Re: [Soekris] net4501 problem

2007-10-21 Thread Jed Clear
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, ®Âµ¦ ®ÂmOs wrote: I try to install monowall on net4501, but I have a problem the network ligth never on. I try with different cable but nothing. I don't think the 4501 has auto-MIDIX ports, so you must use a crossover cable if you are connecting to another non-switch

Re: [Soekris] Project Feasibility

2007-10-22 Thread Jed Clear
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Joel Jaeggli wrote: Carlos M. Perez wrote: 3 ? Remote Console ? need something that we can run GNOME/Desktop on so that we can remote in, and use the device?s local browser (Firefox/Opera) to configure network devices ranging from Copiers, printers, IP phones, access

Re: [Soekris] Max MTU size

2007-10-28 Thread Jed Clear
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Jan Hoevers wrote: Thomas Elsgaard wrote on 28-10-2007 8:19: Has anyone tried to use a MTU size above 1500 bytes on the soekris 5501 ? I am looking for a device that can run with a MTU size of 1544 Maximum ethernet frame size is 1548 if I recall well. An IP packet with

Re: [Soekris] Max MTU size

2007-10-28 Thread Jed Clear
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, der Mouse wrote: The Via 6105M Chips on the 5501 support 802.1q VLAN tagging, which would be an Ethernet frame size of 1522, As I understand it, the maximum standard Ethernet frame is 1516 bytes: 6 bytes of destination MAC, 6 of source MAC, 2 of frame type, 1500 of

Re: [Soekris] Max MTU size

2007-10-29 Thread Jed Clear
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Jeff Quast wrote: I thought jumbo frames (gigabit nics) were for lessening interrupts. Yes, and less checksum calculations. However interrupt coalescing and TCP Offload Engines make this less of an issue than it once was. A large frame that unpacks to many smaller frames

Re: [Soekris] Net5501 doesn't boot from HDU

2007-10-30 Thread Jed Clear
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Marco A. Calamari wrote: I configured Linux+Grub on the 5501 booting without hassle from a 1GB CF. Today I added a tested Hitachi HDU with the ATA mounting kit The bios is a 1.32i and the HDU is cable select, as describet in a thread of this list. Pri Mas Flash

Re: [Soekris] NanoBSD question...

2007-11-05 Thread Jed Clear
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Bill Borton wrote: I'm trying to install various programs from Ports into my NanoBSD Build. I'm looking at the following as a starting point for doing much the same (e.g. NTP from ports), but haven't started in on that project yet.

[Soekris] net5501 COM2 +5V pin

2007-11-14 Thread Jed Clear
Can someone confirm that the net5501 has the same COM2 pin out as the net4801? If so, can that +5V pin supply at least 60 mA? I've got the 12V 1.5A wall wart supply and no rotating storage or PCI cards, just the CF card. If you're curious I'm considering connecting a Garmin GPS 18 LVC-5m. Tips

Re: [Soekris] 1GB Compact Flash 6.06 Dapper Soekris

2007-11-29 Thread Jed Clear
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, ervin wrote: I'm pxe booting ubuntu dapper 6.06 to a Soekris 4501 (64MB RAM 1GB Compact Flash card) ... dhcp, tftp and the server install is running smoothly until I want to write the partitioning to the CF card I tried guided and manual partitioning same

Re: [Soekris] Installing Debian on a 4501 with HDD on PCI Adapter

2007-12-04 Thread Jed Clear
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Heather Lockridge wrote: From dmesg, I see: hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 2001888 sectors (1024 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=1986/16/63 hda: hda1 Which I presume is the on-board IDE controller. [snip] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming

Re: [Soekris] serial problem on new 5501

2008-01-15 Thread Jed Clear
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: Hello all I have a new 5501 here. Serial has never been used. I've tried all the common speeds, 8N1 no flow control, but no luck. The cable is definitely fine since it works with a switch. The switch could be DCE pin out and 5501 DTE (or vice

Re: [Soekris] serial problem on new 5501

2008-01-16 Thread Jed Clear
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: Jed Clear said the following, On 1/15/2008 3:18 PM: On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: I have a new 5501 here. Serial has never been used. I've tried all the common speeds, 8N1 no flow control, but no luck. The cable is definitely fine since

[Soekris] Nanobsd/FreeBSD 6.3-R won't boot

2008-01-19 Thread Jed Clear
After updating my build machine to FreeBSD 6.3R, I created a new NanoBSD image for my net5501. I used the same nano and kernel config files as with 6.2R. 6.3R on the net5501 consistently fails the boot process while trying to mount / off of the CF card (see console below). After that I can't

Re: [Soekris] Console connection

2008-02-13 Thread Jed Clear
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, voip crazy wrote: I planned to install Debian on the 5501 box but I'm not sure if install it on a CF card or in a SATA 2,5 Hdd drive. Which kind of install will be easier? which one would have less error or patching? How about the life of a CF card compare with the life

Re: [Soekris] FreeBSD 7.0 on a net4801?

2008-03-01 Thread Jed Clear
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Jan Hoevers wrote: Graham Menhennitt wrote on 1-3-2008 7:56: Paul Hoffman wrote: Greetings again. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0 on a net4801 with no luck. After the (unreadable over serial) boot prompt, during the 10-second countdown, I hit return. The cursor goes

Re: [Soekris] FreeBSD 7.0 on a net4801?

2008-03-01 Thread Jed Clear
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Paul Hoffman wrote: At 5:56 PM +1100 3/1/08, Graham Menhennitt wrote: Every character typed by the FreeBSD boot process is erased after typing, at least using the console programs I have tried. It has always been this way. (I don't build my own kernels.) The Soekris BIOS

Re: [Soekris] ethernet problem

2008-04-02 Thread Jed Clear
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, [UTF-8] Lars Noodén wrote: Michael Greenish wrote: Any one seen this before with their Soerkis box? Any suggestions? Not that specifically. I have seen with a 4801 that some subnets I have to work with will not let me use a normal cross-over Ethernet cable with

Re: [Soekris] CF often not detected by 5501-70 ComBIOS 1.33

2008-04-13 Thread Jed Clear
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, John Stalker wrote: I am experiencing problems with intermittent detection of my CF card on a new 5501-70 with the latest version of the ComBIOS. The card is a new Silicon Systems SiliconDrive Compact Flash card 2 GB Industrial Grade card, so it's not an old or a junky

Re: [Soekris] net4826 lockup issue and BIOS release

2008-04-19 Thread Jed Clear
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Izumi Utakoji wrote: Looking into ComBIOS changelog, we are considering to upgrade the BIOS, but want to make sure we can apply b4801_133.bin to net4826. I assume that net4801 bios can be applied to net4826, since it sais for net48xx, but want confirmation. Would also be

Re: [Soekris] SATA cables on a net5501: where to hide them

2008-04-24 Thread Jed Clear
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, jmc wrote: --- Wim Vandeputte - Mailinglists only [Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 08:32:40PM +0200]: --- On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:18:35PM -0400, jmc wrote: my only remaining concern is that i'm afraid i have too tight a bend radius to keep the cable away from the PATA

Re: [Soekris] net4801 + openbsd + serial device

2008-04-27 Thread Jed Clear
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, Uffe Jakobsen wrote: The part of the graphing script communicating with the device is this: printf \x11\x00\x00\x00\xB6\x00\x00\x00\xC7 /dev/tty dd if=/dev/tty of=/root/tmp/output bs=1 count=31 The result I get: Looking at the script part that you've provided

Re: [Soekris] openbsd install problem

2008-04-28 Thread Jed Clear
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Kjetil wrote: I am trying to install openbsd but I keep getting an error message, booting tftp:/bsd: open tftp:/bsd: Unknown error: code 60 failed(60). will try /obsd [snip] Try add these two options to your dhcpd.conf (i assume your tftp server is the same as your

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

2008-05-22 Thread Jed Clear
On Fri, 23 May 2008, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: 0n Thu, May 22, 2008 at 06:41:06PM +0800, komang adi wrote: yes, i have seen that before. But, i'm using ubuntu for the OS. The program at http://phk/soekris/env4801/ using free besd. Can i just apply it for the ubuntu?

Re: [Soekris] Want to build a router

2008-05-22 Thread Jed Clear
On Thu, 22 May 2008, jmc wrote: --- Stephen Brown [Thu, May 22, 2008 at 07:46:24PM -0400]: --- Well I'm looking to get away from my old PC and jump into an embedded platform because I think it will be challenging, fun and educational while fullfilling a need at the same time, and I

Re: [Soekris] Squashed versions of FreeBSD

2008-07-02 Thread Jed Clear
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Brett Glass wrote: Several years ago, I developed several embedded systems using PicoBSD, a squashed version of FreeBSD. I then was diverted from embedded UNIX development for a few years and am finally returning to it. I need to upgrade/revamp some of my older work and

Re: [Soekris] +5V power on Net4501

2008-07-28 Thread Jed Clear
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Marc Balmer wrote: * Chris Babcock wrote: Can those LVC units be used for as a GPS reference time source for NTP? Yes. They output NMEA sentences, are fully (and easily) configurable and provide a PPS signal (which has to be turned on by sending the unit some commands).

Re: [Soekris] +5V power on Net4501

2008-07-28 Thread Jed Clear
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Jed Clear wrote: If you'd rather not mess around with getting power from pin 10, and aren't otherwise using your USB connector, it is a +5V source, with enough hampsters for the LVC, at least with no internal HDD. Cutting up a spare USB cable is probably the easiest way

Re: [Soekris] FreeBSD on Geode

2008-11-21 Thread Jed Clear
On Wed Nov 19 16:47 , PatrickLamaizière sent: Le Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:26:43 +0100, Matthias Luft [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : And this is exactly what I'm planning to do: building a small homeserver on a Geode LX. So my main concern is about the performance: Could anyone tell me the, how much

Re: [Soekris] impossible to link eth1, eth2,

2008-12-05 Thread Jed Clear
On Fri Dec 5 20:25 , David Alexander sent: Several people here assume you want a bridge to tie all your interfaces together. You can go to the trouble of doing that, but why? The NET5501 is the first Soekris box that can actually saturate the 100Mbit link. With that in mind I had high hopes

Re: [Soekris] Net5501 and Crux

2009-04-12 Thread Jed Clear
On Sun Apr 12 21:57 , 'TechKid PC' tho...@techkidpc.com sent: From: Christopher R. Hertel c...@ubiqx.mn.org That's why it's called comBIOS. The Soekris BIOS sends its output to the serial port. Ah thanks that explains it. That was the only way I assumed would prove useful for trouble

Re: [Soekris] Fail to boot with equipment connected to serial port

2009-06-01 Thread Jed Clear
On Mon Jun 1 18:51 , Asle Festø sent: Hello, I'm a newbie trying to learn about these fascinating little devices. Sorry if my question is to easy but I haven't found the answer just yet. I have a Soekris Net4801 that I want to use for data logging. I have installed Debian on it and want to

Re: [Soekris] Installing NetBSD-5.0.1 on net5501

2009-09-22 Thread Jed Clear
On Tue Sep 22 17:50 , Manh Do sent: Hello I'm trying to install the official NetBSD-5.0.1 by using the official GENERIC kernel config file but then I ran into the following error message at bootup time:      warning: no /dev/console    panic: [snip] Any ideas on how to fix this

Re: [Soekris] Writing a BIOS config from cmd line

2009-10-21 Thread Jed Clear
Have you considered simply set bootdrive=F0 80 and then just control the boot from the boot server? You'd just need some way for the boot server to selectively ignore boot requests from the soekris box when you want the soekris to boot from its own drive. But since that server is presumably

Re: [Soekris] Debian install on 4801, eth0 won't work.

2010-02-23 Thread Jed Clear
On Tue Feb 23 12:59 , der Mouse sent: Not real sure that X would do a lot of good on a 4801 box I don't see why not. It was useful on Sun-3s, which were significantly wimpier. Perhaps you're confusing X with insanely bloated modern desktop environments built atop X, like KDE and Gnome?

Re: [Soekris] Installing FreeBSD 8.0 on Soekris net5501

2010-02-24 Thread Jed Clear
[reply on list this time] This will cover the serial console issues, including where to put the -h: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html -Jed On Wed Feb 24 22:39 , Jed Clear jcl...@speakeasy.net sent: On Wed Feb 24 16:47 , Henrik /KaarPoSoft hen

Re: [Soekris] Seagate Barracuda 750G SATA not working on net5501

2010-02-28 Thread Jed Clear
On Sun Feb 28 9:00 , Henrik /KaarPoSoft sent: Dear all, I have a net5501, which seems to work with a Kingston 64GB SSDnowV+ (SATA) and Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 (3.5 160GB) SATA. However, I can not get it to work with my Seagate Barracuda ES SATA 3.0Gb/s 750-GB Hard Drive

Re: [Soekris] Net-booting Debian 5?

2010-03-02 Thread Jed Clear
[Resend to list] On Tue Mar 2 15:18 , Steven Finnegan sent: I have been attempting to net-boot Debian 5 on either a 5501 or a 4801. I have the pxe environment set up. I have been following instructions here: http://wiki.soekris.info/Installing_Debian_Linux_5.0 including the editing of the

Re: [Soekris] net5501 and PCI card limitations

2010-07-06 Thread Jed Clear
On Jul 6, 2010, at 8:34 PM, Nick Lidakis wrote: As there is no manual for the net5501 on the Soekris site I thought I'd ask here. Are there any limitations to what kind of PCI card one can use with the net5501? In building an appliance like music server, I'd like to experiment with several

Re: [Soekris] how to xfer an OS/install from a VirtualBoxVM to a running Soekris, over the network?

2010-08-13 Thread Jed Clear
On Aug 13, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Ben DJ wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Martin Johnson martin.johnson.uk.li...@googlemail.com wrote: Assuming that the image you've made really is bootable on the Soekris, If it's booting in the VM, any particular reason it might not on the Soekris?

[Soekris] ipfw+natd changes in FreeBSD 8.1

2010-10-18 Thread Jed Clear
Another gratuitous lesson learned from upgrading my net5501 from FreeBSD 8.0R to 8.1R. May it save others who follow. -Jed If you're using natd with ipfw in FreeBSD 8.0 or earlier and upgrade to FreeBSD 8.1, you may need to modify your ipfw divert rules slightly. The following works up

Re: [Soekris] serial-only boot of x86 Solaris 11 Express?

2010-12-02 Thread Jed Clear
My not terribly recent experience with Solaris on SPARC was that if there was no Sun keyboard installed, it would automagically use TTYA as the console. Which brings to mind a question, what speed do you have your terminal set for? If it's set to the net5501's default 19200, you might just

Re: [Soekris] FreeBSD 8.1: kernel config (kernel: stray irq7)

2010-12-15 Thread Jed Clear
Another net5501 data point: cl...@net5501:~ vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq0: clk 1024103514 1000 irq3: uart1 25936365 25 irq4: uart0 579 0 irq5: vr1

Re: [Soekris] 4G CF errors

2011-01-25 Thread Jed Clear
On Jan 25, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Michael Smith wrote: Mike Tancsa wrote: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=10NID_NOT_FOUND LBA=7813103 # ls -l _.disk.full -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 972776448 Jan 10 17:11 _.disk.full dd if=_.disk.full ibs=64k obs=64k of=/dev/da0

Re: [Soekris] net5501 bricked, need insight on what happened

2011-02-18 Thread Jed Clear
My recollection is that the error LED for for a few seconds during cold boot is normal. If it stays on you have an issue. My first thought is that you have a speed mismatch on the serial line. Perhaps it didn't stay the same speed after the reboot, or you restarted the terminal emulation

Re: [Soekris] multiport serial card recommendations for a net5501?

2011-02-27 Thread Jed Clear
On Feb 27, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Alfred Landrum wrote: If you have good or bad experiences with a multiport serial card, please let me know. I'd like to find an 8 port serial card to use with a net5501 in order to create a linux-based serial access terminal server. I've found several vendors

Re: [Soekris] *BSD vs Linux

2011-04-14 Thread Jed Clear
On Apr 13, 2011, at 6:06 PM, Ken Hornstein wrote: I'm really curious why those that chose BSDs chose them? I'm a BSD user from waaay back; I cut my teeth on SunOS 4 in college, and I ran a actual BSD 4.3 system on a derelict VAX 11/750 just for the pure hell of it. I have a similar story

Re: [Soekris] Pyamyd login fails

2011-04-22 Thread Jed Clear
On Apr 20, 2011, at 10:14 AM, l.rine...@movimatica.com wrote: After i boot Pyramid Metrix Pebble/Linux 0.9 in my Soekris net4801 from compact flash, the system prompts: pyramid login: i enter root but the reply is: pyramid login: root Metrix Pebble/Linux 0.9 pyramid ttyS0 pyramid login:

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

2011-05-31 Thread Jed Clear
In some sort of cosmic coincidence I'm literally replacing half a 8.1 GEOM Mirror right now (it's running a disk verification from the controller now). Luckily for me I caught it earlier than you, when only one of the drives was coughing up hard read errors. In the interim I was able to take

[Soekris] NanoBSD Reboot failure

2011-09-17 Thread Jed Clear
I'm running NanoBSD (FreeBSD 8.2R) on a net5501. It generally runs great, but every time I go to reboot it, I get an error and it doesn't reboot. Same error for halt, reboot, and shutdown. net5501# uname -a FreeBSD net5501 8.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Sat Jul 16 12:26:17 EDT

Re: [Soekris] 5501-70 AC adapter stops working

2011-11-15 Thread Jed Clear
On Tue Nov 15 10:18 , Jay Em Cee sent: I've experienced this a couple of times now. The first time was quite perplexing, and it was only on a lark that I tried a spare AC adapter that I had. I thought the whole unit had gone tango uniform. I don't have skills to disassemble the AC adapter and

Re: [Soekris] Updating net6501 on Mac OS problem

2011-12-03 Thread Jed Clear
On Dec 3, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Tom Weustink wrote: I am using Zterm on Mac OS X (10.7.2) since afaik that is the only terminal program able to send data files. I tried sending using XMODEM as described on the wiki page for updating, and the file seems to arrive alright. But when I issue the

Re: [Soekris] Official net6501 bios update

2011-12-05 Thread Jed Clear
On Dec 5, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Jim Pingle wrote: I did make one change. Because that image does not have the serial console enabled I mounted the image on another FreeBSD box and activated the serial console in /boot/loader.conf.local like so: boot_multicons=YES boot_serial=YES Did you create a

Re: [Soekris] vr0 using OpenBSD stops responding.

2011-12-13 Thread Jed Clear
On Dec 10, 2011, at 7:50 AM, Frank Schuhmann wrote: Because you wrote that the Win XP was not producing the problem, but Win 7 should do it, it is perhaps the TCP window scaling, as declared in the RFC 1323. In some similar other cases it was sometimes fixing the problem (pfsense) and in

Re: [Soekris] net6501: are the E6xx LVDS pins available as pads anywhere?

2012-03-01 Thread Jed Clear
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

Re: [Soekris] Bridging OpenBSD

2012-04-25 Thread Jed Clear
On Apr 25, 2012, at 2:07 PM, Lars Noodén wrote: I am connecting four hosts to the Internet via a net5501 running OpenBSD. I would like also to be able to ping and ssh between these hosts directly rather than having each on a separate subnet. Where should I be looking to set up such

Re: [Soekris] net6501 GPIO

2013-01-10 Thread Jed Clear
From the description, they would appear to be writeable addresses that would allow you alter select outputs without knowing the current state of the output. So writing an 0x0080 to 0688 would clear bit 7 to 0 and leave the others in their current state. Writing 0x0808 to 068c would set bits

Re: [Soekris] Problem with net6501

2013-01-19 Thread Jed Clear
On Jan 19, 2013, at 8:18 PM, Christian Lavoie christian.lav...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, quick update -- managed to make it boot after removing the lan1841 that I ordered with it (OpenBSD now installed and working like a charm). So, as far as I can tell: with the lan1841 the main CPU refuses to

Re: [Soekris] ODP: help in booting FreeBSD 9

2013-08-06 Thread Jed Clear
oryginalna- Od: Jed Clear [mailto:jcl...@speakeasy.net] Wysłano: 5 sierpnia 2013 12:57 Do: Igalson Jacek - Korpo TP Temat: Re: [Soekris] help in booting FreeBSD 9 There are three places you need to adjust to deal with the 19200 serial console in FreeBSD, IIRC. You need to tell the loader

Re: [Soekris] help in booting FreeBSD 9

2013-08-08 Thread Jed Clear
and server according to loppefaaret advice on this mailinglist. I also set boot_serial=-h according to hint by Jed Clear. The last status of my booting is: boot f0 NSC DP83815/DP83816 Fast Ethernet UNDI, v1.03 Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 National

Re: [Soekris] net6501 won't cold boot (will reboot without problems)

2013-09-12 Thread Jed Clear
Do operational considerations let you swap that msata into another 6501, to see if the problem follows or not? -Jed On Sep 12, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote: I have a net6501 that will not boot properly from power-on. It's the only one in my stable of many

Re: [Soekris] HOWTO Soekris BIOS Settings From OS??

2013-12-02 Thread Jed Clear
On Dec 2, 2013, at 9:31 AM, Hendrickson, Kenneth khend...@harris.com wrote: --- Matthias Flege wrote: ... BIOS reflash from the uManager. I assume that this is a program one can run from an OS which flashes the BIOS. I have a Net5501 on which the console appears to have died. It

Re: [Soekris] Net6501 error

2014-01-18 Thread Jed Clear
On Jan 18, 2014, at 5:46 AM, ws8pnil...@sneakemail.com wrote: i have a problem with my net6501-50. It was working well since 2 years but today it didn't boot. I have the power and error leds lit and nothing on the serial console. I have the same problem with my net6501-50. Sometimes it helps

Re: [Soekris] Net6501 error

2014-01-18 Thread Jed Clear
On Jan 18, 2014, at 9:52 AM, ws8pnil...@sneakemail.com wrote: Le 18 janv. 2014 à 15:13, Jed Clear jclear-at-speakeasy.net |Soekris/Forward to (FAC)| dy7lscn...@sneakemail.com a écrit : IIRC, the error LED will stay on if it cannot access any bootable media (somebody correct me

Re: [Soekris] 32 GB SanDisk Ultra hangs net5501

2014-06-10 Thread Jed Clear
Something basic perhaps, like did the boot sector and loader get properly installed? Although I would expect some complaint from the comBios in that case. Next thing, is you OS image configured for a serial console in all boot stages. I can only speak about FreeBSD, where ISTR three files

Re: [Soekris] Booting FreeDOS from USB bootable key on net6501

2014-08-12 Thread Jed Clear
First thing that comes to mind is that FreeDOS might not boot headless. If it is designed to, it might reset the console speed. Something to check on before worrying about more intricate possibilities. -Jed On Aug 12, 2014, at 3:58 PM, ML mail mlnos...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, I would

Re: [Soekris] Can't connect to net6501

2015-01-17 Thread Jed Clear
Assuming you dropped a zero and tried 19,200 and above, I would at least try 9,600. If that fails, it's probably best to try all the lower speeds as well. And try eliminating the crossover. You could also try removing the SSD to see if you get the BIOS to come up. -Jed On Jan 17, 2015,

Re: [Soekris] Compact Flash lifetime/failure detection?

2015-01-06 Thread Jed Clear
I am now worried that my Soekris could go the same way. That machine is net5501 running FreeBSD. You can use the nanobsd configuration script to build FreeBSD. It only writes to the CF when you upload a new build of the OS image. And then it only updates alternating halves of the card. It

Re: [Soekris] com speed changing during boot

2015-06-06 Thread Jed Clear
Assuming OpenBSD still shares some similarity to FreeBSD, there are three places the speed is set. The one not mentioned so far is the console setting for the getty in /etc/ttys. -Jed On Jun 6, 2015, at 8:20 PM, Nikola (Nick) Gyurov ngyu...@gmail.com wrote: It's 'set ConSpeed=9600'.

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

2015-06-25 Thread Jed Clear
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. If you were asking about FreeBSD and ipfw, I'd say yes, just look into the layer 2 filter points. So

[Soekris] net5501: FreeBSD ipfw and the elusive 75Mbps throughput

2016-06-08 Thread Jed Clear
I just climbed out of the bronze age of home networking (DSL) and now have "75Mbps service” from $BIG_CABLE_CO (iron age?). Before the DSL was the bottle neck. Now it appears the 5501 is the bottle neck. My net5501-70 has long been running nanobsd (FreeBSD 9.3-R) and ipfw as my perimeter

Re: [Soekris] net5501: FreeBSD ipfw and the elusive 75Mbps throughput

2016-06-10 Thread Jed Clear
> On Jun 9, 2016, at 11:01 PM, Andrew Atrens <and...@atrens.ca> wrote: >> On 2016-06-09 8:47 PM, Jed Clear wrote: >> With the current set up, I ran top during the download. Never got lower >> than 25% idle time on the CPU. ~30% system and and 40+% interrupt. 384M

Re: [Soekris] net5501: FreeBSD ipfw and the elusive 75Mbps throughput

2016-06-09 Thread Jed Clear
. Never got lower than 25% idle time on the CPU. ~30% system and and 40+% interrupt. 384M (of 512M) Free on memory, so no issue there. So doesn’t seem to be pegging the CPU with my full rule set. -Jed On Jun 8, 2016, at 8:18 PM, Jed Clear <cl...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > I just cl

Re: [Soekris] net5501: FreeBSD ipfw and the elusive 75Mbps throughput

2016-06-14 Thread Jed Clear
On Jun 9, 2016, at 11:01 PM, Andrew Atrens <and...@atrens.ca> wrote: On 2016-06-09 8:47 PM, Jed Clear wrote: >> Thanks for the replies so far. Looks like I’ll have to wait until Saturday >> to test further. Starting with an L2 bridge seems like a good baseline to >> try.

Re: [Soekris] net5501: FreeBSD ipfw and the elusive 75Mbps throughput -SOLVED

2016-06-18 Thread Jed Clear
On Jun 18, 2016, at 9:13 AM, Jed Clear <cl...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: On Jun 14, 2016, at 8:50 PM, Jed Clear <cl...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > On Jun 9, 2016, at 11:01 PM, Andrew Atrens <and...@atrens.ca> wrote: >> On 2016-06-09 8:47 PM, Jed Clear wrote: >>>> Tha

Re: [Soekris] net5501: FreeBSD ipfw and the elusive 75Mbps throughput -SOLVED

2016-06-18 Thread Jed Clear
On Jun 14, 2016, at 8:50 PM, Jed Clear <cl...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: On Jun 9, 2016, at 11:01 PM, Andrew Atrens <and...@atrens.ca> wrote: > On 2016-06-09 8:47 PM, Jed Clear wrote: >>> Thanks for the replies so far. Looks like I’ll have to wait until Saturday >&

Re: [Soekris] net6501 clock drift

2016-06-18 Thread Jed Clear
On Jun 18, 2016, at 6:37 AM, Embedding Linux wrote: > We have a bunch of net6501 boxes around here. The hardware clock suffers > from quite high clock drift (4 to 10 secs a day, depending on the box). > > We are using NTP, so the soft clock is in sync (this is how we >