[Soekris] Soekris Bios

2007-10-03 Thread John McGuigan
Dear Soren, If you open source the Soekris bios I will give you a dozen bagels. Also, if you come to Edmonton, Alberta I will buy you a case of beer and we can get drunk... you can even vomit on my shoes if that's your thing. Bestpals, Slice ___

[Soekris] Workaround for IDE hang after soft reset

2007-10-03 Thread Martin K. Petersen
As many of you have noticed the net5501 IDE controller doesn't fancy coming back after a soft reset when it's been in DMA mode. And unlike CS5535, the CS5536 doesn't have a dedicated IDE controller reset register. As a quick workaround I added an MSR call to whack the companion chip on the way

Re: [Soekris] Workaround for IDE hang after soft reset

2007-10-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin K. Petersen writes: As many of you have noticed the net5501 IDE controller doesn't fancy coming back after a soft reset when it's been in DMA mode. It's not just the IDE controller, it's also the network interfaces. Soren just sent me a test-bios that seems

Re: [Soekris] OS FAQ

2007-10-03 Thread René Luckow
The creation is in the top right corner, but I can see you found it :) I've just used the standard wiki template :) On 10/3/07, Heather Lockridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uh, I can get to the Wiki. How do I create an account? I can't find any page to do so. Maybe I am looking in the wrong

Re: [Soekris] Workaround for IDE hang after soft reset

2007-10-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:46 AM 10/3/2007, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin K. Petersen writes: As many of you have noticed the net5501 IDE controller doesn't fancy coming back after a soft reset when it's been in DMA mode. It's not just the IDE controller, it's also the network

Re: [Soekris] OS FAQ

2007-10-03 Thread René Luckow
I auth users, so it should work in a second(when I've confirmed you :) ) On 10/3/07, Donald Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently created an account 'pcarsrule' along with a password and it fails to authenticate dwd --- René Luckow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The creation is in the top

Re: [Soekris] Controlling Error LED's on 5501

2007-10-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Tancsa writes: At 09:51 AM 9/17/2007, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jean-Michel Vansteene writes: Here is the patch for FreeBSD-current to access the net5501 error-led. I've asked the releng team for permission to commit. More a

Re: [Soekris] Controlling Error LED's on 5501

2007-10-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:25 AM 10/3/2007, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Tancsa writes: At 09:51 AM 9/17/2007, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jean-Michel Vansteene writes: Here is the patch for FreeBSD-current to access the net5501 error-led. I've asked the

Re: [Soekris] Controlling Error LED's on 5501

2007-10-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Tancsa writes: At 10:25 AM 10/3/2007, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Yes, as soon as we finish debugging the remaining issues in -current I will mfc all that's necessary. OK, sounds good! In terms of testing on CURRENT, is there anything we can do on this side to

Re: [Soekris] net5501 BIOS Update

2007-10-03 Thread Andreas Wrede
On Oct 3, 2007, at 19:51 , Soren Kristensen wrote: Hi Everybody, I just posted a net5501 BIOS update with: comBIOS vers 1.32h * fixed IDE DMA enable issue on net5501 * fixed soft reboot issue on net5501 * change initial clear screen to scroll lines This all works fine now. There

[Soekris] PCI card in Net5501

2007-10-03 Thread Andreas Wrede
I am trying to use a PV-149a (4-Channel Brooktree-based capture card, see http://www.provideo.com.tw/DVRCard_149P.htm ) in the PCI slot. When I power the unit up with the card in place, the power LED will flash on briefly and then turn off and stay off. I tried an assortment of other card

Re: [Soekris] Combination of EXT2 JFFS2 (as RootFS) don't boot Soekris net4521

2007-10-03 Thread Bhagyashri Katole
Hi, The Initrd and Ram disk support in linux kernel along with JFFS2 related stuff solved the problem related to reboot. Sorry Stuart ... for using wrong forum for discussion But It will be very helpful if you have a special forum for OS related issues ... Thanks for having discussion

Re: [Soekris] net5501 BIOS Update

2007-10-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:51 PM 10/3/2007, Soren Kristensen wrote: Hi Everybody, I just posted a net5501 BIOS update with: comBIOS vers 1.32h * fixed IDE DMA enable issue on net5501 * fixed soft reboot issue on net5501 Hi, Unfortunately, I still see the soft reboot issue on FreeBSD. e.g. from