Re: [Soekris] confused about installing pfSense on net6501
On 2012-02-29, Ovidiu Predescu ovi...@gmail.com wrote: Method 1: PXE install I first tried to use PXE to do the install. I have a small machine that runs dnsmasq as DHCP and TFTP server. I downloaded the pfSense-2.0.1-RELEASE-i386.iso.gz and installed the contents of the file in a directory accessible to the TFTP server. I'm serving the boot/pxeboot file from the tftp server. The net6501 box finds the pxeboot file, but it gets stuck shortly after: Building the boot loader arguments Relocating the loader and the BTX Starting the BTX loader It looks like the next load phase never happens. I don't know the FreeBSD/pfSense boot process particularly well, but that seems like it most likely *is* booting, just isn't using the serial console. Look for a boot-loader parameter to adjust this. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] confused about installing pfSense on net6501
Make sure you are using a version of the pfSense installer that works well with a serial console, as is the case with Soekris Devices. Here's where I downloaded the image: http://files.chi.pfsense.org/jimp/ http://files.chi.pfsense.org/jimp/pfSense-memstick-serial-2.0.1-RELEASE-i386.img.gz - I then plugged in the USB drive to my mac. - Then I used a combination of gzcat and dd to write the downloaded image to the USB (ref http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/HOWTO_Install_pfSense#Mac_OS_X ) gzcat pfsense-embedded.img.gz | dd of=/dev/disk[n] bs=16k (where n = the drive # corresponding to your USB drive) - unmount the USB drive from your PC - connect up the serial cable to your PC - load drivers (if needed) to get the serial cable to work - Start up your soekris, and change the default connection speed to 9600 N1 - Reboot the device - Set your serial terminal program to 9600 N1 - connect the USB drive to the external USB connector on your Soekris - Watch for control-P to be displayed, then press it on your PC . This will bring the Soekris into terminal mode - Type - boot 81 - to have the soekris boot from the USB drive - The PfSense installer when then start... Robert -- R. Guerra Phone/Cell: +1 202-905-2081 Twitter: twitter.com/netfreedom Email: rgue...@privaterra.org On 2012-03-01, at 5:48 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2012-02-29, Ovidiu Predescu ovi...@gmail.com wrote: Method 1: PXE install I first tried to use PXE to do the install. I have a small machine that runs dnsmasq as DHCP and TFTP server. I downloaded the pfSense-2.0.1-RELEASE-i386.iso.gz and installed the contents of the file in a directory accessible to the TFTP server. I'm serving the boot/pxeboot file from the tftp server. The net6501 box finds the pxeboot file, but it gets stuck shortly after: Building the boot loader arguments Relocating the loader and the BTX Starting the BTX loader It looks like the next load phase never happens. I don't know the FreeBSD/pfSense boot process particularly well, but that seems like it most likely *is* booting, just isn't using the serial console. Look for a boot-loader parameter to adjust this. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] confused about installing pfSense on net6501
I had trouble getting pfsense onto and booting on a 5501 (CF card in this case) and when I did get it to work I followed the instructions on the following pages; hopefully they are helpful for a 6501. http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/HOWTO_Install_pfSense#Windows (for the life of me I could not get the image onto the CF card correctly in Linux) And most importantly used http://m0n0.ch/wall/physdiskwrite.php to get the image written to the CF card (I would assume it would work just fine with a USB drive. -- Don Disclaimers in email are legally meaningless http://www.economist.com/node/18529895 On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:56 AM, Robert Guerra rgue...@privaterra.org wrote: Make sure you are using a version of the pfSense installer that works well with a serial console, as is the case with Soekris Devices. Here's where I downloaded the image: http://files.chi.pfsense.org/jimp/ http://files.chi.pfsense.org/jimp/pfSense-memstick-serial-2.0.1-RELEASE-i386.img.gz - I then plugged in the USB drive to my mac. - Then I used a combination of gzcat and dd to write the downloaded image to the USB (ref http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/HOWTO_Install_pfSense#Mac_OS_X ) gzcat pfsense-embedded.img.gz | dd of=/dev/disk[n] bs=16k (where n = the drive # corresponding to your USB drive) - unmount the USB drive from your PC - connect up the serial cable to your PC - load drivers (if needed) to get the serial cable to work - Start up your soekris, and change the default connection speed to 9600 N1 - Reboot the device - Set your serial terminal program to 9600 N1 - connect the USB drive to the external USB connector on your Soekris - Watch for control-P to be displayed, then press it on your PC . This will bring the Soekris into terminal mode - Type - boot 81 - to have the soekris boot from the USB drive - The PfSense installer when then start... Robert -- R. Guerra Phone/Cell: +1 202-905-2081 Twitter: twitter.com/netfreedom Email: rgue...@privaterra.org On 2012-03-01, at 5:48 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2012-02-29, Ovidiu Predescu ovi...@gmail.com wrote: Method 1: PXE install I first tried to use PXE to do the install. I have a small machine that runs dnsmasq as DHCP and TFTP server. I downloaded the pfSense-2.0.1-RELEASE-i386.iso.gz and installed the contents of the file in a directory accessible to the TFTP server. I'm serving the boot/pxeboot file from the tftp server. The net6501 box finds the pxeboot file, but it gets stuck shortly after: Building the boot loader arguments Relocating the loader and the BTX Starting the BTX loader It looks like the next load phase never happens. I don't know the FreeBSD/pfSense boot process particularly well, but that seems like it most likely *is* booting, just isn't using the serial console. Look for a boot-loader parameter to adjust this. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] confused about installing pfSense on net6501
Stuart, this is a good point. I did some research and it appears this is the case. I found this document very useful: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html Too bad I found about it after installing it the hard way :( I might give it a try just for the kicks. Thanks, Ovidiu On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 2:48 AM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: On 2012-02-29, Ovidiu Predescu ovi...@gmail.com wrote: Method 1: PXE install I first tried to use PXE to do the install. I have a small machine that runs dnsmasq as DHCP and TFTP server. I downloaded the pfSense-2.0.1-RELEASE-i386.iso.gz and installed the contents of the file in a directory accessible to the TFTP server. I'm serving the boot/pxeboot file from the tftp server. The net6501 box finds the pxeboot file, but it gets stuck shortly after: Building the boot loader arguments Relocating the loader and the BTX Starting the BTX loader It looks like the next load phase never happens. I don't know the FreeBSD/pfSense boot process particularly well, but that seems like it most likely *is* booting, just isn't using the serial console. Look for a boot-loader parameter to adjust this. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] confused about installing pfSense on net6501
Robert, thanks! It looks like none of the official mirrors have the -serial version: http://www.pfsense.org/mirror.php?section=downloads Ovidiu 2012/3/1 Robert Guerra rgue...@privaterra.org: Make sure you are using a version of the pfSense installer that works well with a serial console, as is the case with Soekris Devices. Here's where I downloaded the image: http://files.chi.pfsense.org/jimp/ http://files.chi.pfsense.org/jimp/pfSense-memstick-serial-2.0.1-RELEASE-i386.img.gz - I then plugged in the USB drive to my mac. - Then I used a combination of gzcat and dd to write the downloaded image to the USB (ref http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/HOWTO_Install_pfSense#Mac_OS_X ) gzcat pfsense-embedded.img.gz | dd of=/dev/disk[n] bs=16k (where n = the drive # corresponding to your USB drive) - unmount the USB drive from your PC - connect up the serial cable to your PC - load drivers (if needed) to get the serial cable to work - Start up your soekris, and change the default connection speed to 9600 N1 - Reboot the device - Set your serial terminal program to 9600 N1 - connect the USB drive to the external USB connector on your Soekris - Watch for control-P to be displayed, then press it on your PC . This will bring the Soekris into terminal mode - Type - boot 81 - to have the soekris boot from the USB drive - The PfSense installer when then start... Robert -- R. Guerra Phone/Cell: +1 202-905-2081 Twitter: twitter.com/netfreedom Email: rgue...@privaterra.org On 2012-03-01, at 5:48 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2012-02-29, Ovidiu Predescu ovi...@gmail.com wrote: Method 1: PXE install I first tried to use PXE to do the install. I have a small machine that runs dnsmasq as DHCP and TFTP server. I downloaded the pfSense-2.0.1-RELEASE-i386.iso.gz and installed the contents of the file in a directory accessible to the TFTP server. I'm serving the boot/pxeboot file from the tftp server. The net6501 box finds the pxeboot file, but it gets stuck shortly after: Building the boot loader arguments Relocating the loader and the BTX Starting the BTX loader It looks like the next load phase never happens. I don't know the FreeBSD/pfSense boot process particularly well, but that seems like it most likely *is* booting, just isn't using the serial console. Look for a boot-loader parameter to adjust this. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
[Soekris] net6501: are the E6xx LVDS pins available as pads anywhere?
Hi, I've been looking into upgrading my aging firewall from a pentium-m running FBSD 4+ to something more recent. Since I've stumbled over the net6501, I have tried researching it as much as possible. My firewall is also my GPS strat-1 NTP server, UPS monitor and DHCP server, among other services. Because I use a KVM to switch VGA between servers, I am looking at a simple VGA solution for the net6501. Options using the PCIe x1 are constrained by Intel's crippling of the bus to version 1.0a - the AMD FirePro 2270 x1 is PCIe 2.1, the nVidia Quadro series is PCIe 2.0, and HIS ATI Radeon HD5450 is 2.0 (as well as doubling the power requirements). The onboard Atom E6xx does include Intel's third tier graphics on the die, with separate pipes to LVDS and SDVO outputs. Converting LVDS to VGA is a simple $30 problem. Does anyone know if the LVDS signal are exposed as pads or are the balls not connected? Additionally, looking at the EG20T datasheet, it appears that only UART0 includes hardware handshake signals (8-wire interface). The other 3 UARTS only bring out Rx Tx signals (2-wire interface). This gets to be a problem implementing a PPS NTP kernel which requires the handshake lines, unless the console serial port is not UART0. Or the internal video is available (and, obviously, the BIOS supports it, ugh). Finally, there are 4 other USB ports implemented in the EG20T - are pads for them available anywhere? Thanks- Andrew ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501: are the E6xx LVDS pins available as pads anywhere?
Hi Andrew, Andrew wrote: Hi, I've been looking into upgrading my aging firewall from a pentium-m running FBSD 4+ to something more recent. Since I've stumbled over the net6501, I have tried researching it as much as possible. My firewall is also my GPS strat-1 NTP server, UPS monitor and DHCP server, among other services. Because I use a KVM to switch VGA between servers, I am looking at a simple VGA solution for the net6501. Options using the PCIe x1 are constrained by Intel's crippling of the bus to version 1.0a - the AMD FirePro 2270 x1 is PCIe 2.1, the nVidia Quadro series is PCIe 2.0, and HIS ATI Radeon HD5450 is 2.0 (as well as doubling the power requirements). The onboard Atom E6xx does include Intel's third tier graphics on the die, with separate pipes to LVDS and SDVO outputs. Converting LVDS to VGA is a simple $30 problem. Does anyone know if the LVDS signal are exposed as pads or are the balls not connected? The net6501 does not support video or keyboard at all. Additionally, looking at the EG20T datasheet, it appears that only UART0 includes hardware handshake signals (8-wire interface). The other 3 UARTS only bring out Rx Tx signals (2-wire interface). This gets to be a problem implementing a PPS NTP kernel which requires the handshake lines, unless the console serial port is not UART0. Or the internal video is available (and, obviously, the BIOS supports it, ugh). Console Serial port on db9 connector is COM1 on LPC interface. Internal Serial port on 10 pin header is UART0 on the EG20T. Both with full handshake. Finally, there are 4 other USB ports implemented in the EG20T - are pads for them available anywhere? Two USB ports goes to the mini PCIe slots. Two USB ports goes the the standard 10 pin USB header JP4. Best Regards, Soren Kristensen CEO Chief Engineer Soekris Engineering, Inc. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501: are the E6xx LVDS pins available as pads anywhere?
On Mar 1, 2012, at 8:28 PM, Andrew andrew_soek...@16paws.com wrote: Hi, I've been looking into upgrading my aging firewall from a pentium-m running FBSD 4+ to something more recent. Since I've stumbled over the net6501, I have tried researching it as much as possible. My firewall is also my GPS strat-1 NTP server, UPS monitor and DHCP server, among other services. Because I use a KVM to switch VGA between servers, I am looking at a simple VGA solution for the net6501. Options using the PCIe x1 are constrained by Intel's crippling of the bus to version 1.0a - the AMD FirePro 2270 x1 is PCIe 2.1, the nVidia Quadro series is PCIe 2.0, and HIS ATI Radeon HD5450 is 2.0 (as well as doubling the power requirements). The onboard Atom E6xx does include Intel's third tier graphics on the die, with separate pipes to LVDS and SDVO outputs. Converting LVDS to VGA is a simple $30 problem. Does anyone know if the LVDS signal are exposed as pads or are the balls not connected? Additionally, looking at the EG20T datasheet, it appears that only UART0 includes hardware handshake signals (8-wire interface). The other 3 UARTS only bring out Rx Tx signals (2-wire interface). This gets to be a problem implementing a PPS NTP kernel which requires the handshake lines, unless the console serial port is not UART0. Or the internal video is available (and, obviously, the BIOS supports it, ugh). I've had no problems with a Garmin GPS 18 LVC feeding a PPS FreeBSD kernel via the internal serial port's DCD pin on my 5501. Based on Soren's response, it sounds like the 6501 is similarly endowed. -Jed ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501: are the E6xx LVDS pins available as pads anywhere?
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 03:28:47PM -1000, Andrew wrote: Hi, I've been looking into upgrading my aging firewall from a pentium-m running FBSD 4+ to something more recent. Since I've stumbled over the net6501, I have tried researching it as much as possible. My firewall is also my GPS strat-1 NTP server, UPS monitor and DHCP server, among other services. Because I use a KVM to switch VGA between servers, I am looking at a simple VGA solution for the net6501. [...] Thanks- Andrew If you only need VGA, mouse and KB to manage your system within a text console using a KVM, I suggest you take a look at http://www.microvga.com/ They produce a small and cheap (VGA + 2x PS/2 connectors) - (RS232) conversion module that could solve one of your problem. RSL ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
