Re: [Soekris] net4801 vs. grub
On Aug 3, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Philip Heron p...@sanslogic.co.uk wrote: Hi All, I've dug out an old net4801 I've had in storage for a while and decided to try Debian 7 on it. The installer seemed to run perfectly but afterwards it is refusing to boot. It goes through the usual BIOS sequence and then all I get is: GRUB loading. Welcome to GRUB! Then it reboots. It's been stuck in this cycle for a while. Reinstalling hasn't helped. Anyone seen this before and know a quick fix? -Phil I believe I used LILO as the boot loader to avoid this issue. That was a long time ago, though, so YMMV. -Andy ___ 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] *BSD vs Linux
I really want to know the reasons for the decision, not start a flame war- I promise BSD rules, linux drools! Just kidding :) I went with BSD as a result of choosing pfSense for my Soekris. Several years ago, I tired of messing with custom built kernels and pretty much anything resembling spending too much time configuring my home router. pfSense had an embedded version, which entailed copying a disk image to a CF card and running a brief serial console setup. The rest is done through a web-based UI. td;dr - pfSense fit my needs for a simple-to-setup distro. -Andy ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Power Supply responses
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Bob Gustafson bob...@rcn.com wrote: I attempted to install a VoIP node at my wife's cousin's and after 10 minutes, she waved me away saying Keine Kabel Salat.. With the node, a phone, power and ethernet - it is quite impressive - in the wrong way. My vote for Quote of the Year: Keine Kabel Salat -Andy ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Current best practice for OpenBSD installs?
Hi Jason! An added benefit of a slimmed down install is that there are fewer vectors of attack. If you're using OpenBSD, that's probably important to you. You could always start with flashdist and add what you need/want. My only other advice is to make an image of the finalized CF card and keep it somewhere safe, or dupe the card. good luck! -Andy 2010/5/25 Jason Galarneau galarn...@gmail.com I have a net4801 that I'm building into a firewall for home use. With large flash cards being so easily affordable, what's the current best practice for OpenBSD installs? I've tried flashdist, but don't see a compelling reason to slim things down when I have a 4GB CF card. I like the idea of having a read-only root file system and not needing to fsck the system if I pull the plug accidentally. Suggestions? ___ 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] Debian install on 4801, eth0 won't work.
William, I think you may be experiencing an issue with udev. If you've mounted this image on another machine, all of the eth ports will be assigned to specific MAC addresses (the ones on your laptop). If you then put the image on the soekris, you'll see that the eth ports you thought you had won't appear to be working. I think you can delete the udev entries for your laptop's MAC addresses and that should clear up the issue. I don't recall exact details, but a man udev should do it. -Andy On Feb 20, 2010, at 6:35 PM, William Estrada wrote: Ted Phelps wrote: Ted, The port is OK, it works with the currect OS ( FC5 ). I'm new to Debian, how do I install this driver?? Hi William, William Estrada writes: I have just built a Debian Lenny image for my 4801, which is currently running FC5. It boots but will not bring up eth0, I am using the serial console. I have tested the build with my laptop and eth0 works just fine. Did i miss a module for the 4801?? Any ideas?? The uses the 'natsemi' driver (CONFIG_NATSEMI). Is it possible that the port is damaged? Have you tried eth1 or eth2? Cheers, -Ted -- William Estrada Mt Umunhum, CA, USA HTTP://64.124.13.3 ( Mt-Umunhum-Wireless.net ) ___ 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] Tcl hate, was: Writing a BIOS config from cmd line
Off-topic, but why all the hatred for Tcl? -a Tcl hacker *sniff* On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Bill Maas b...@stsx.org wrote: Hi Graham, how about using different machines for different purposes? As an alternative to burning a few boards for the sake of the experiment or having pairs of boxes configuring each other. Not really sure what you're planning to accomplish.. By the way, 'expect' is The Horror as some of the others pointed out, it used to be needed for talking to modems from Linux, thank heavens those days are gone.. And I'm not at all convinced about how reliable repetitive unattended flash burning will prove in the long term. Bill On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 07:12 +1100, Graham Menhennitt wrote: Erik M. Cummings wrote: That's what I have put together right now and it works for my test bench. Works okay, but doesn't scale at all. I would need a whole other PC in the field with each of these in order to do that. Erik On Oct 19, 2009, at 6:49 PM, Graham Menhennitt wrote: Erik M. Cummings wrote: I need to be able to save and write BIOS configs from the command line. Could you use some kind of expect (http://sourceforge.net/projects/expect/) script over the console serial port to do this. Something like: send \r sleep 1 send +++ sleep 1 send \r expect Soekris send cmoswrite whatever Ok, I misunderstood what you meant by command line. Perhaps you could explain it better. For starters, what operating system? I imagine that the CMOS is mapped into the o/s memory somewhere and so would be readable and possibly writable. Graham ___ 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] pfSense on 4801
I don't want to hijack the thread, but I've precisely a few questions regarding pfSense on Soekris boards. Have you an experience with it on the net4801 ? I've had great success with pfSense on 4801. easy install and maintenance. It's as easy as copying an image to a CF disk and booting it. What do you recommend, from HD or CF, to install it ? CF -Andy ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] CF card disappearing on reboot
I solved that problem by installing lilo as my bootloader. Here's the process I followed: http://wiki.soekris.info/Installing_Debian_Linux_(4.0r1_Etch) On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:12 PM, sm li...@stevem.net wrote: Hello, I just bought 4x 5501 systems and have been struggling with them most of today. There are two issues I'm having, both with the CF side of things. First, it seems that on a soft reboot (operating system reboot, or the BIOS reboot command) my CF card disappears from the list of available devices. This obviously is a showstopper for me since I need to be able to reboot remotely and have the system come back up and running. Second, I am attempting to load Debian 5.0 on these systems, and have created a working PXE install. It gets all the way through the install, and after getting around the problem above, grub starts, but always errors out with error 25. I've searched for this on the 'net and found that this error indicates grub can't find the disk. I've mounted the CF in another system and everything looks kosher. I've tried: Changing FLASH=Primary to FLASH=Secondary Changing boot device Changing hd0 and hda in menu.lst and other various places and reinstalling grub Installing grub on (hd0,0) Nothing seems to work. I'm beginning to think that this CF card is just not compatible with the hardware, which is a shame, since it's an industrial grade CF that has 10x the life of a standard CF that I bought specifically for using with these systems. Any thoughts? ___ 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] CF card disappearing on reboot
I solved that problem by installing lilo as my bootloader. Here's the process I followed: http://wiki.soekris.info/Installing_Debian_Linux_(4.0r1_Etch) On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:12 PM, sm li...@stevem.net wrote: Hello, I just bought 4x 5501 systems and have been struggling with them most of today. There are two issues I'm having, both with the CF side of things. First, it seems that on a soft reboot (operating system reboot, or the BIOS reboot command) my CF card disappears from the list of available devices. This obviously is a showstopper for me since I need to be able to reboot remotely and have the system come back up and running. Second, I am attempting to load Debian 5.0 on these systems, and have created a working PXE install. It gets all the way through the install, and after getting around the problem above, grub starts, but always errors out with error 25. I've searched for this on the 'net and found that this error indicates grub can't find the disk. I've mounted the CF in another system and everything looks kosher. I've tried: Changing FLASH=Primary to FLASH=Secondary Changing boot device Changing hd0 and hda in menu.lst and other various places and reinstalling grub Installing grub on (hd0,0) Nothing seems to work. I'm beginning to think that this CF card is just not compatible with the hardware, which is a shame, since it's an industrial grade CF that has 10x the life of a standard CF that I bought specifically for using with these systems. Any thoughts? ___ 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] Performance testing...
Hi everyone. Over the years, there has been much talk about network performance of various Soekris models. I think it might be interesting to post some standardized results based on agreed-upon metrics and test cases. I currently have access to layer 2-3 and layer 4-7 test gear. if we can gather measurement requirements on the wiki at http://wiki.soekris.info, I am willing to put the effort in to get the tests performed. On the hardware front, I'd need test units (they'd be returned after the tests are performed). On the software side, we'd need to agree on a set of OSes and configs as well as defining a test suite. I can stub out some sample test cases on the wiki, but I'll need the community to complete the list. Also, please let me know if you think this is a worthy use of time and resources, or if you think it's a complete waste of time. If anyone from Soekris would like to chime in, what types of tests might you like to see? Thanks! -Andy ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Booting to PXELinux With CF Card Present
I don't know the reasoning, but it seems (from what I saw) that comBIOS needs the CF to be inserted on boot -- if I plug it in later, it causes problems. I don't think IDE is a hotplug-capable bus. The devices need to be present on boot. I included that you've also got to specify to the Linux kernel to use the serial port and to set the baud rate. If I had known that, it would have saved me 3-5 hours last night. Hmmm... I don't recall needing to do that with the Net4801. Can anyone else confirm/deny this for the Net4801? -Andy ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Booting to PXELinux With CF Card Present
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Mike Chirico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 05:53:21AM -0400, Andy Michaels wrote: I included that you've also got to specify to the Linux kernel to use the serial port and to set the baud rate. If I had known that, it would have saved me 3-5 hours last night. Hmmm... I don't recall needing to do that with the Net4801. Can anyone else confirm/deny this for the Net4801? -Andy Yes. Here's a copy of my grub.conf, which sets the console Ah, I don't use GRUB, I use LILO output. Note I think the default speed on the soekris net5501 is 9600, which has been changed. I'm assuming the Net4801 is very similar. the 4801 is set to 19200 by default. Below is an entry from my grub.conf title Compact Flash root (hd0,0) kernel /linux-2.6.25.4 rw console=ttyS0,57600n81 root=/dev/hda2 panic=20 init=/sbin/init Thanks for the info! -Andy ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Question about Debian Linux on Soekris boards
The PCEngines support is very bad I must say and replies to my questions were often to short or just rude a That's too bad, there's been some buzz about them in the recent past. As I've heard many good things about Soekris and their products, I'm very interested in buying one of their embedded PCs. All I need is 1 or 2 network interfaces, 512 MB RAM, 500GHZ CPU and a serial console interface. Can anyone here suggest a model that suits me? The only thing in that range is the latest, the 5501. Also, has anyone been able to install a Linux distribution such as Debian without compiling and all that? In this case, I'd apreciate if someone could tell me what he / she did because I'd really like to get started with a working embedded PC and don't have another Linux system available for compiling and so on. yes, debian works well on the Soekris. Please see the how-to on http://wiki.soekris.info Thanks in advance for any help! Robin Good luck! ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Question about Debian Linux on Soekris boards
On Sep 26, 2008, at 7:26 AM, Robin Kipp wrote: Hi Andy, Thanks for the info, I purchased a Net5501-60 and I can't wait for it to arrive :-) exciting! If I had the cash (and time) I'd get one, too! The 4801 will have to suffice for now :) I'd like to use PXE boot for the Debian install, the only problem I see it requires a Linux system running TFTPd and DHCPd which I don't have. You don't actually *need* a linux box. You should be able to get a tftp and dhcp server for any OS. The config steps will be different, but the concepts are the same. Is there maybe a life CD that I could use to boot and that has the required components? Not that I'm aware of, but debian.org would have the best info. Alternatively, you might be able to install the IDE2CF adapter in your PC, boot off the debian netinstall CD and install to the CF card. To be safe, you should disconnect power from your main drive so you don't inadvertently erase anything there. This is a more drastic option, so I'd try finding tftp and dhcp servers first. HTH! -Andy ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] gigabit interface
On Sep 13, 2008, at 6:17 AM, Omer Faruk SEN wrote: Hi , Can anyone suggest me an embedded pc with good PCI-X port so I can plug Gigabit interface to it? As far as I know (from http://wiki.soekris.info/Tuning_net5501_openbsd ) we can't achieve it with soekris becuase it has 33 mhz bus. H, I don't recall ever seeing anything small form factor that had PCI-X. Those cards (and the slots) tend to be rather large. On the other hand, some recent mini-ITX boards have PCI-Express (PCI-e) slots. They also tend to have built-in gigE. That being said, those boards aren't low-cost by any means. Here's a link (disclaimer: I have no affiliation with linked company. They're the first result of a google search for mini-ITX)... http://www.logicsupply.com/categories/mainboards/intel Good luck! -Andy ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Hardware recommendations
Hello List, we are currently looking for some powerfull Hardware. It must have: - Intel Pentium Mobile (= 1,6GHz) - 2,5 Hard Disk (Slot) - Min 1GB Ram - Min 3 Interfaces - VGA is optional Powerful, indeed. Nothing Soekris sells at the moment comes close, except in Ethernet port count. I think i have seen such a 19 Soekris Box on the Linux days 2007. Can IIRC, it's merely a 19 rack-mount box for their current products. anyone point me to some products?! I'd look at mini-itx solutions, or even a full-size 1U solution http://www.mini-box.com/site/index.html http://www.logicsupply.com/ not sure what shipping to DE would be like from these companies, but I'm sure you can find something reasonable, or local. We primarily need it for Proxy, Mailserver, VPN and Netfilter. Wow, if you're doing all that on one box, you probably *do* want to look at full-size (15 deep) solutions, depending on the size of your user base. -Andy ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] NET5501 Boot Problem
Then at boot: GRUB Loading stage1.5. GRUB loading, please wait... Error 25 I used LILO and that solved my error 25 problems -Andy ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] 5501 USB to RS-232 Adapater.
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Juan Ignacio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all: Well, I want to buy an USB to RS-232 Adapter but I see there are a lot of them. Can anybody recomended one?. I needed for Mac (iMac, Powerbook) and PC-Standard (Desktop,Notebook). I've used both mentioned here, but I prefer the IOGear. http://wiki.soekris.info/Connecting_to_the_serial_console#Mac_OS_X -Andy ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net4501, Slackware 12, ethernet devices being shuffled
On Mar 18, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Chris Babcock wrote:
T. Marvin wrote:
The error I'm having (on the new one) is that when it boots up, the
ethernet devices will show up as eth0 thru eth2 in the boot logs or
whenever I force removal and reloading (i.e. rmmod, modprobe) of the
'natsemi' driver, but show up as eth3 thru eth5 when the driver is in
the system.
Quote from 'dmesg' (the boot log):
natsemi eth0: NatSemi DP8381[56] at 0xa000 (:00:12.0),
00:00:24:c9:f2:50, IRQ 10, port TP.
natsemi eth1: NatSemi DP8381[56] at 0xa0001000 (:00:13.0),
00:00:24:c9:f2:51, IRQ 11, port TP.
natsemi eth2: NatSemi DP8381[56] at 0xa0002000 (:00:14.0),
00:00:24:c9:f2:52, IRQ 5, port TP.
I doubt this is a firmware problem. Most current systems use udev,
and
it sometimes maps devices (eth included) in a seemingly random
order.
In fact, I've seen 2 _identical_ installs on the _same_ box yield
different device ordering.
In order to make things more predictable, there is are config files
that
store persistent device mappings after a device is first seen. I
can
speak for slackware, but under debian the config directory is /etc/
udev/
. Within this directory there are rule files for building the
persistent mappings, and the mapping files themselves in
/etc/udev/rules.d/ .
On one of my boxes the rules.d directory has z25_persistent-
net.rules
containing:
# This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/
write_net_rules
# program, probably run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules
file.
#
# You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single line.
# MAC addresses must be written in lowercase.
# PCI device 0x8086:0x1229 (e100)
SUBSYSTEM==net, DRIVERS==?*, ATTRS{address}==00:30:48:23:3f:76,
NAME=eth0
# PCI device 0x8086:0x1079 (e1000)
SUBSYSTEM==net, DRIVERS==?*, ATTRS{address}==00:04:23:c5:36:7d,
NAME=eth2
# PCI device 0x8086:0x1079 (e1000)
SUBSYSTEM==net, DRIVERS==?*, ATTRS{address}==00:04:23:c5:36:7c,
NAME=eth3
# PCI device 0x8086:0x100d (e1000)
SUBSYSTEM==net, DRIVERS==?*, ATTRS{address}==00:30:48:23:3f:75,
NAME=eth1
-
And, yes, changing entries in here does change the eth to mac
mappings.
-Chris
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Just to reinforce what's been said, I had this exact problem with a
pair of 4801's and it turned out to be that udev had remembered the
MACs as previously mentioned. It's a great feature, so long as you
remember that it's there :-P
-Andy
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Re: [Soekris] RESOLVED net4501, Slackware 12, ethernet devices being shuffled
Can you post this on the wiki? http://wiki.soekris.info -Andy On Mar 19, 2008, at 2:19 AM, T. Marvin wrote: Thank you to both Chris and Justin... it was indeed udev that caught me off guard here. For the record, and for the list archive so that anyone in the future can quickly resolve such quickly: Slackware 12 uses udev which stores the MAC addresses in: /etc/udev/rules.d/75-network-devices.rules Once a card has been seen, the MAC address is stored there and it will not assign the eth# identifier to any other card. New cards introduced to a system will be assigned subsequent numbers that have not yet been used. Key words for searching: Slackware 12, ethernet, numbering, higher number, different number, eth device, no eth0 ___ 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] net5501 cf booting as hdb
On Feb 16, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Darrick Hartman (lists) wrote: What would cause a net5501 to boot a compact flash as /dev/hdb? I have no other storage device connected. The compact flash card is a Transcend Industrial (1GB Ultra non-dma fixed disk). I thought there was a thread about this late last year, but I can't seem to find it at the moment. Darrick -- Hmmm, the only thing I can suggest is to check your udev settings. I'm assuming you're using linux with a device name like /dev/hdb. I once had an issue where my soekris box's NICs showed up as eth3, eth4, eth5. It turns out that because the disk image I used to set up that soekris was created on another soekris, it (correctly) recognized the NICs on this soekris as new devices. Sounds like that could be what's happening to you. Or, it might not be :) -Andy ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Soekris VPN performance
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Kim Weilie wrote: Hi, I'm considering using a Soekris system to secure my wireless at home with OpenVPN. Most likely i'll only run OpenBSD with OpenVPN on it. There will be 2 wireless notebooks using the VPN and my Internet connection is 24Mbit/s down and 2Mbit/s up. I tested OpenBSD with Soekris and couldn't discover bottleneck capacities over internet. But I never had the chance to send with more than 8MBit/s. But to provide must power, it's possible to use the GeodeLXs' 50Mbit/s pre-processor. You only have to enable the AES-128-CBC algorithm in your openvpn-config; e.g. cipher AES-128-CBC Of course, I spoke too soon. Looks like the issue *was* with the Linux driver. There are reports of getting the HiFN driver to work under linux. Here's link (in case you ever decide to go the linux route). http://ocf-linux.sourceforge.net/ OpenBSD *should* be good. -Andy ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Storage device problem
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, voip crazy wrote: Dear list, I planned to install Debian on the soekris 5501 box but I'm not sure if install it on a CF card or in a SATA 2,5 Hdd drive. Which kind of install will be easier? which one would have less error or patching? I think they'd both be about the same logically, but you'll probably need to do more physical work for the HDD install. How about the life of a CF card compare with the life of a SATA drive? You most likely won't run into lifetime issues with the CF (YMMV), kinda depends on the CF card you buy and how you set up swap. Browse on over to the wiki, there should be a how-to for debian. -Andy ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Debian unstable on 4526
Antoine, any chance you could post this to the wiki? It'd be a great resource to have available there. http://wiki.soekris.info -Andy On Oct 7, 2007, at 9:34 AM, Antoine Zen Ruffinen wrote: Hi I've made a Debian (4.0r1) install on a net4801 board. I have maybe a tip for you: You can boot the install connecting your Soekris to your PC using a network cable. Then when the first screen of the install appeared (the one about language), you can disconnect the soekris form your PC and connect it to the internet. I do so and it work. I written a short résumé of it, I will send it to you on Monday if you want. Esteban Ribičić a écrit : hi list, been using my 4526 with netbsd for some time, dont ask me why i cant get fully comfortable with bsd so i tried today installing debian using their netbood installer package...all goes sweet until i have to choose a mirror were to download the packages. the 4626 has one ethernet and wifi and the ethernet is against my laptop (providing dhcp and tftp) so i cant give internet to the 4526.. i tough installing a mirror of debian on my laptop and push files from there using ftp (default debian option) but has to be some better option...i hope :) i dont have any other computer here... well, maybe someone has some experience on 4526 linux installations. thanks enjoy! ___ 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] Connecting to a net4521 from Mac OS X
On Sep 5, 2007, at 5:00 PM, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: On Sep 5, 2007, at 12:00 AM, Andy Michaels wrote: hmmm, for my soekrii (is that the plural?) I've never had to do too much to get everything (well, everything I use anyway) working to my satisfaction. I generally set the baud rate via an option like so: $ screen /dev/tty.usbserial0 9600 Thanks for this conformation, will come in very handy! (/me is anxious to get his hardware and start working on it!) I've never had to explicitly set the stop-bits or parity, it just seemed to work. Of course, YMMV. I should probably disclose that I mostly use the console for emergencies and system configuration. I do most of the work via SSH, once the system is initially configured. ssh once you have an OS loaded and booted and connecting over the ethernet port? Or some other magical setup? Regards,... No magic, I have used both Chris Capuccio's FlashDist (for OpenBSD) and the plain Debian installer to get a base system installed to a CF card. Then I configure the SSH daemon. I do my management (for better or worse) via SSH, and use the console for those times when the network is inaccessible. -Andy ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Connecting to a net4521 from Mac OS X
On Sep 4, 2007, at 3:22 PM, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: Hi Andy, from a guy who is somewhat thankful for never having seen himself in the need of setting up a serial device before ;-) On Sep 4, 2007, at 6:57 AM, Andy Michaels wrote: Everyone seems to want to use minicom or some other term app. I simply use screen It's included in MacOS X, and has a pretty decent manpage, (it's also available for Most *nix systems as well. I'm not in any way new to screen, but I wouldn't say either that I'm a heavy user. I go as far as remapping some of my bind keys, but the other day I had some trouble scrolling up and down a screen buffer ;-) In searching the net I've seen that all I'd need to try to start a connection is the serial device as a command line argument, but how would I go about setting up the various connection parameters I might need (baud rate, parity, data width, etc.)? Something through stty? hmmm, for my soekrii (is that the plural?) I've never had to do too much to get everything (well, everything I use anyway) working to my satisfaction. I generally set the baud rate via an option like so: $ screen /dev/tty.usbserial0 9600 I've never had to explicitly set the stop-bits or parity, it just seemed to work. Of course, YMMV. I should probably disclose that I mostly use the console for emergencies and system configuration. I do most of the work via SSH, once the system is initially configured. Thanks in advance for your help and time! Regards,... Good luck! -Andy Thanks for your help and time! Regards,... -jmpp Glad to be of help. -Andy ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Net 4501 BIOS v1.31b Problems?
On Aug 17, 2007, at 8:36 AM, Heather Lockridge wrote: Hi, Is there something wrong with combios V1.31b on the 4501? This is What are the risks in downgrading the BIOS version to an earlier version, like b4501_128.bin? I know the downloads page says it is not recommeded to downgrade a BIOS to an older version than the one a board is supplied with, but I am wondering if this problem I am seeing is due to a flaw in the V1.31b BIOS. As I mentioned to the list earlier and received many helpful responses I am trying to build Linux (a stripped-down version of Centos 4.4) onto a new 4501 which I received earlier this week. I have loaded this version of linux on many net 4801s using the approach of booting from a tftp sever with an append line parameter in the tftpboot default file of root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.121:/soekris-root and it works great on net4801s with combios v1.31. With the 4501, I use the same parameters, just a new kernel built for the correct CPU (AMD Elan). What happens every time, no matter what kernel version I try is that the kernel boots from nfs, but does not find the root partition served by the nfs server. I checked and a 4801 still finds it so I know there is no problem with my nfs server. What I see is the following at the beginning of the kernel boot on the net4501 console: Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 16256 Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,9600n81 root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.121:/soekris-root ip=dhcp panic=10 ramdisk_size=4096 rw BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz.net4501 Then at the end of the boot process, I see the following: IP-Config: Complete: device=eth0, addr=192.168.1.228, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=192.168.1.2, host=192.168.1.228, domain=localdomain, nis-domain=(none), bootserver=192.168.1.121, rootserver=192.168.1.121, rootpath= Looking up port of RPC 13/2 on 192.168.1.121 Looking up port of RPC 15/1 on 192.168.1.121 VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem). Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed Then nothing further happens! I have checked with tcpdump on the nfs server watching the IP of the net4501 and I see no further traffic. Note the empty rootpath= !! Could the empty rootpath= be due to a flaw in the BIOS? Will I ruin my 4501 by downgrading to a prior version of the BIOS? Any thoughts would be appreciated! Thanks so much, Regards, Heather Heather, here's a longshot: make sure your media type setting are forcing full duplex. Back in the days when I toyed with Dreamcast as a diskless workstation, there was a weird error where neither the root partition via NFS nor the swap partition via nfs worked properly if the NIC (Dreamcast Broadband Adapter) were set to half-duplex. Changing the config in the kernel config, or possibly in the root partition (though not likely, being a sort of chicken and egg thing) should do it. Again, this is a long shot, but it struck me as familiar, sooo -Andy ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
