[Soekris] Boot sequence for USB booting

2011-12-30 Thread Freek Dijkstra
Hi, Where can I find some background on the boot drive sequence in the comBIOS monitor, in particular with regard to USB booting? This is mostly out of curiousity, trying to figure out what is going on (and perhaps learning a thing or two in the process). I just purchased a Soekris net6501, and

Re: [Soekris] How to clean a mSata connector

2015-10-21 Thread Freek Dijkstra
sed on the fact this is the second faulty SSD in that slot, was apparently wrong. Score 1 for fine Soekris net6500. Score 2 for awesome ZFS system that once again saved my day Score waste recycle center for defective Intel SSD Score money for the shop where I'm buying a replacement :) Regards,

[Soekris] How to clean a mSata connector

2015-09-09 Thread Freek Dijkstra
Hi, I've owned a Soekris net6501-50 since december 2011. I'm perfectly happy with the device (used as a router at home), except that I seem to have had some misfortune with my SSDs. Originally, I only used a single SSD: Transcend 16GB mSATA MLC SSD Unfortunately, I had some problems with it

Re: [Soekris] Significant issues with 6501 upstream performance

2015-12-20 Thread Freek Dijkstra
Hi Thomas, [...] > When I'm part of any kind of p2p "swarm", I can't upload reliably. It's so > bad > that I've rarely ever seen more than 20KBps per peer, and it's usually > between > 0 and 10KBps (5KBps is pretty average :o). > > I did some testing this weekend, and tried out the latest

Re: [Soekris] Anyone still want a net6501 GPIO driver for Linux?

2016-09-12 Thread Freek Dijkstra
On 11-09-2016 18:56, J. Grizzard wrote: > Does anyone still have a need for this driver? If anyone still > wants/needs it, I can make it available for folks. My recommendation is to simply publish it as-is on a Github or Bitbucket repository, with a note that it is published as-is. In my

Re: [Soekris] net6501: doesn't start if not first unplugged for 8 minutes

2017-03-19 Thread Freek Dijkstra
On 20-03-2017 00:49, Jay Grizzard wrote: > I haven't fired up my 6501 to check the exact CPU model (...anyone want > to buy it? It's of no use to me since Soekris never released the > information needed to work with the FPGA), but I wonder if this could > possibly be what's going on with them: >