On 22 Apr 2009, Maxim Khitrov told this:
choices seem to be 'pentium-mmx' and 'k6-2'. There is some talk about
geode-specific option developed for OLPC program, but it is not yet
available in the gcc version that comes with FreeBSD 7.
I think that's GCC 4.3.1, right? (My FreeBSD system is
On 19 May 2009, Diego Pastore said:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# file system mount point type options dump pass
proc/proc procdefaults0 0
/dev/mapper/pastrix1-root / ext3
defaults,errors=remount-ro 0
On 28 May 2009, Diego Pastore uttered the following:
Hi Joel,
another question: I already have a pata hdd mounting kit, can I only buy
standard sata data and power cable rather than sata
mounting kit?
sata mounting kit is cheap, but shipping to Italy are very expensive,
four/five times
I've finally brought up the net5501 I bought a few months ago as a
firewall. It's a lovely little piece of kit (certainly compared to the
howling jet engine mimic I was using as a firewall beforehand). The only
problem with it is that the disk light doesn't work. I noticed some
comments on
On 28 Oct 2009, Emmanuel Florac told this:
Le Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:24:03 -0500 vous écriviez:
On a smaller device, such as a Soekris, you are probably better off
with a hardware RAID controller, as long as it's a good one.
Building big raid systems is my everyday job; a couple of years ago
On 28 Jul 2010, green told this:
Does anyone know how to use the watchdog with Debian Squeeze? Presumably I
need the watchdog package and the correct module, as there is no
/dev/watchdog
yet.
On the 5501, this is geodewdt.
___
Soekris-tech
On 13 Dec 2010, Peter Norin said:
I have some problem with entropy on a server where I need to generate
a bunch of asymetric keypairs using gpg. Since I would like to do some
generation automatically I cant really do mouse movement or random
keystrokes, so thats why I instinctively thought
On 16 Dec 2010, Bob Bishop uttered the following:
spot# uname -r
8.1-RELEASE
spot# sysctl kern.hz
kern.hz: 1000
spot# vmstat -i
interrupt total rate
irq0: clk 955972998
irq4: uart0 1094 1
On 19 Dec 2010, Stuart Henderson uttered the following:
On 2010-12-18, Nix n...@esperi.org.uk wrote:
Is this a bad time to point out that with http://entropykey.co.uk/ you
could have had a very paranoid hardware RNG with known-working Linux
support? :)
(yes, it probably is, I know.)
I
On 21 Dec 2010, hen...@kaarposoft.dk uttered the following:
However, when I use the serial console (57600 baud),
the irq count starts to raise.
That I'd expect. Serial is interrupt-driven (you wouldn't want it any
other way, believe me).
It seems that I get almost (but not quite) one irq7 per
On 27 May 2011, Michael Stone verbalised:
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 02:32:42PM +0100, Nix wrote:
I think you got that backwards. The sysctl() syscall is very, very
deprecated, so deprecated that huge chunks of it are rotten and
nonfunctional at any given time, so deprecated that most of it has
On 1 Jul 2011, Soren Kristensen outgrape:
Hi Everybody,
I'm Sorry, but it took me a little time to bring up and test the net6501
hardware, a little too much software and fpga programming and a couple
of hardware issues.
But the net6501 prototypes are now working just fine, I have
On 26 Aug 2011, Ralph Becker-Szendy stated:
One problem is upgrades. If your whole household and family rely on the
server, you can't take it out of service for a weekend to upgrade the
OS. And OBSD wants to be upgraded every 6 months, otherwise you are
looking at a reinstall. Right now,
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
to work fine/as-well.
Well, I'm not Nix, but my usual answer to that is that binary packages
are usually very dogmatic about where they have to be installed.
I was more worried that they generally have post-install actions that
assume the package installation machine is equivalent to the machine
On 26 Oct 2011, Darryl Miles spake thusly:
If you are a Linux user then check out x32-abi
http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/home this would be ideal, keep the
CPU in 64bit mode but the memory model is still 32bit and revise the ABI
to be more efficient. This requires the entire user
On 27 Oct 2011, Nick Brown stated:
Also, as a useful note to anyone else looking to install RHEL6.1 (or
clones like CentOS6 or Scientific Linux 6), the 82574L ethernet driver
included in RHEL6 fails after some time.
This bug (PCIe ASPM L1 and L0s being turned off on 82574L due to NIC
errata,
On 29 Oct 2011, Soren Kristensen uttered the following:
Hi List,
I'm don't really know Linux very much, prefer FreeBSD those times I need
to work with Unix.
But don't Linux have a setting somewhere to not modify the PCI
configuration ?
That's not normally good enough, because a lot of
On 29 Oct 2011, Kyle Brantley told this:
On 10/28/2011 3:41 PM, Nix wrote:
setpci -s 03:00.0 CAP_EXP+10.b=40
(where 03:00.0 is the PCI device address).
I really must get back to diagnosing it, but my 82574Ls are on an
always-on server with my home directory on it, so debugging is *really
On 29 Oct 2011, Kyle Brantley verbalised:
On 10/29/2011 2:26 PM, Nix wrote:
Maybe this is an excuse for me to buy a net6501! :)
Well the recent Fedora kernels work fine, no tweaks. The CentOS
kernels... well, every time I rebooted the 6501, I got a different
number of ethernet devices
On 3 Nov 2011, The Fungi spake thusly:
I know bisection for boot issues can be slow and painful, but if you
have access to the 3.0 beta git commits
kernel.org came back up enough for that some weeks ago. Linus's tree is
there, as are the stable trees (though the organization of the latter
has
On 7 Dec 2011, Attila Kinali told this:
I have two stability issues: The CPU runs at 60°C when the system
is idle.
SIO Temp:+53.0°C (low = -55.0°C, high = +127.0°C)
(crit = +127.0°C)
(room temperature: 15C.)
Configuration is a bare net5501-700 in the
On 13 Dec 2011, Attila Kinali said:
On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:59:05 +
Nix n...@esperi.org.uk wrote:
I see no increase in temperature *at all* under heavy CPU load. I find
this very surprising: 120 wakeups per second (from the timer interrupt
and the entropy key daemon) shouldn't be stopping
On 4 Apr 2012, Alan told this:
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Attila Kinali att...@kinali.ch wrote:
I finaly got the time to work on this again and got my net5501
working without crashes even under heavy load and using wlan at full
power. At least not within 24h.
Great that someone is
On 14 Jun 2012, David Burgess told this:
that buzz/ring/hiss sound that seems
to vary with processing load.
That's almost certainly the power supply's transformer coils buzzing
according to power draw.
silence is virtually unachievable with electronics, I
On 15 Mar 2013, Chris Babcock outgrape:
Has anybody here had any success using NAPI on the net5501 on Linux 3.x+
kernels?
Since the net5501's VIA Rhine NICs have been NAPIfied since v3.3, surely
everyone successfully using Linux 3.3+ on the net5501 can answer 'yes'
to that. (There was a bugfix
On 14 May 2013, Kyle Brantley uttered the following:
On 5/13/2013 1:14 PM, Conrad Kostecki wrote:
I don't understand. How can a 32-Bit CPU work in 64-Bit Mode? I can't
image, that the BIOS makes the difference. Linux shows the flags lm,
which indicated, that it supports AMD64/EM64T?
The
On 18 Feb 2015, Conrad Kostecki told this:
Please note that there is limited power available for the three PCI expansion
connectors.
There are only 20W available on the 3.3V power pins and 5V pins combined.
If a 2.5” hard disk is used, it will also need to share the available power.
An
On 17 Feb 2015, n...@esperi.org.uk spake thusly:
On 17 Feb 2015, Andrew Atrens told this:
It's almost certainly a power issue as power draw for the lan card
will not be a static thing - ie will increase when transmitting
packets vs idle.
Yes, only I'd expect the increase in power draw to
On 17 Feb 2015, Andrew Atrens told this:
Hi Nix,
It's almost certainly a power issue as power draw for the lan card
will not be a static thing - ie will increase when transmitting
packets vs idle.
Yes, only I'd expect the increase in power draw to be the same when the
built-in ports fire up
So I just bought a lan1741 for my six-year-old net5501 (running the
latest stable Linux kernel), because four ports just isn't *enough*.
Unfortunately, it seems to not work entirely well.
Enough packet flow over any ports on the lan1741 (not necessarily tiny
packets either: a few thousand
The net-next tree has this commit (which cherry-picks just fine on top
of 4.0, just like all the rhine crash fixes that follow it in the tree):
commit 92bf200881d978bc3c6a290991ae1f9ddc7b5411
Author: Tino Reichardt milky-ker...@mcmilk.de
Date: Tue Feb 24 10:28:01 2015 -0800
net: via-rhine:
btw, I've just tested this patch series:
http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2015/04/06/19
which in my testing prevents very hard lockups under networking load: in
3.18 and below they only seem to happen to lan1741 ports, but in 3.19+
they happen on all ports. Because this lockup is in the rx
On 1 Jun 2015, Max C. stated:
Hello -
I read about the poor performance of the net6501 with the stock 1.41a BIOS so
I upgraded it to 1.41c. After rebooting, I now get this error during the
POST:
PXE-E05: The LAN adapter's NVM configuration is corrupted or has not been
initialized. The
On 1 Jul 2015, Ingar Steinsland told this:
Hi all,
I have an Omnikey RFID reader installed on a Soekris board, and the driver
complains about
a missing library libusb-1.0.so.0.
So I guess I need to install libusb-1.0. But so far, I haven't managed to
figure out how to install this
On 2 Jul 2015, Ingar Steinsland told this:
Hi again,
we managed to get hold of the source code and compile / install it.
Unfortunately, the pcscd program still failed to initialize the Omnikey
reader.
Perhaps we need to upgrade the Debian version? We are now running 5.0.8.
OK, that's
On 20 Jun 2016, Nenhum de Nos uttered the following:
> If anyone knows a replacement for it, please share. Its my home
> router, so can't be too pricy. If the net5501 dies the same way, I
> will order APU2 from pcengines and hope for the best. Does it have bat
> reputation on dying as well?
No,
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