[Soekris] net5501 SSD ...um...story

2011-09-18 Thread Tom Huppi
Hi all, I have no real question or especially valuable advice...just some time as I compile kernel and world and dd /dev/random to spindle now so I am tapping out this note. That said, if anyone has any theories about things, I'd love to hear them. HW: net5501, cm9 radio, sata drive, 1.33c OS:

Re: [Soekris] net6501 + standard (not-rack) case -- how hot it will be?

2011-09-18 Thread Frank Schuhmann
he cpu companion chip and place the fan perhaps over the LAN card region of the top selection. Good luck ;) Kind regards and my best wishes Frank Schuhmann __ Hinweis von ESET NOD32 Antivirus, Signaturdatenbank-Version 6473 (20110918) __ E-Mail wurde geprü

Re: [Soekris] Death of a soekris

2011-09-18 Thread Alvar Kusma
> I wonder if any Soekris motherboard ever failed; any horror history > about that? Juvenile fails? Or only lightning, earthquake, fire ...? Not an horror story, but yes. On one net5501 eth0 works, but front panel LED not (RJ45 jack led is still OK). Stopped working after 3 months or so after

Re: [Soekris] Building an OpenBSD router

2011-09-18 Thread Nix
On 17 Sep 2011, mo...@rodents-montreal.org outgrape: >>> This is really easy with one of the BSDs or a source-based Linux >>> distro and much more unpleasant with a Linux-based binary package >>> manager. >> What are the caveats with a binary package manager (vs. >> source-based)? It seems like i

Re: [Soekris] Death of a soekris

2011-09-18 Thread Nix
On 18 Sep 2011, Marco Calamari spake thusly: > I wonder if any Soekris motherboard ever failed; any horror history > about that? Juvenile fails? Or only lightning, earthquake, fire ...? I just bought a second Soekris in case of that, 'cos with no Soekris I have no network connection and with no n

Re: [Soekris] Death of a soekris

2011-09-18 Thread Marco Calamari
On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 15:41 -0400, Daniel Savard wrote: > 2011/9/14 Pontus > 2011-09-13 15:01, Bob Bishop skrev: > > Before you do anything else, check that the insulation on > your power supply hasn't failed. > > > It turns out the PSU was oddly f