Hi Karl, Karl Auerbach wrote: > > Some of questions on the Net6501: > > 1. Can the reset button be read by software or is hard wired as a > reset? (What I am trying to accomplish is a button to tell my own > software to restore itself to its unconfigured state.)
Reset/Power switch is connected to the small uC, will be available to read from software in a new version to be released in some weeks. > 2. In the manual (Sept 19, vers 0.10) section 4.14 - JP8 - I see the > mark on the board for Pin1. But is Pin 2 the pin next to it in the same > row or the pin across from Pin1 in the other row? > In other words are the pins > > 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... > > 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ... > > --or-- > > 1 3 5 7 9 ... > > 2 4 6 8 10 .. The net6501 manual should be pretty clear on that, simply as shown in the "pin mumber" column as view from top of board.... > 3. I'm running a Linux kernel and when I tell it to reboot it gets back > to the bios but it only gets to this on the serial port and then stops: > > POST: 012345 Known bug, to be fixed in next BIOS release. > If I hit the reset button then things start over and run through the > boot-up sequence. > > (I am running Bios "comBIOS ver. 1.40a 20110906") You can also enter then uManager and issue a reset command there.... Best Regards, Soren Kristensen CEO & Chief Engineer Soekris Engineering, Inc. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
