Re: [Soekris] What does "boot FF" do?

2008-06-02 Thread Trevor Talbot
On Jun 2, 2008, at 4:58 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > "show" says BootDrive = 80 81 F0 FF > > What does "boot FF" do? None / end marker. http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/private/soekris-tech/2004-August/006541.html (predates BootDrive) ___ Soekris-tech ma

Re: [Soekris] Bringing the 2nd USB port out of the case

2008-06-02 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 06/02/2008 07:22:28 PM, Paul Bartell wrote: > umm run the cable through an antenna cutout. Just my $.02 The problem there would be strain relief. > > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Karl O. Pinc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've a net5501. What's the best way to make the > > internal usb c

Re: [Soekris] Bringing the 2nd USB port out of the case

2008-06-02 Thread Paul Bartell
umm run the cable through an antenna cutout. Just my $.02 On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Karl O. Pinc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've a net5501. What's the best way to make the > internal usb connector external? A quick google > got me a couple of 2 port case panel mounted to 4-pin >

[Soekris] Bringing the 2nd USB port out of the case

2008-06-02 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, I've a net5501. What's the best way to make the internal usb connector external? A quick google got me a couple of 2 port case panel mounted to 4-pin adapters. But the cable length seems to be 7 inch, which is not nearly enough as far as I can see. Is there a particular product everybody's

[Soekris] What does "boot FF" do?

2008-06-02 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, I've a soekris net5501 with comBIOS ver. 1.33. "show" says BootDrive = 80 81 F0 FF What does "boot FF" do? I tried searching the list archives but FF seems to get cut out by the search engines. Thanks. Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."

[Soekris] net5501 error light stays on

2008-06-02 Thread Bryan Irvine
After setting my console to 38400 (and finding out that it might not support that) when I boot the 5501 the errors light stays on. I've connected to it using a 28.8 speed but only get a single odd character that looks like a ? in a box. I've tried setting the speed back as documented but suspect

Re: [Soekris] Using a 5501 as an NFS server

2008-06-02 Thread Otfried Geffert
I had nearly the same idea some month ago - but never did it on my Open BSD 4.0 Good to hear that it seems to work reasonable - in general. I would have a serious look at the power consumption of a big (noisy?) disk. Otfried - Original Message - From: "Ralph Becker-Szendy" <[EMAIL PROT