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.
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