[Soekris] USB errors on net5501

I have a net5501 (0.5G ram) Soekris 1.5A power supply 40G pata drive vpn1411 coprocessor NetBSD (netbsd-5 branch) and WD Elements 2T external drive, USB connector to net5501 I've been having two mysterious problems. One is that (with or without USB disk), booting takes about 3

Re: [Soekris] Power Supply responses

I don't mean to point fingers specifically at Soekris devices for being hard on power supplies; I don't think they are. Rather it sounds like the average low power DC supply on the market today just isn't that great. For most uses, say occasional use powering a portable hard drive,

Re: [Soekris] Power Supply responses

Bob Gustafson bob...@rcn.com writes: http://www.westmountainradio.com/product_info.php?products_id=rr_4008_c Note that this is not a power supply; it's a distribution device, the equivalent of an outlet strip but for 12V DC. In my case, I got another USB lockup even when on large batteries,

Re: [Soekris] RAID1

der Mouse mo...@rodents-montreal.org writes: [...] possibility of the inclusion of a simple RAID1 chip [...] There is no need for a RAID chip in order to be able to boot from a RAID1. I have been doing so in several machines using Linux's md capabilities for several years. Well, not

Re: [Soekris] FreeBSD - Quick help needed...

(My experience is on NetBSD mostly, but I expect it's the same.) When I have a disk with read errors, I do dd if=/dev/rwd0d of=/dev/null bs=32k to find the bad blocks, and then use the # from /var/log/messages and: dd if=/dev/rwd0d of=/dev/null iseek=N count=1 and then dd of=/dev/rwd0d

Re: [Soekris] vpn1411 for ipsec under linux

Gerhard Rieger gerhard.rie...@linbit.com writes: I need to improve IPSec throughput on net5501 boxes under Linux Ubuntu Lucid but before purchasing vpn1411 cards I'd like to hear if someone successfully uses this accelerator card in this way? My experience under NetBSD 5 is: builtin geode

Re: [Soekris] USB port on 6501, 2GB memory configuration?

Ralph Becker-Szendy ra...@lr.los-gatos.ca.us writes: Two quick questions about the 6501. First: According to the documentation, it has USB 2.0 ports. But so does the 5501, and on my 5501 under OpenBSD, the USB ports run at USB 1.0 speed. Which is a problem, because I need to

Re: [Soekris] Second serial on net4511

Fred C soekris-f...@hidzz.com writes: When booting my net4511 the OS report 2 serials. Can someone tell me where I can find the connector for the second serial port and the pinout schema? on the net5501, there is a 10-pin header and soekris sells a cable/pci-slot-cover-with-db9 piece that

Re: [Soekris] Building an OpenBSD router

I'm doing pretty much exactly what you are proposing, except: I'm running NetBSD instead. I have a 40G laptop drive with the IDE bracket. Beware that SSDs are sometimes thicker than laptop drives. I believe that the 9.5mm drives are what fits in the case. On the 5501 you can't boot

Re: [Soekris] net5501 crashes ?

I have a 500 MHz unit, 512M ram, which I think is the 5501-70, new in early 2011, updated to the latest bios mid spring (bios was old on arrival from the factory). I installed a vpn1411 and a new-old-stock 40G 2.5 PATA disk. My experience has been with NetBSD 5.[01]_STABLE, really tip of

Re: [Soekris] net5501 power supply input specifications

Attila Kinali att...@kinali.ch writes: I finally got around to measure the internal supply pins of my net5501 to see what exactly is going on. What i see are very very short (1us) drops of the 12 down that are larger than 1V. I guess the drops of the 3.3V and 5V supply that i see at the same

Re: [Soekris] Bridging OpenBSD

I've bridged vr0 - vr3 and they show up in the bridge. I've assigned an IP number to vr0 and serve DHCP to that ip range. If I connect to vr0, I can get an address via DHCP. If I connect to the other ports, then I cannot. If I understand correctly, connections from vr1 - vr3 will be

Re: [Soekris] OpenBSD disk transfer speed - net5501/6501

On a net5501 with NetBSD 5.1_STABLE (not what you asked, but close enough to be interesting :-), I get gdt 2 ~ dd if=/dev/rwd0d of=/dev/null bs=128k ^C1747+0 records in 1747+0 records out 228982784 bytes transferred in 8.162 secs (28054739 bytes/sec) This is with a very old PATA drive,

Re: [Soekris] NetBSD with a net6501 and the SSD drive anyone?

Ben Greenfield b...@cogs.com writes: I'm looking for a new board and I have settled on the net6501. The features that sold me are the GPIO pins and the gigabit ethernet. I now see it also has an SSD drive. Has anyone used the Transend mSATA ssd with NetBSD? Is there any reason to not to

Re: [Soekris] Using a net6501 as a home server

William Ahern will...@25thandclement.com writes: On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:44:30AM -0700, Wesley PA4WDH wrote: The host will be Gentoo, i haven't decided about the guest yet. It seems a bit overkill to use gentoo there too. The workload would be email with an MTA, Secure IMAP, Webmail and

Re: [Soekris] Clock losing time on Net5501

Lars Noodén lars.noo...@gmail.com writes: Yes, I figured out that hardclock(9) was not a command. What the solution looks like, is that OpenBSD sets the hardware clock during a proper shutdown or reboot. That was not something I did often and over the months the clock drifted. However, I

Re: [Soekris] Clock losing time on Net5501

Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org writes: So, in theory, this should force it to be written: # date $(date +%Y%m%d%H%M.%S) Yes, but that will set fractional seconds to zero. You probably want a C program that does gettimeofday()/settimeofday() pgp5eB7CUHWfC.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [Soekris] Problem on net5501 upgrading to FreeBSD 9.1 from 8.3

These lines are absent from the 9.1 boot: ad1: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable ad1: 305245MB WDC WD3200BEVT-00ZCT0 11.01A11 at ata0-slave UDMA33 So something about 9.1 is not finding the disk at the driver level. But since the bootloader read the kernel from the disk,

Re: [Soekris] RESOLVED: Problem on net5501 upgrading to FreeBSD 9.1 from 8.3

Corey Halpin chal...@cs.wisc.edu writes: On 2013-02-17, Corey Halpin wrote: I have a net5501-70 which is running FreeBSD 8.3. It's got one internal SATA HD from which it boots, and also has a couple of external drives connected via a USB hub. No expansions cards are installed. I

[Soekris] net6501, booting from USB, NetBSD install

I have a net6501, and updated the firmware to 1.41c. I have an mSATA SSD (bought from Soekris), which seems to be recogized. I am trying to boot off USB, and have tried 698G drive - hangs (apparent known issue) IDE USB adapator with 111G drive - not recognized by BIOS 8G thumbdrive -

Re: [Soekris] net6501, booting from USB, NetBSD install

was recognized and worked just fine. In case anyone is curious, my collected notes are at: http://www.lexort.com/blog/net5501.html Greg Troxel g...@work.lexort.com ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com

Re: [Soekris] Redundant Power Supply or battery backup for net6501

Chris Boot bo...@bootc.net writes: On 01/08/2014 17:54, Andreas Steinel wrote: On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Greg Troxel g...@lexort.com wrote: I have a net5501, and measured that with a 2.5 disk (not ssd) it draws about 500 mA at 12V. I have it connected to several sealed lead-acid

Re: [Soekris] Limitations of Net6501 as a network bridge

Jed Clear jcl...@speakeasy.net writes: I haven't explored iptables in bridge/layer 2 mode, but there is no fundamental reason you can't packet sniff or firewall traffic in bridge mode. The traffic has to pass through your kernel. I don't know about iptables, but ipfilter in NetBSD can do

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

Bob Bishop <r...@gid.co.uk> writes: > HI, > >> On 22 Oct 2015, at 01:45, Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote: >> >> I have a net5501 (with 40G PATA spinning disk) that I run on 12V, from >> several AGM batteries and a float supply. I find that it

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

Christopher Sean Hilton <ch...@vindaloo.com> writes: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 08:45:47PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: >> Presumably you are using a 110V input? (and I wonder if a Kill-A-Watt?) >> >> I have a net5501 (with 40G PATA spinning disk) that I run on 12V, fr

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

Christopher Sean Hilton writes: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 11:28:27PM +0200, Iustin Pop wrote: > >> Given that just the Atom processor on the Supermicro has a TDP of 20W, I >> doubt that the whole system is not significantly more. Otherwise, why >> would they ship with a

Re: [Soekris] Dying net6501 servers

I have a few net6501 that I am not yet using (have been sitting powered off). I am wondering how much is understood about the failure mode, and if setting the clock frequency much lower (half or quarter of max) would reduce heat and the likelihood of failure. For most of my uses, I need a box

Re: [Soekris] Dying net6501 servers

Brook Milligan <br...@nmsu.edu> writes: > On Sep 2, 2016, at 9:49 AM, Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote: >> I have a few net6501 that I am not yet using (have been sitting powered >> off). I am wondering how much is understood about the failure mode, and >> if

Re: [Soekris] RIP net5501

Nicolas writes: > Alleluïa, it's alive !!! > > Thank you all for your advice. > > The PSU was indeed faulty. I quickly tested the sokris box with a > similar PSU, and LEDs turned on !! > > I just need to find the right input jack (2.1x5.5 mm), and I'll have a > working net5501. You have a

Re: [Soekris] So long and thanks for all the fish!

Good luck and I have also appreciated the advice and camraderie of this list. I am running NetBSD, and my net5501 bought in 2011 is still working just fine. I am eyeing an apu4c4, which feels like it might be like a net8501 if such a thing existed and were reliable. But the edgerouter lite is