Re: [Soekris] net5501 lockup when sending alot of trafic between two NIC's

2010-07-27 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
On 07/27/2010 12:54 PM, Lars Nooden wrote: > On 07/27/2010 01:17 PM, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: >> ... tweak /etc/sensors.conf until the two thermometers agree. > > Interesting. > > That method looks like it assumes that the deviation is linear. It assumes that the user is smar

Re: [Soekris] net5501 lockup when sending alot of trafic between two NIC's

2010-07-27 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
On 07/27/2010 11:49 AM, JOORIS Emmanuel wrote: > Le mardi 27 juillet 2010 à 11:38 +0200, Bjarke Istrup Pedersen a écrit : >> Thats interresting, I'll try and enable the sensor on my board and see >> what temperature it has. > > i think that the sensors (or the math formula on debian lenny) are lyin

Re: [Soekris] Power on/off and bios access

2010-04-20 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
On 04/20/2010 08:45 PM, Ken Hornstein wrote: > And am I the the only one who wonders how Poul-Henning Kamp gets all of > the knowledge about the "double-secret" Soekris features? :-) According to a recent issue of Politiken, Danes are terrible boozers. Politiken went on for a bit about mortality

Re: [Soekris] Debian install on 4801, eth0 won't work.

2010-02-23 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
On 02/23/2010 06:59 PM, der Mouse wrote: >> Not real sure that X would do a lot of good on a 4801 box > > I don't see why not. It was useful on Sun-3s, which were significantly > wimpier. I got XFCE up and running on a Lifebook S-4572 a couple of weeks ago. The 4572 is comparable to the 4801

Re: [Soekris] Looking for feedback on a linux build on net4521

2010-02-22 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
On 02/21/2010 10:46 PM, uzoma nwosu wrote: > Does this sound like a well-grounded plan? Are there any caveats that > might need to be addressed? Just one: Get one card, not two. Two cards close together will interfere with each other. Of course it'll take more time than you think, but that soun

Re: [Soekris] Soekris 5501 with SSD disks

2010-01-28 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
N.J. Mann writes answers Bob Camp: >> Now if we could just get the TRIM command implemented in a FreeBSD. > > http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=201139 Linux does it too in 2.6.33, and unlink() on an ext4fs causes trim eventually, so that makes it three evil OSes. (Wil

Re: [Soekris] Tcl hate, was: Writing a BIOS config from cmd line

2009-10-23 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Bill Maas writes: > On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 19:25 -0500, Andy Michaels wrote: >> Off-topic, but why all the hatred for Tcl? > > Ignorance breeds contempt;) Let me attempt to give a fairer answer. A determined programmer can write write-only code in any language. But some lend themselves more to i

Re: [Soekris] jumboframes & dwarfs - gigabit capable embedded pcs wanted

2009-02-18 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
I once did something like that by having a slow PC actively managing a high-capacity managed switch. Nasty hacks were involved, but it did shift the packets. Arnt ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mai

Re: [Soekris] CompactFlash cards and Soekris boards

2008-10-10 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Davy MELINA writes: > Arnt: Just for my information, do you know how many write (maybe read > too) operations support a standard CF ? Millions and millions of writes. Each particular block supports a few hundred thousand. Maybe a million or more. Depends on the card. So you can overwrite each

Re: [Soekris] CompactFlash cards and Soekris boards

2008-10-10 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Stuart Henderson writes: > On 2008-10-10, Davy MELINA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Use JFFS2 filesystem on your CF not EXT3FS or use TMPFS for your /var. > > CF already does wear-levelling in the card's controller. And longevity > is *far* better than many people seem to assume. People aren't r

Re: [Soekris] Question about Debian Linux on Soekris boards

2008-09-26 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Robin Kipp writes: > I tried to install Debian on a CF card using an IDE2CF-adapter for the > Alix board, however the box didn't boot. Doing it that way is really tricky. It probably will work if you try hard enough and tear out enough hair, but... I did that with my 4501 (seven years old now,

Re: [Soekris] "Squashed" versions of FreeBSD

2008-07-04 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Crist J. Clark writes: > My only real worry is that I've not broken out all of the stuff from > the /var that I should and I may get "dead spots" on my CF from too > many write-cycles earlier than I need to, but at $40, it's a risk I > can take. I'd be curious about any advice on that front. $4

Re: [Soekris] Any suggestion for alternative?

2008-03-16 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET writes: > I've never seen anything about running Windows on any of the Soekris > devices. (Maybe just because running Windows in and of itself is in > general "A bad idea". :) ) Can you run Windows (except Wince) on a device without a graphics card? Arnt _

Re: [Soekris] Anyone know what JP3 does on net5501?

2008-02-14 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
gavrik peterson writes: >> How hard can it be to type a few lines about pin layout in a text editor? > > Bill asks a very good question. Rather strange that things are this way. Everyone sucks. Errare humanum est. Soren's particular suckfulness is entirely different from how e.g. Dell sucks. Pic

Re: [Soekris] high CPU usage for network interrupts on 4801

2007-09-17 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Maurice Janssen writes: > On Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 21:26:36 +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> The 4801 unfortunately has all three internal network cards on the >> same interrupt line, that's not a good thing because for every >> interrupt the kernel will have to check all three network

Re: [Soekris] Net5501 board and its standard case

2007-06-25 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Okay, despite the price difference, I guess ill do it that way too > unless i get a bigger case. Wim told me the power supply will be > fine, so i just need to know if it would make a big change for the > noise cause it will be in the main room of my flat. I guess ill