Re: [Soekris] I see development of the net6801 has been dropped.

2015-11-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
local UPS for 12V boards: http://www.mini-box.com/micro-UPS-load-sharing -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by inc

Re: [Soekris] I see development of the net6801 has been dropped.

2015-11-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
hey're working out great. I also bought an OpenUPS2, but havn't had time to play with it yet. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to mal

Re: [Soekris] NanoBSD Reboot failure

2011-09-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
and the nanobsd.sh and assorted files have been updated to do this as far as I'm aware. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained

Re: [Soekris] Life expectancy of a compact flash?

2011-04-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 4da598a2.5080...@christiantena.net, Philip writes: Maybe logs could be written to a USB memory stick? Same issues apply and are often much worse on USB sticks. CF cards are targeted mainly at professional photographers these days, USB sticks are for consumers. -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: [Soekris] Life expectancy of a compact flash?

2011-04-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
important in the first place... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: [Soekris] Life expectancy of a compact flash?

2011-04-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
.) NanoBSD and Fifolog (both in FreeBSD) were both written to specifically avoid and when unavoidable, to optimize the write pattern for CF card longevity. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer

Re: [Soekris] FreeBSD 8 ?

2011-03-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
at the moment. Have you tried without polling ? Polling is a pretty crude hack which doesn't really get you that much when all the interfaces are on the same interrupt line... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer

Re: [Soekris] FreeBSD 8 ?

2011-03-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
to the small/embedded systems. Is that right, or should I expect things to just work? The only problem I have run into is that you need to make sure you have a fresh-ish bios on the soekris for a serial console to work reliably. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p

Re: [Soekris] net4521 install squeeze

2011-03-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message AANLkTi=6zOXUHFB+-3YOwo_X=xc-EWB0A=6fkhmyg...@mail.gmail.com, Javi er Reyna Padilla writes: Nice doc for FreeBSD, I am currently working with NanoBSD. sooo nice :-) You may also find this useful: http://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/build_options/ -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since

Re: [Soekris] net4526 for precision timing?

2011-01-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
the second serial port to talk to the GPS receiver. I have no idea where to find the TMR1IN pin, you will have to ask Soren to tell you. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never

Re: [Soekris] net4526 for precision timing?

2011-01-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 4d2f2393.6010...@earthlink.net, Curt Corder writes: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Looks like the path of least resistance would indicate I stick with the 4501. I think the 4526 may offer significant resistance: The flash is soldered in and not very big... -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: [Soekris] Repair?

2010-09-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
detected all memory. Then I was wondering if it was possible to have that repaired by Soekris or I simply should forget about this box and buy a new one? Send email to r...@soekris.com -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956

Re: [Soekris] Thrid Serial port on net5501 ?

2010-07-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
port. If you need a 3rd, use a USB-serial dongle -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: [Soekris] Faulty memory?

2010-07-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
that is the problem. If the problem persists with a known good power-supply, then suspect hardware trouble. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately

Re: [Soekris] mounting a net4801 board

2010-05-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
not to bend the PCB by tightening the screws too hard, and make sure that air can circulate behind the PCB. Mounting the PCB with for tiny wood-screws through four rubber grommets as standoff works great, but pretty much any kind of plastic-pipe will do. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog

Re: [Soekris] Power on/off and bios access

2010-04-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ Soekris-tech mailing

Re: [Soekris] Power on/off and bios access

2010-04-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 201004201937.o3kjblgu022...@host22.the-web-host.com, Scott Newell writes: And am I the the only one who wonders how Poul-Henning Kamp gets all of the knowledge about the double-secret Soekris features? :-) No you are not...BIOS dump and run strings over it? Occams razor would prefer

Re: [Soekris] Power to the net5501

2010-04-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
both as power input and output. Check the NET4801 manual for details. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: [Soekris] How to read net5501 sensors under FreeBSD 8

2010-03-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 4b95197c.9070...@kaarposoft.dk, Henrik /KaarPoSoft writes: Thank you very much for your observations! Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message 4b951495.3040...@kaarposoft.dk, Henrik /KaarPoSoft writes: But: Are the sensors wired and scaled the same way in net5501 and net4801

Re: [Soekris] powering a net5501 from a car battery

2010-02-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
highly recommend surfing the archived papers of the Stationary Battery Conference: http://www.battcon.com/ArchivePapers.htm It gives a much clearer idea of what is actual science and what is just handwaving. Surprising amounts of the latter... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog

Re: [Soekris] Does 2.5 1/6H hard disk fit in the net5501 standard case?

2010-02-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
slot, you could simply bolt the disk down over on that side of the cabinet by drilling four holes in the bottom of the cabinet. Or, for more interrim installation: a couple of shots with the glue-gun or a wad of double-stick tape... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p

Re: [Soekris] Soekris 5501 with SSD disks

2010-02-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
, because Sandisk likes to be able to buy flashchips there... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: [Soekris] Soekris 5501 with SSD disks

2010-02-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. If you mean allow blocks to get written *fast*, then no. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: [Soekris] Soekris 5501 with SSD disks

2010-02-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 4b69cd90.8080...@krotus.com, Jordan Share writes: On 2/3/2010 6:18 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Well, you can always partition the disk in half, and literally never write to the last half of the disk (which is what I thought Bob to be suggesting in his post). Again, that only works

Re: [Soekris] Soekris 5501 with SSD disks

2010-01-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 3f8f34c5-f376-46b0-9e2c-53a213d0e...@cq.nu, Bob Camp writes: Don't get an SSD thinking you're going to get speed. The 5501 will limit the throughput well below what you'd expect for an SSD. An SSD still does miracles for access time. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since

Re: [Soekris] Soekris 5501 with SSD disks

2010-01-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message af2fdca3-913c-4c7c-8508-d6cda5ac0...@freebsd.org, Joel Dahl writes : So, is anyone running a Soekris 5501 with a SSD disk? Yes, I've been running with an MTRON 32GB device for over a year. Nothing much to report, it works... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20

Re: [Soekris] 5501 ekstra ekstra com port

2009-12-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
have a gsm modem, where do i connect that? USB ? No reason to use a RS232 GSM modem, the usual 3G USB sticks will work. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute

Re: [Soekris] net5501 freebsd 8.0 compile options

2009-12-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 011c0fceacbb4e59a0945d7c10a92...@vectron.com, Bob Camp writes: Hi While we're on the topic. How many PPS's can a 48xx stamp at more or less the same time? One. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer

Re: [Soekris] net5501 freebsd 8.0 compile options

2009-12-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
, a counter and a bunch of latches shouldn't be too hard. I did this 10 years ago for the Xilings XC6200 Hot-1, but that does not exist anymore :-( If you make it open source I'll happily write the kernel driver for it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org

Re: [Soekris] net5501 freebsd 8.0 compile options

2009-12-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 065a73544e7648008d44f09c127b4...@vectron.com, Bob Camp writes: Hi My understanding is that the precision time stuff is specific to the 45xx boards. The magic hardware that does the time stamping is not present on the 55xx boards. You are absolutely correct. -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: [Soekris] net5501 freebsd 8.0 compile options

2009-12-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 4b27c5ac.9070...@wsg.net, David E. Cross writes: I thought it was in the CPU itself. Seems a shame that AMD would remove that :( It is, but it is a different CPU. The 45xx has the Elan CPU, the 48xx and 55xx has (different) Geodes. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog

Re: [Soekris] GPIO control of SW1(Reset Button) on 5501 with OpenBSD

2009-12-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 4b24d1a7.1010...@gmail.com, Lars Nooden writes: Lars Nooden wrote: Or if that information is not available, which pc87366 pin is it? I don't think it is one of the pc87366 pins, I think it is one of the pins on the Geode Companion chip. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: [Soekris] Trouble building nanobsd

2009-11-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
the customize functions, in all likelyhood one of them fails and terminates the nanobsd build. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately

Re: [Soekris] POST cycles on 5501 when disk spins up

2009-11-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
of the power supplies has become weaker with age (either the external brick, or the internal converter), [...] Very likely explanation. Try another brick first. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3

Re: [Soekris] GPIO net4501

2009-11-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris

Re: [Soekris] FreeBSD 8 on net5501?

2009-09-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 4aa421b4.4000...@menhennitt.com.au, Graham Menhennitt writes: Is anybody running FreeBSD 8-current on a net5501? Any problems? Any special kernel config parameters? Any tricks I need to know? I am. Same as always. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p

Re: [Soekris] Readdressing the cooling question....

2009-07-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
in their firmware. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ Soekris-tech

Re: [Soekris] SSD drives

2009-06-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
of 5501's with MTRON MOBI-3000 32GB SSDs. Works like you would expect. Beware of camera grade SSD's, they are just CF cards in a bigger box. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never

Re: [Soekris] Net4801 and SSD?

2009-06-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
a repackaged CF card or other camera grade stuff. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: [Soekris] CPUTYPE for net5501 and FreeBSD 7.2

2009-04-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
CPU_SOEKRIS The important bit is the last two. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: [Soekris] CPUTYPE for net5501 and FreeBSD 7.2

2009-04-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. It doesn't make enough difference for me to bother... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: [Soekris] Thinking about an SSD

2009-03-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list

Re: [Soekris] Trouble building NanoBSD image

2009-03-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
the error is earlier in your logfile, we build with make -j parallelism and that generally means that you can trust the error to the be last output. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe

Re: [Soekris] Power savings

2009-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
45W = 720 DKR (= USD125 = EUR97) Optimistically you save 95W = 1520 DKR (= USD262 = EUR204) But obviously, this varies a lot according to your electricity rate. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD

Re: [Soekris] E1 to 30 analog phones

2009-02-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 7aa8bd9d0902220046x24d390a3j8b43f394540ee...@mail.gmail.com, Pete Kay writes: Is it possible to ue Soekris to connect one E1 card with 30 analog phones? I think the soekris has plenty CPU power for the task, but one PCI slot is just not enough... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX

Re: [Soekris] OT: 12V UPS system, rackmount enclosure for batteries

2009-02-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ Soekris-tech mailing

Re: [Soekris] OT: 12V UPS system, rackmount enclosure for batteries

2009-02-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 44044.1234860...@critter.freebsd.dk, Poul-Henning Kamp writes: I just noticed this one, which may be relevant: http://www.mini-box.com/picoUPS-100-12V-DC-micro-UPS-system-battery-backup-system?sc=8category=981 -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org

Re: [Soekris] net5501 GPIO

2009-02-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 20090204155251.039c7...@ingeniware.com, Sergey Manucharian writes: On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:27:18 + Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: The net5501 has the exact same GPIO facilities as the net4801. Well, maybe from userspace they are supposed to have the same

Re: [Soekris] net5501 GPIO

2009-02-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
with net4501/4801 GPIOs. But the net5501 uses different hardware - CS5536 chip. I could not find any information about using its GPIOs. The net5501 has the exact same GPIO facilities as the net4801. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC

Re: [Soekris] switch away from geode?

2009-01-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
, that clearly pushes the mainstream chips in the direction we want for embedded and appliance use. I talked with Søren a couple of days ago and he certainly has plans, but what they are, we'll just have to wait and see. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p

Re: [Soekris] net5501 link problems

2009-01-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
depending on packet sizes, e.g. size=100: 22% lost size=1400: 90% lost Make sure your cable and other hardware is OK. Electrical problem very often manifest themselves by the longer packet, the more trouble. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP

Re: [Soekris] net5501 link problems

2009-01-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ Soekris-tech mailing

Re: [Soekris] PCI-based SATA

2008-12-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
in the TX4's bios-rom does not run. I have TX4 card waiting for Soren whenever he cares to pick it up. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can

Re: [Soekris] Max load for JP5 connections on Net5501 and 4801?

2008-12-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], =?UTF-8?B?TGFycyBOb29kw6lu?= writes: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], =?u tf-8?Q?Lars_D=2E_Nood=C3=A9n?= writes: What is the max current load allowed (or recommended) to be drawn on pins for the GPIO on JP5? Source 3mA, sink 6mA

Re: [Soekris] Max load for JP5 connections on Net5501 and 4801?

2008-12-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], =?u tf-8?Q?Lars_D=2E_Nood=C3=A9n?= writes: What is the max current load allowed (or recommended) to be drawn on pins for the GPIO on JP5? Source 3mA, sink 6mA according to the PC87366 datasheet. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL

Re: [Soekris] Soekris Alternatives

2008-10-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
of the bios updates, but he's been too busy to listen to me. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: [Soekris] Ethernet Led.. doesnt link a lot

2008-09-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ethernet led blinks off for a short time for each packet, with enough packets, it never gets to light up. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can

Re: [Soekris] nanobsd on net4801: Missing operating system

2008-09-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
sizes but that was overly optimistic. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: [Soekris] net5501/nano-FreeBSD 7: CF gets UDMA33 instead of UDMA66?

2008-09-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
yet. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ Soekris-tech

Re: [Soekris] List is quiet

2008-08-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris

Re: [Soekris] List is quiet

2008-08-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Johannes Bauer writes: Poul-Henning Kamp schrieb: Some @(*#$ idiot decided to write his own scraper and generated to many errors that the log partition ran full. I hope everything is humming again now. I don't get it. As English is not my mother tounge, I even

Re: [Soekris] List is quiet

2008-08-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
and generated to many errors that the log partition ran full. I hope everything is humming again now. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can

Re: [Soekris] Hard drives for the Net5501: Travelstar?

2008-08-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
production series of them. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: [Soekris] flash wear with FreeBSD fifolog

2008-08-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
leave the calculations of lifetime as an exercise for the reader :-) Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained

Re: [Soekris] NET5530 - Information about Led

2008-07-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
that, but.. where I can connect those led on the board? :-P The GPIO connector. There's no manual so you'll have to make do with the wiki. http://wiki.soekris.info/Unofficial_Hardware_Manual#net5501 It's the same as the NET4801 -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Soekris] Max. current to draw from 5501 GPIO pins?

2008-07-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marc Balmer writes: Does anybody here know what the maximum current is that I can draw from the Soekris 5501 (and/or 4801) GPIO pins? The pins can source 3mA, sink 6mA according to the 87366 data sheet. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20

Re: [Soekris] 5501-70 intermittantly fails to start with constant error light

2008-06-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
to determine if it is because of usage pattern (ie: short/taller power usage spikes) or sensitivity to external disturbances. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute

Re: [Soekris] asking about voltage and temperature monitoring soekris net 4801

2008-05-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
? Thanks Poul, the aforementioned URL redirects to http://www.searchfusion.com/ Sorry, I was sleepy: http://phk.freebsd.dk/soekris/env4801 -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe

Re: [Soekris] asking about voltage and temperature monitoring soekris net 4801

2008-05-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
this : Looks like the sensor subsystem is not properly turned on in the Check this program: http://phk/soekris/env4801/ Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never

Re: [Soekris] Transcend Industrial

2008-05-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
that are always master, slave with the default being cable-select, so you can avoid the issue by getting the right option. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what

Re: [Soekris] Net5501 and SATA disk on FreeBSD

2008-04-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
a guarantee that UDMA66 will actually work. I havn't tried it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: [Soekris] Network LED's Behaviour on net5501

2008-04-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
that turns them totally off. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: [Soekris] net5501-60 CF not detected on cold boot

2008-03-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Tancsa writes: Even stranger, is on this one I cant seem to disable PXE. BootDrive = 80 81 F0 FF To truly disable PXE, set this to 80 81 ff ff -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956

Re: [Soekris] net5501-60 CF not detected on cold boot

2008-03-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
: 161145 SN: 161145 SN: 161145 SN: 161145 ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP

Re: [Soekris] 4G CF limitation on 45xx and 48xx?

2008-03-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
off a heat belching SFF desktop, and was hoping to not to have to buy another Soekris just to support 4G. Thats not to say that I wouldn't like to have a 5501, but... I have an 8GB card I can try to test it in a few hours. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL

Re: [Soekris] FreeBSD CF DMA problem

2008-02-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
reports DMA capability but on older 4801's the CF card is not wired for that. FreeBSD cannot see the missing wires, and things get stuck. You can set hw.ata.ata_dma=0 in the loader to tell the disk driver to not attempt DMA. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL

Re: [Soekris] comBIOS via COM2 / GPIO 18 19 20

2008-02-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
as well. As far as I know, there is no way to make comBIOS use the second com port, short of a recompile. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can

Re: [Soekris] Fwd: 5501 under Debian can not see harddisk 5K160

2008-02-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], =?IS O-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Luckow?= writes: However, SATA+PATA works? And I should add: it's not supposed to work according to Søren. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD

Re: [Soekris] Anyone know what JP3 does on net5501?

2008-02-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], gavr ik peterson writes: The discussion about USB and JP8 on the net5501 got me wondering about JP3 which is located right next to the Geode processor. I would suspect JTAG ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP

Re: [Soekris] Identify second USB port on 5501

2008-02-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-, 3=Data+, 4=ground). So it follows that this must be the USB port. what useful things we can do with the other two 4-pin jumpers. I don't think I know what JP7 is. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer

Re: [Soekris] ACPI Wake-On-Lan LOM

2008-02-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
and +++ (wait) POWER -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: [Soekris] NET5501 Power Control

2008-02-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Dudley writes: I remember seeing some emails go through the list concerning the ability to cause the card to power down for a few moments. +++ (wait half a second) POWER and +++ (wait half a second) RESET -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX

Re: [Soekris] net5501 and GPIO

2008-01-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
to be. But the numbering of IO pins has changed. This is the first I hear about that, can you elaborate which pins you find unexpected places ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute

Re: [Soekris] net5501 and GPIO

2008-01-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
buy me a beer in return. Poul-Henning Kamp * * $Id: icsp.c,v 1.26 2008/01/27 15:04:52 phk Exp $ * */ #include sys/types.h #include machine/cpufunc.h #include stdio.h #include assert.h #include wchar.h #include printf.h

Re: [Soekris] Net5501 Second USB Port

2008-01-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steven Finnegan writes: Does anybody know for sure which internal header is used for the second USB port on the 5501? The one next to the CF-socket. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD

Re: [Soekris] Ultradesic Guides under FreeBSD 7.0

2008-01-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
the pile in 64k chunks than in 512 byte chunks.) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: [Soekris] ACPI 4801

2008-01-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sean I writes: Does having ACPI enabled on freeBSD (or any other operating system for that matter) do any good on a 4801 or 4501? I was just curious. Sean No. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC

Re: [Soekris] JP10, DC Power Connector

2008-01-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
run some with +5V via the DC connector, so I think feeding it +5 is plenty. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained

Re: [Soekris] Choosing Compact flash (Was: Memory upgrade)

2007-12-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
is measured using the CFA extension to the ATA command set, where erase operations are done as soon as possible, so that writes are straight writes to the flash array. Search for CFA ERASE SECTOR for more details. I'm working on support in FreeBSD. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus

Re: [Soekris] 5501 onboard USB

2007-12-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ Soekris-tech mailing

Re: [Soekris] ATA DMA success on net5501?

2007-12-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
, unless I disable the DMA in / boot/loader.conf: Which bios version do you have ? There was a ATA DMA related issue until 1.32i (from memory). Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since

Re: [Soekris] Net4801 component identification help

2007-11-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
into a capacitor which is essentially a zero ohm resistor until charged. I measured the inrush current peak on a 4801 just some days ago and found it to exceed by a good margin the 17A shutdown limit of the SSR switch I used. All that said, I'd be surprised if the ferrite is the only causalty. -- Poul-Henning

Re: [Soekris] Net4801 component identification help

2007-11-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Poul-Henning Kamp writes: The flank can be particularly sharp when power comes from lead-acid batteries that have no relevant internal resistance and flows into a capacitor which is essentially a zero ohm resistor until charged. I should add, that this is why

Re: [Soekris] do net5501 serial ports have control lines?

2007-11-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marc Balmer writes: A simple question... do the net5501 serial ports provide modem control lines that can be used to get at PPS signal from a GPS receiver? Yes. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956

Re: [Soekris] net5501 and CF + ATA + SATA

2007-11-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richa rd Storm writes: Hello! I am trying to get SATA and ATA and CF working together on net5501. You can't. SATA and PATA are exclusive, if you have an SATA disk connected PATA is disabled. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Soekris] net5501 and CF + ATA + SATA

2007-11-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich ard Storm writes: The only illegal configs are those that have both PATA and SATA, any ther combination is possible. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since

Re: [Soekris] Controlling Error LED's on 5501

2007-10-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
it into 6.3R There is some doubt about some of my changes to if_vr, I'm trying to get that tested. The error-led and watchdog stuff is ready to be mfc'ed. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3

Re: [Soekris] net5501 boot trouble

2007-10-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
, that you don't trigger carrier loss if there is hardware flow-control involved on either side. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately

Re: [Soekris] net5501 boot trouble

2007-10-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Holdoway wri tes: I know it's a long time since I've done this, but shouldn't there be an earth on pin 5 as well??? I tacitly assumed people knew that :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC

Re: [Soekris] [SOEKRIS] Unmouted LEDs D26 to D31 on net4801

2007-10-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
are they LED signaling, if I mount them ? (I'm sure that Soren know if he has time, to answer...) I belive they are parallel'ed with the network activity LEDS -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD

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