Re: [Soekris] FreeBSD-recent + nanobsd for 4801?
On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 08:30:25AM -0400, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: The net4801 is supposed to be perfect as an inexpensive gps driven clock for ntpd. But I thought that having CPU_ELAN and CPU_ELAN_PPS in the kernel added precision to the timekeeping? That's the net4501, not the net4801. FWIW, without replacing the clock and using a custom ntpd the 4501 is ok as an NTP server but not spectacular. The limited memory and cpu hurt if you run a current OS ntpd. Remember, nobody's actively targeted that hardware in a decade. The net4801 will probably do as well in the real world even without the elan timer registers. Mike Stone ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
[Soekris] USB key : Boot problem with Soekris Net6501
Hello, I have a boot problem with pfsense on a USB key on the Soekris router Net6501. When I turn on the router, I get the following error in attachement. I need your help urgently . * Pfsense version that i use : pfSense-2.0.3-RELEASE-4g-i386-nanobsd-20130412-1022.img.gz, pfSense-2.0.3-RELEASE-2g-i386-nanobsd-20130412-1022.img.gz, pfSense-2.0.3-RELEASE-1g-i386-nanobsd-upgrade.img.gz. * Router : Soekris Net6501 Regards. Armel TSOMENE NKENNE Resp. Réseaux Infrastructure Advans Cameroun SA BP 5738 Douala Cameroun Fixe : +237 33 43 79 45 Mobile : +237 91 83 27 10 (Douala = GMT+1!) E-mail : atsom...@advanscameroun.com http://www.advanscameroun.com Think before you print ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] FreeBSD-recent + nanobsd for 4801?
On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:01 AM, Michael Stone mstone+soek...@mathom.us wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 08:30:25AM -0400, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: The net4801 is supposed to be perfect as an inexpensive gps driven clock for ntpd. But I thought that having CPU_ELAN and CPU_ELAN_PPS in the kernel added precision to the timekeeping? That's the net4501, not the net4801. FWIW, without replacing the clock and using a custom ntpd the 4501 is ok as an NTP server but not spectacular. The limited memory and cpu hurt if you run a current OS ntpd. Remember, nobody's actively targeted that hardware in a decade. The net4801 will probably do as well in the real world even without the elan timer registers. I assumed that a gps with PPS output was required. — Chris Chris __o All I was trying to do was get home from work. _`\,_ -Rosa Parks ___(*)/_(*).___o..___..o...ooO..._ Christopher Sean Hilton[chris/at/vindaloo/dot/com] signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] FreeBSD-recent + nanobsd for 4801?
On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 09:15:20AM -0400, Christopher Hilton wrote: On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:01 AM, Michael Stone mstone+soek...@mathom.us wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 08:30:25AM -0400, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: The net4801 is supposed to be perfect as an inexpensive gps driven clock for ntpd. But I thought that having CPU_ELAN and CPU_ELAN_PPS in the kernel added precision to the timekeeping? That's the net4501, not the net4801. FWIW, without replacing the clock and using a custom ntpd the 4501 is ok as an NTP server but not spectacular. The limited memory and cpu hurt if you run a current OS ntpd. Remember, nobody's actively targeted that hardware in a decade. The net4801 will probably do as well in the real world even without the elan timer registers. I assumed that a gps with PPS output was required. I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Most hardware can handle PPS, over the serial port if nothing else. It's typically implemented in ntpd, possibly with gpsd providing abstraction. The net4501's timestamp registers provide better theoretical performance than a serial port PPS. In theory it's also possible to use the GPIO pins on a net4801 to provide the PPS, but that still doesn't have anything to do with the kernel PPS functionality tied to the elan timestamp regiesters. In the real world NTP servers are generally used to serve time over the network, and a 15 year old embedded processor is somewhat slow at doing network things; the network jitter will far outweigh any theoretical accuracy of the time source. Mike Stone ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] FreeBSD-recent + nanobsd for 4801?
On 2015-07-01, Harlan Stenn har...@everett.org wrote: For a long while I've been gently trying to get FreeBSD/nanobsd built for a 4801 and installed on a Sandisk 4G CF card. Have you considered a standard FreeBSD install? I'm running FreeBSD 10, as an NTP server, on a net5501 using 2G of CF. I originally installed FreeBSD 9.x and keep updating it with freebsd-update(8). Even 2G of flash is enough for a standard install. The information at http://wiki.soekris.info/Installing_FreeBSD is to be taken with a grain of salt. E.g., for the net5501 its recommendations for a custom kernel include Add 'options CPU_SOEKRIS' and 'options CPU_GEODE'. However, CPU_SOEKRIS only concerns the net4xxx and CPU_GEODE isn't referenced anywhere in the 10-STABLE kernel source. Regarding the net4801, CPU_SOEKRIS and CPU_ELAN_* only appear to concern the GPIO port, so if you don't hook up anything there, my best guess is that a standard install with GENERIC should work just fine. -- Christian naddy Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] FreeBSD-recent + nanobsd for 4801?
On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 11:38:15AM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2015-07-01, Harlan Stenn har...@everett.org wrote: For a long while I've been gently trying to get FreeBSD/nanobsd built for a 4801 and installed on a Sandisk 4G CF card. Have you considered a standard FreeBSD install? A CF - PATA adapter might be helpful. If you are going to use Virtual Machines I find it more useful to setup a FreeBSD VM as an nfs/tftp server for remote installs. I find the OpenBSD setup here much much easier but the FreeBSD setup isn't impossible. I'm running FreeBSD 10, as an NTP server, on a net5501 using 2G of CF. I originally installed FreeBSD 9.x and keep updating it with freebsd-update(8). Even 2G of flash is enough for a standard install. The information at http://wiki.soekris.info/Installing_FreeBSD is to be taken with a grain of salt. E.g., for the net5501 its recommendations for a custom kernel include Add 'options CPU_SOEKRIS' and 'options CPU_GEODE'. However, CPU_SOEKRIS only concerns the net4xxx and CPU_GEODE isn't referenced anywhere in the 10-STABLE kernel source. Regarding the net4801, CPU_SOEKRIS and CPU_ELAN_* only appear to concern the GPIO port, so if you don't hook up anything there, my best guess is that a standard install with GENERIC should work just fine. The net4801 is supposed to be perfect as an inexpensive gps driven clock for ntpd. But I thought that having CPU_ELAN and CPU_ELAN_PPS in the kernel added precision to the timekeeping? -- Chris __o All I was trying to do was get home from work. _`\,_ -Rosa Parks ___(*)/_(*).___o..___..o...ooO..._ Christopher Sean Hilton[chris/at/vindaloo/dot/com] ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] FreeBSD-recent + nanobsd for 4801?
On 2015-07-01, Christopher Sean Hilton ch...@vindaloo.com wrote: Regarding the net4801, CPU_SOEKRIS and CPU_ELAN_* only appear to concern the GPIO port, so if you don't hook up anything there, my best guess is that a standard install with GENERIC should work just fine. The net4801 is supposed to be perfect as an inexpensive gps driven clock for ntpd. But I thought that having CPU_ELAN and CPU_ELAN_PPS in the kernel added precision to the timekeeping? Looking again, I see that it's the net4501 that is based on the AMD ElanSC520. The net4801 has an NSC SC1100 and is thus completely unaffected by CPU_ELAN_*. FreeBSD's special Elan support is concentrated in a single file, sys/i386/i386/elan-mmcr.c: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/10/sys/i386/i386/elan-mmcr.c?view=log CPU_ELAN_PPS is only of interest if you want to precisely timestamp a PPS signal on a GPIO pin. CPU_ELAN_XTAL is for people who want to run the CPU from a different clock. CPU_ELAN just pulls in the support for the other CPU_ELAN_* defines. -- Christian naddy Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] USB key : Boot problem with Soekris Net6501
Try using the following instructions: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Boot_Troubleshooting#Booting_from_USB_Booting_from_USB the line: set kern.cam.boot_delay=1 Did it for me. 2015-07-01 19:14 GMT+02:00 ED Fochler soek...@liquidbinary.com: I can’t tell what exactly has gone wrong on your system. Perhaps the disk is corrupted, or the mount point is just wrong for your system. What I can tell you is that I can boot just fine and run reliably on the net6501 using pfSense-2.1.5-RELEASE-4g-i386-nanobsd.img.gz I used dd to copy that to my 4G USB stick, and my net6501 boots and runs from that just fine. I do also have an internal SSD in that machine that is the primary boot device under normal circumstances, but I don’t think that makes a difference. ED. On 2015, Jul 1, at 9:10 AM, Armel TSOMENE NKENNE atsom...@advanscameroun.com wrote: Hello, I have a boot problem with pfsense on a USB key on the Soekris router Net6501. When I turn on the router, I get the following error in attachement. I need your help urgently . • Pfsense version that i use : pfSense-2.0.3-RELEASE-4g-i386-nanobsd-20130412-1022.img.gz, pfSense-2.0.3-RELEASE-2g-i386-nanobsd-20130412-1022.img.gz, pfSense-2.0.3-RELEASE-1g-i386-nanobsd-upgrade.img.gz. • Router : Soekris Net6501 Regards. petit_logo_advcam.JPG Armel TSOMENE NKENNE Resp. Réseaux Infrastructure Advans Cameroun SA BP 5738 Douala Cameroun Fixe :+237 33 43 79 45 Mobile : +237 91 83 27 10 (Douala = GMT+1!) E-mail : atsom...@advanscameroun.com http://www.advanscameroun.com Think before you print IMG_30062015_121552.png___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] USB key : Boot problem with Soekris Net6501
I can’t tell what exactly has gone wrong on your system. Perhaps the disk is corrupted, or the mount point is just wrong for your system. What I can tell you is that I can boot just fine and run reliably on the net6501 using pfSense-2.1.5-RELEASE-4g-i386-nanobsd.img.gz I used dd to copy that to my 4G USB stick, and my net6501 boots and runs from that just fine. I do also have an internal SSD in that machine that is the primary boot device under normal circumstances, but I don’t think that makes a difference. ED. On 2015, Jul 1, at 9:10 AM, Armel TSOMENE NKENNE atsom...@advanscameroun.com wrote: Hello, I have a boot problem with pfsense on a USB key on the Soekris router Net6501. When I turn on the router, I get the following error in attachement. I need your help urgently . • Pfsense version that i use : pfSense-2.0.3-RELEASE-4g-i386-nanobsd-20130412-1022.img.gz, pfSense-2.0.3-RELEASE-2g-i386-nanobsd-20130412-1022.img.gz, pfSense-2.0.3-RELEASE-1g-i386-nanobsd-upgrade.img.gz. • Router : Soekris Net6501 Regards. petit_logo_advcam.JPG Armel TSOMENE NKENNE Resp. Réseaux Infrastructure Advans Cameroun SA BP 5738 Douala Cameroun Fixe :+237 33 43 79 45 Mobile : +237 91 83 27 10 (Douala = GMT+1!) E-mail : atsom...@advanscameroun.com http://www.advanscameroun.com Think before you print IMG_30062015_121552.png___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
[Soekris] How to install libusb-1.0
Hi all, I have an Omnikey RFID reader installed on a Soekris board, and the driver complains about a missing library libusb-1.0.so.0. So I guess I need to install libusb-1.0. But so far, I haven't managed to figure out how to install this library. Regards, Ingar -- Ingar Rune Steinsland CEO LabelCraft AS P *Ingar Rune Steinsland Managing Director* *LabelCraft AS Løkkegata 15, N-1532 Moss, Norway Phone: +47-64982400 / +47-90055401 www.labelcraft.net * ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
