most of the info is hiding in the manuals for the other boards since their bioses are similar or on the unofficial wiki...
http://wiki.soekris.info/Main_Page On Jun 27, 2011, at 10:47 PM, der Mouse wrote: > Back some 12-14 hours ago, I wrote > >>>> I recently got a 4501 [...console serial isn't driving any pins...] >>> Could it be this issue? >>> http://osdir.com/ml/hardware.soekris.technical/2003-04/msg00089.html >> It very well could be; thank you very much for the pointer. [...] >> [I]t's quite possible that once I get a crossover cable soldered up >> and another serial port driving at least one input pin, everything >> will Just Work. > > It does indeed seem to be so. I just soldered up a null-modem cable > and the serial works very nicely indeed with that, so I feel reasonably > sure it was auto-powerdown surprising me. > > I do, however, find some parameters in the BIOS that the manual doesn't > document. I've got "comBIOS ver. 1.33 20080103", and "show" lists > > ConSpeed = 19200 > ConLock = Enabled > ConMute = Disabled > BIOSentry = Enabled > PCIROMS = Enabled > PXEBoot = Enabled > FLASH = Primary > BootDelay = 5 > FastBoot = Disabled > BootPartition = Disabled > BootDrive = 80 FF FF FF > ShowPCI = Enabled > Reset = Hard > CpuSpeed = Default > > but the only manual I can find - > http://soekris.com/media/manuals/net4501_manual.pdf - lists only > ConSpeed, ConLock, BIOSentry, PCIROMS, FLASH, and BootDelay. > > Any pointers to documentation on the others? I recall seeing BootDrive > discussed on the list, but don't recall anything for the rest. Did I > just miss something somewhere? > > /~\ The ASCII Mouse > \ / Ribbon Campaign > X Against HTML [email protected] > / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
