Wim Vandeputte mailed me as well on this. Working on it right now. Think I mixed some things up as I couldn't find out how to get into uManager. Seems easy now I know it...
On Dec 3, 2011, at 7:01 PM, Jansen Jos wrote: > Tom > > As Soren politely desired all of us to do: > >> Quick guide to updating: >> >> The comBIOS update code is not there until the new version has been >> downloaded, so you need to use the uManager this time. Do: >> >> enter "+++" then 1 sec pause, you should then see the uManager prompt. >> >> # "download" - start xmodem download >> # "update" - to update uManager itself >> >> You then need to power cycle the board to get everything ready again. > > > This will not necessarily work on OSX, depending on your own way of doing USB > <> serial; I connected my 6501 to a Linux machine with a physical RS232 port > as my ancient Keyspan adapter doesn't work with the 6501 (yet -- I do not > give up easily). > > However, You _must_ do the upgrade through uManager and Soren wrote > instructions to this effect ;) > > I did a " screen /dev/ttyS0 38400" in an xterm on a RHEL6 machine and "sx -vv > xxxx.BIN > /dev/ttyS0 < /dev/ttyS0" in another xterm and that sort of worked > though not very prettily. In between one should hit the reset button, I > believe. Google is your friend, you may start here > http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-net6501-OpenBSD---BIOS-td32620628.html > > My 6501, which isn't about to run "production" for a long while because I do > not quite trust it yet, now boots: > > > 1024 Mbyte Memory CPU Atom E6xx 1000 Mhz > > > SATA AHCI BIOS ver. 0.6 20110902 Copyright (C) 2003-2011 Intel Corporation > > Controller Bus#02, Device#06, Function#00: 02 Ports, 01 Devices > Port-00: No device detected > Port-01: Hard Disk, INTEL SSDMAESC020G2 > > Soekris USB Expansion ROM ver. 1.00 20111130 > > > Initializing Intel(R) Boot Agent GE v1.3.72 > PXE 2.1 Build 089 (WfM 2.0) > > Slot Vend Dev ClassRev Cmd Stat CL LT HT Base1 Base2 Int > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 00:00:0 8086 4114 06000003 0007 0000 00 00 00 00000000 00000000 > 00:23:0 8086 8184 06040000 0107 0010 08 00 01 1FFF1000 A0FFA000 10 > 00:24:0 8086 8185 06040000 0107 0010 08 00 01 3FFF2000 A2FFA100 11 > 00:25:0 8086 8180 06040000 0107 0010 08 00 01 5FFF4000 A4FFA300 05 > 00:26:0 8086 8181 06040000 0107 0010 08 00 01 0FFF1000 00FFA000 09 > 00:31:0 8086 8186 06010000 0003 0000 00 00 80 00000000 00000000 > 02:02:0 8086 8804 0C031001 0106 0010 00 00 80 A0000B00 00000000 09 > 02:02:1 8086 8805 0C031001 0106 0010 00 00 80 A0000C00 00000000 09 > 02:02:2 8086 8806 0C031001 0106 0010 00 00 80 A0000D00 00000000 09 > 02:02:3 8086 8807 0C032001 0106 0010 00 00 80 A0000E00 00000000 09 > 02:06:0 8086 880B 01060101 0107 0010 00 00 00 00000000 00000000 11 > 02:08:0 8086 880C 0C031001 0106 0010 00 00 80 A0004800 00000000 10 > 02:08:1 8086 880D 0C031001 0106 0010 00 00 80 A0004900 00000000 10 > 02:08:2 8086 880E 0C031001 0106 0010 00 00 80 A0004A00 00000000 10 > 02:08:3 8086 880F 0C032001 0106 0010 00 00 80 A0004B00 00000000 10 > 02:10:1 8086 8811 07000200 0107 0010 00 00 80 00001041 A0004D00 09 > 02:10:2 8086 8812 07000200 0107 0010 00 00 80 00001049 A0004D10 09 > 02:12:2 8086 8817 0C800000 0106 0010 00 00 80 00000000 A0005000 05 > 02:12:3 8086 8818 0C090000 0106 0010 00 00 80 00000000 A0005200 05 > 03:00:0 111D 803A 0604000E 0107 0010 08 00 01 3FFF2000 A2FFA100 > 05:00:0 8086 10D3 02000000 0107 0010 08 00 00 A1000000 00000000 09 > 06:00:0 8086 10D3 02000000 0107 0010 08 00 00 A2000000 00000000 10 > 08:00:0 111D 803A 0604000E 0107 0010 08 00 01 5FFF4000 A4FFA300 > 10:00:0 8086 10D3 02000000 0107 0010 08 00 00 A3000000 00000000 10 > 11:00:0 8086 10D3 02000000 0107 0010 08 00 00 A4000000 00000000 11 > > 1 Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor. > > etc etc, into FreeBSD 8.2 patched up to last week, with ad6: 19087MB <INTEL > SSDMAESC020G2 2CV102M5> at ata3-master UDMA100 SATA 3Gb/s as boot device. > Cool, but unacceptably expensive for boxes which I mean to run NanoBSD off a > 4GB USB device or similar. > > > Note that I haven't tried booting from USB yet. I shall be out of the country > for a week or so and this device will probably be the least of my worries > upon my return. > > BTW: initail impressions regarding NICs aren't unfavourable. See above > disclaimer about lack of time, though. > > Met vriendelijke groet > > Jos Jansen > Adjunct-directeur Techniek > > Snow B.V. > > Unix Specialists > http://snow.nl > Tel +31 345 656666 > Fax +31 345 656665 > > > > On Dec 3, 2011, at 18:21 PM, Tom Weustink wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> 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 flashupdate command, all I get is "Error, Incorrect >> signature of BIOS image." >> >> I first downloaded the BIOS file with Safari, and second with a terminal >> command (wget alias to curl -O). >> No luck on both sadly. >> >> Anything that I am missing here? Hope to get this box booting from USB as >> it's been laying around for almost 2 months now. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Tom >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
