind that whatever i boot, userspace will always be 32bit. If it's really nescessary i can see if i can change that but i rather not. Any test suggestions ? There is no advantage to 64bit on this box unless forward-looking binary compatibility is on your list. Some Linux distros are only coming in 64bit flavors now. The pointers are twice as long, 64bit applications tend to be larger, use more memory, and have more data to move around so 64bit mode can actually be slower. There are features to potentially make 64bit mode faster like the extra registers but the automatic register remapping happens in 32bit mode, too. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Recent netbsd-6 vr changes, trouble at boot
Improvements here: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/pci/if_vr.c Greg Troxel [g...@work.lexort.com] wrote: I have a net5501 that used to run NetBSD 5. I updated to -6, and it's been fine for quite a while. I just updated to -6 from yesterday, which includes an improvement to vr(4) to not reset the chip when going in and out of promiscuous mode. (Before there was a ~1s hiccup when running/exiting tcpdump.) When I updated, I rebooted, and the machine did not come back onto the net. Visiting it and experimenting, I found: booting from applying power worked fine rebooting led to the system being up but vr0 being nonfunctional on the up/no-vr0 system, running tcpdump printed a message: vr0: using force reset command. and then it worked ok. This is the change that I think might be relevant: sys/dev/pci/if_vr.c 1.112 via patch Reset the vr(4) chip if the tx engine gets stuck. No need to do a full reset when enabling/disabling promiscuous mode. [taca, ticket #783] I wonder if anyone else is seeing this. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy. -- Einstein ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Clock losing time on Net5501
Lars Nood?n [lars.noo...@gmail.com] wrote: On 02/05/2013 01:54 PM, Soren Kristensen wrote: Hi Lars, Lars Nood?n wrote: I have a Net5501 that seems to be losing 90 seconds off the system clock when it is turned off for a while. Is there anything that can or should be done to fix this? That need to be qualified with time to be able to say if it's out of spec Thanks. How would I check that? I have ntpd starting with to set the time immediately at startup. But without that, I get log entries like these: Feb 1 08:43:33 net5501 ntpd[30196]: adjusting local clock by 94.899672s Am I interpreting that correctly? Do you start ntpd with -s? If not, it continually adjusts the clock to bring it up to current time, in relatively small increments. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] OpenBSD Installation issue on net6501
You'll need a custom kernel with this device ID added to the AHCI driver. I'll send it to you in private to test. -- Great men are almost always bad men -- Lord Acton's Corollary ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] 5501-70 rip
Try a new power supply. Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz [luis.daniel.lu...@gmail.com] wrote: helo i took out FC to do an image and i return it back, after that, i got the error led in red always. I plug the console wire and not output. What can i do? ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501, Linux, SSD/kernel/hardware failure?
Chris Wilson [chris-soek...@aptivate.org] wrote: But after a power off (not just a hard reset) the drive is fine again! Some people are seeing issues with Debian kernels (like this one) and multiple drives appearing to fail at the same time, but working fine after a reboot: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=625922 So I suspect there's nothing wrong with the drive; it may be a firmware bug, but I was unable to apply firmware fixes using OCZ's updater for Linux. Has anyone seen anything like this? Anyone got a sense for whether it could be a hardware bug with the AHCI controller or BIOS on the net6501? The drive wasn't responding. It's likely to be the drive itself, not some failure on the controller or magic in the wire. SSDs are not the ultra-reliable machines they're made out to be, in my experience. The firmware probably crashed. And if that's what happened, it'll happen again under certain conditions -- that is until you get an update that breaks the firmware in some new and bizarre way. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501: Timer problems with Debian, no HPET support detected
Darryl Miles [darryl-mailingli...@netbauds.net] wrote: Peter Neubauer wrote: Linux depends on an ACPI BIOS to provide configuration for the HPET. The net6501 does not support ACPI, so Linux does not use the HPET. Great news on the patch. What is the reason for not having ACPI ? There is no use for it on the net6501. The BIOS implementation is a lot of work. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Fwd: mSATA failure on 6501 w/ OpenBSD 5.0
here is the key error message. it means your whole ahci disk has disappeared (and anything you can still run is happening from cache.) -- ahci0: stopping the port, softreset slot 31 was still active. ahci0: failed to reset port during timeout handling, disabling it -- likely a reboot will fix it. this is a known problem with ahci driver and intel ahci controllers. the failed to reset port and softreset slot was still active problems become really obvious once you start maxing out disks on an ahci controller with a softraid array. they rarely present problems in normal use! but, the SSD sata drive may evoke different behavior for some reason. i think continuous runs of iogen over a RAID1 array might bring out similar issues all by itself, even with regular hard disks dragonflybsd's port of openbsd's ahci driver has incorporated several of workarounds for problems directly related to this. (reset this when that happens, etc..) that might be a good place to start looking, if you can easily reproduce the problem then you would know quickly when a ported fix from their driver has helped. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Fwd: mSATA failure on 6501 w/ OpenBSD 5.0
Christopher LILJENSTOLPE [soek...@cdl.asgaard.org] wrote: Greetings, Any thoughts as to how to get around this - it's only been up for a few days. Rebooting my home router every 24 hours is not spouse endearing behavior :) port over some workarounds from dragonfly, or just figure out what is causing enough disk access to trigger this behavior and use a different machine for it -- There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. - E. Hemingway ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] What's the difference between OpenSoekris and flashrd?
Ed Flecko [edfle...@gmail.com] wrote: 2.) Am I right so far? Once you've written the image to your CF, you just plug it back into your Soekris (I'm guessing), but how do you actually configure the Soekris (i.e., set up NIC interfaces, configure PF, etc.)? Edit config files in /etc 3.) Do you, somehow, configure your image in advance of writing it to the CF or you do that after you've written it to the flash??? This can be done after the new system is booted or you can mount the /etc partition of the openbsd.vnd file and do it before hand I'm confused about this process, so if someone could shed a little light on the steps that need to be taken, that would be great! The flashrd faq might help. What I do is edit openbsd.vnd and then test it in an emulator before pushing the image out to systems. -- the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] vr interface problem
openbsd 4.6 has a reliable if_vr driver D?nial Olsen [...@ft.fo] wrote: Hi, I just had a weird problem with two of my 5501 boxes, running OpenBSD 4.3, connected to the same switch. The problem was that two of the four connected vr interfaces seemingly stopped working. I tried connecting a crossed cable between the boxes and also between the boxes and my laptop, but tcpdump on the 5501 did not see any incoming traffic - only outgoing. After some testing the 5501s were rebooted and then the interfaces worked as normal. This behaviour was perhaps triggered by the switch, to which they are connected, lost power a few times over the course of a couple of hours. My issue doesn't seem new as these two threads show: http://72.32.12.210/archives/openbsd/2007-10/0886.html http://www.nabble.com/Re:-soekris-5501-wierd-vr%284%29-maybe-PHY-problem-%28was-Re:-man-dhcpd.interfaces--%29-td15694468.html Does anyone know if there is a solution for this problem? Is this solved in a newer version of OpenBSD or FreeBSD perhaps? -- D?nial Olsen ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- Trying to bring taste and skill into a branch of artistic endeavor which had sunk to the lowest possible depths. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Replace an ADSL modem-router
Lars Nooden [l...@umich.edu] wrote: Chris Cappuccio wrote: this is essentially the same as an ultra-cheap versatek 170p modem... Not at all the same capabilities. Compare: http://www.traverse.com.au/downloads/adsl/vikingdat_03.pdf http://www.versatek.com/products/vxver170p.htm Point to a HOWTO for running the 170p with NetBSD, OpenBSD or a Linux. I'll write one. Here it is: 1. Plug in the ethernet cable 2. ifconfig YourEthernet0 192.168.0.2/24 3. Telnet or HTTP to 192.168.0.1 4. Configure VPI/VCI and mode (RFC 1483 bridging, PPPoA, PPPoE, etc...) 5. Party like it's 1999 ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Replace an ADSL modem-router
Lars Nooden [l...@umich.edu] wrote: Chris Cappuccio wrote: Lars Nooden [l...@umich.edu] wrote: Chris Cappuccio wrote: this is essentially the same as an ultra-cheap versatek 170p modem... Not at all the same capabilities. Compare: http://www.traverse.com.au/downloads/adsl/vikingdat_03.pdf http://www.versatek.com/products/vxver170p.htm Point to a HOWTO for running the 170p with NetBSD, OpenBSD or a Linux. I'll write one. Here it is: 1. Plug in the ethernet cable 2. ifconfig YourEthernet0 192.168.0.2/24 3. Telnet or HTTP to 192.168.0.1 4. Configure VPI/VCI and mode (RFC 1483 bridging, PPPoA, PPPoE, etc...) 5. Party like it's 1999 Hmm. You've skipped the part about loading the 170p with OpenWRT, Tomato, PFSense or something similar... The Broadcom ADSL chipset on the 170p is the same chipset used on the realtek/adsl combo card. I can't tell if you're trolling me or if these things are really supported by some open crap. It's not trivial since the 170p has something like 2mb flash and 1mb ram. The ATM stuff is all emulated in software by the Linux kernel with the 170p default software but I think the ADSL chip bundle is probably some proprietary blob. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
[Soekris] flashrd - New OpenBSD installer for flash
Hi, It's my birthday, so I decided to release a little rewrite of flashdist that I've been working on. It addresses the two major shortcomings of flashdist (in light of the fact that an 8GB usb key costs $20 now) First, it installs a _complete_ OpenBSD system, that runs in read-only (or read-write if you want) mode. There's no 'distribution lists' to keep track of nor custom build environment. It's a full, almost default system with default /etc/rc (ok, a bootstrap script does have to run before /etc/rc.) Second, you can upgrade the system just by copying a few files to the flash (and keep multiple versions on the same flash.) Check out the home page and FAQ if it sounds useful to you. http://www.nmedia.net/flashrd/ http://www.nmedia.net/flashrd/flashrd-faq.html Also there are ready-made i386 and amd64 disk images to try, see http://www.nmedia.net/flashrd/images/ They run under qemu too. You can even pack up an existing, running server with flashrd (just mount it to /mnt and run ./flashrd /mnt) and create images of that for whatever purpose. (I thought the idea was cool, anyways.) Chris ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] CPUTYPE for net5501 and FreeBSD 7.2
it would be interesting to get comparisons to 486, and original pentium optimizations too, to see if these fancy options are worth the effort and time at all. Maxim Khitrov [mkhit...@gmail.com] wrote: 2009/4/23 Alexander Vyrlanovich iskan...@apple-park.kiev.ua: CPUTYPE=k6-3 in make.conf on my net5501 (FreeBSD 7.1) Yep, I think this is the best option until gcc is updated. I ended up trying to build world with CPUTYPE=athlon and on first boot was greeted by a bunch of exited on signal 4 and Illegal instruction: 4 messages. Now rebuilding everything with k6-3. I still don't know if pentiumpro is a better option, maybe I'll do some benchmarks later on. ?? :) ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- I'm not aware of any specific concerns, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said, according to Reuters. Whitman added he was speaking generally and not talking about specific incidents. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] missing /dev/gpio0
cd /dev ./MAKEDEV gpio Thomas Elsgaard [thomas.elsga...@gmail.com] wrote: Hi soekris-tech list I am trying to get OpenBSD 4.4 and 'gpioctl' working with an 4801, but so far without any luck.. To the /etc/rc.securelevel i have added: /usr/sbin/gpioctl -c 20 out pp; # error LED But, gpioctl complains about /dev/gpio0 missing ?? Does anybody have any hints about what can be wrong or how i can get gpioctl to work? ///Thomas ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- Only failure makes us experts ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Want to build a router
Bill Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 12:51 -0400, Stephen Brown Jr wrote: You may find that you prefer one of the BSDs. I was just sitting here playing with OpenBSD and it's been a hair raising experience so far :/ Maybe this will reassure you: tho OpenBSD approach towards new (Linux) users seems to be that only if you manage to get past the BSD disklabel and the least user-friendly implementation of fdisk in existence, areth thou worthy of operating our Softe Ware. The fdisk implementation is easy. Just answer 'yes' to 'Do you want to use the hwole disk?' and you don't even have to look at it. And, if you want to create multiple partitions, it isn't hard to figure out. That is, if you already understand the concepts (the same ones that you may have worked with using fdisk under DOS.) The disklabel implementation is somewhat tedious, until you know some of the shortcuts documented through examples in the install faq (faq4) Which you apparently have, so congratulations;). The good news is that after that, in OpenBSD everything is infinitely more intuitive and simple than it is with Linux. Amen brother. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] cloning CF cards on OpenBSD 4.3
if you want to copy between cards of different sizes, check out growimg.sh from flashdist which handles fdisk, disklabel, newfs, and tar file copy it assumes a specific disklabel layout, but you could easily change that Lars Nood??n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got an OpenBSD 4.3 system on 1GB CF that I would like to clone to another CF. What are some good/easy methods? dd? Regards, -Lars ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- Too many clocks, not enough time (Al. Einstein) ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net4801 + openbsd + serial device
While we're at it, there is no RJ-45. It's RJ48. RJ45 is 8 pin, 2 conductor. What everyone calls RJ45 should have been a variant of RJ48. der Mouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This converter uses an DB-9 based serial device, It's a trivial thing in one sense...but surely this should be DE-9. I've never seen a DB-9 and doubt they exist; what's commonly miscalled a DB-9 is actually a DE-9. The letter after the D indicates the shell size, and the DB shell is the 25-pin size. (The other sizes: DA is the 15-pin size used for peecee game ports and AUI Ethernet; DC is a 37-pin size that isn't used for much in my experience; DD is the three-row 50-pin size used for SCSI by the Sun-3s. I'm sure each has plenty of other uses, too. I don't know why the letters aren't in order; I speculate the DE size was an afterthought.) Not that this is a reflection on you; it's a very common mistake - even many vendors of D-shell hardware make it, and I used to make it myself until I got the terminology straight in my head. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- Too many clocks, not enough time (Al. Einstein) ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net4801 + openbsd + serial device
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_jack der Mouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While we're at it, there is no RJ-45. It's RJ48. RJ45 is 8 pin, 2 conductor. What everyone calls RJ45 should have been a variant of RJ48. I thought what's usually called RJ45 isn't RJ-anything because the RJ stuff is for particular ways of putting POTS pairs on those connectors, and thus if you're not doing POTS over the lines it's not RJxx. (Well, it might be fair to speak of RJ45 - or RJ48 - _connectors_, as in, the connectors appropriate for RJwhatever, ut then put them to another use, much as one could speak of a DB25 as being an RS232 connector even if one then uses it for a parallel port or something.) Is my impression of RJ wrong? /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- Too many clocks, not enough time (Al. Einstein) ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] 4G CF limitation on 45xx and 48xx?
Jon Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this actually the case here, or can 45xx and 48xx happily accept 4G? I'm hoping that this is just a case of old documentation, as when the 45xx and 48xx came out, I don't even believe there was a CF 4G. there's 16GB CF and 32GB CF available these days ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] mounting /dev in RAM in OpenBSD
Chris Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Openssh needs to write to some devices. (Don't know which ones..) sshd wants to change permissions on /dev/ttyXX when you login so that only you can write to it (or your group) - i originally dealt with this in flashdist by making /dev/ttyXX symbolic links to the actual devices at writeable (mfs) /var/run/dev/ttyXX. unfortunately, sshd uses login() to write your login entries to utmp, which fails if ttyname() decides that your device is not an actual character device. this was a problem with flashdist, symbolic links caused ttyname() to fail so utmp was always empty - and then i moved /dev to full mfs ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] PXE Installation of OpenBSD 4.2 on Soekris 4801
at the boot prompt, you need to use the following commands to enable the serial terminal: set tty com0 stty com0 19200 and in /etc/ttys, tty00 should look like this: tty00 /usr/libexec/getty std.19200 vt100 on secure Lars Nood??n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working with a new Soekris 4801 w/256MB RAM and wonder about getting OpenBSD installed so that the system boots. Once I can get to SSH, I'm home free. Netboot using PXE and tfptd goes well: I've gotten things set up so I can do the net boot + install and that whole installation procedure appears to run flawlessly. However, when I get to booting the installed system, things just appear to hang. Here is the output from the serial connection just before that happens: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lars/net4801.txt Where can I find info about how OpenBSD needs to be configured differently from your average tower/rack mounted system so as to boot from CF with no HD? Regards -Lars ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- You were about to change the channel when God healed you -- Benny Hinn ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] 4501 + OpenBSD -STABLE: fast installs, slowwwwwww upgrades
That's because openbsd mounts the filesystem in asychronous mode on install (like linux ext2fs runs all the time) but does not on upgrade (so that you don't potentially lose significant amounts of data in a crash) If you aren't using asychronous mounts, a lot more data gets written when the filesystem changes. Combine this with the Elan SC420's PIO mode for data transfers and you experience 3 hours of suffering, like you describe. If you can create a complete disk image that you write to the flash on upgrade, you will have a better experience. If you must use your flash like a hard disk, try and upgrade to a 4801 or 5501 where you can use DMA modes with the CF (and find a suitable high-speed flash that implements it, which yours might alreay do.) By the way, older 4801s don't have DMA wired to the CF port. C. Bensend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey folks, I have a 4501 running the latest ComBIOS (1.31b), booting OpenBSD 4.1-STABLE on a CF card. Everything works great. However, something I'm very curious about... When I choose the (I)nstall option in the OpenBSD installer, I can install a new -STABLE build of the OS from the CF card in about 24 minutes. That time includes formatting the CF and everything. If I choose (U)pgrade, it takes over 3 *hours* to install the same -STABLE build off the same CF card. As the tarballs are installing, I get the usual progress meter, but the larger ones time out over and over again, saying -- stalled --. Keep in mind, each time I test this, I have copied the entire distribution to the CF card, and have selected disk as the source of the tarballs. Nothing's going over the network whatsoever. Again, everything works perfectly when the OS is running. But I'm really, really curious to know why this happens. It _always_ completes successfully, the OS always runs fine, and I see no instabilities. I'd appreciate it if someone could give it a think, and offer any reasons... Thanks much! Benny ps: Dmesg follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ dmesg OpenBSD 4.1-stable (GENERIC) #25: Sun Aug 19 06:05:51 CDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: AMD Am486DX4 W/B or Am5x86 W/B 150 (AuthenticAMD 486-class) cpu0: FPU real mem = 66678784 (65116K) avail mem = 52539392 (51308K) using 844 buffers containing 3457024 bytes (3376K) of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 20/70/14, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf7840 pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.0 @ 0xf/0x1 pcibios0: pcibios_get_intr_routing - function not supported pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing information unavailable. pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc8000/0x9000 cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios) elansc0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 AMD ElanSC520 PCI rev 0x00: product 0 stepping 0.1, CPU clock 133MHz, reset 0 gpio0 at elansc0: 32 pins sis0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 NS DP83815 10/100 rev 0x00, DP83815D: irq 10, address 00:00:24:c0:04:ec nsphyter0 at sis0 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 PHY, rev. 1 sis1 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 NS DP83815 10/100 rev 0x00, DP83815D: irq 11, address 00:00:24:c0:04:ed nsphyter1 at sis1 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 PHY, rev. 1 sis2 at pci0 dev 20 function 0 NS DP83815 10/100 rev 0x00, DP83815D: irq 5, address 00:00:24:c0:04:ee nsphyter2 at sis2 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 PHY, rev. 1 isa0 at mainbus0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0/8 irq 14 wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0: SanDisk SDCFH-2048 wd0: 4-sector PIO, LBA, 1953MB, 4001760 sectors wd0(wdc0:0:0): using BIOS timings pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: PC speaker spkr0 at pcppi0 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pccom0: console pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo biomask f3c5 netmask ffe5 ttymask ffe7 pctr: no performance counters in CPU dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on wd0a rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302 ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] [Fwd: Re: Fedora 7 no drives visible]
can't you just pxe boot the OS and install like normal? this is sheer madness R Bruce Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because private mail was not what I expected from the list... just in case someone else has the same question... -- Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain === R Bruce Hoffman Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:19:32 -0400 From: R Bruce Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kannaiyan Natesan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Soekris] Fedora 7 no drives visible User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070615) Honestly... no. I am unable to share the details of that information... it's considered proprietary. And there is very little truely relevant information currently available on the web. Off the record... build an FC4 machine. Three partitions. First partition full root and install. Boot. Mount second partition as /duplicate, copy foundation to /duplicate. Screw with grub config to bring up /duplicate as root (boot into second partition.) Scrub to small system with essential services on /duplicate. Reboot back into first partition. Construct image files on third partition. Mount image file in loop device. Copy /duplicate parts to the mounted image file. Unmount. Copy image to CF card. Grub up the CF card. Pull out the CF card. Mount in Soekris. But this is just the beginning. You need to mess with the init.d scripts and Red Hat has specific ways of booting read only and shutdown's are a problem as is making ramdisk images available for certain writeable directories during normal operations. Kannaiyan Natesan wrote: Hi Bruce, Can you please let me know how you managed to run Fedora Core 4 onto CF and boot the soekris. I'm looking for similar solution for net 5501. Thanks. Regards, kannaiyan On 7/9/07, R Bruce Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have both 4801 and 5501 running with Fedora Core 4 from CF. I have noticed that during the attempted boot of Fedora 7, that there are no drives visible during the nash init script running from the initial ram disk image, nor during a non-initrd boot. No hda, no sda, no labels... Does anyone know what driver I might be missing here? I have tried the various ones that are listed from a search of the CS5536 and AMD stuff through the initrd image, (like , pata_cs5535.ko , 5530 and 5520) but I don't see anything in the modules that acknowledges the CF configuration like what happened in the FC4 versions. Is this just a matter of the 5536 being too new for Fedora? Or am I missing something else? -- Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain === R Bruce Hoffman ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain === R Bruce Hoffman ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- The lessons of history teach us - if they teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. - Paul Robinson ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Sandisk SDCFX-2048 in 4801
As DMA mode worked for you but Ultra-DMA mode did not, I would try to keep DMA mode enabled in the wd driver. That might be faster, or at least less CPU intensive, than PIO mode. Someone who cares to look at the spec can tell you if the unwired lines are relevant to DMA, Ultra-DMA, or both. Emilio Perea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 01:11:26PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/05/10 13:51, Soren Kristensen wrote: The net4801 added support for DMA on the CompactFlash from PCB rev 3, dated 040226. If you have an older board then you will need to tell the ATA driver to disable DMA, as it will detect that the disk support DMA but don't know it's not wired In OpenBSD, you do this with flags to the wd(4) driver. You can edit a kernel which is already built using the -e option to config(8); $ config -e -o newkernel bsd OpenBSD 4.1-current (GENERIC) #126: Mon May 7 12:43:41 MDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC Enter 'help' for information ukc change wd 42 wd* at wdc*|pciide* channel -1 flags 0x0 change [n] y channel [-1] ? flags [0] ? 0x0ff0 42 wd* changed 42 wd* at wdc*|pciide* channel -1 flags 0xff0 ukc quit If you build your own custom kernel, you can change this in the configuration file. The flags value I show here, 0x0ff0, disables DMA and UltraDMA and uses whichever PIO mode the device claims to support. Thanks Stuart, Graham, Rod and Soren! I didn't realize my board was not current. I really appreciate all your help. Emilio ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- It's beneficial to your health to try and believe a few impossible things before breakfast. -- Lewis Carroll ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
