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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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).
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
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
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
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
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
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:
Â
 Â
warning: no /dev/console
  panic:
[snip]
Any ideas on how to
fix this
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
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?
[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
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
[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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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'.
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
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
> 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
. 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
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.
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
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
>&
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
>
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