Re: [Soekris] 5501, openvpn, openbsd and throughput

2008-07-16 Thread Bent
if I'll be limited by the hardware? > I use a 5501 as gateway on my 100 Mb/s Internet connection. I have seen transfer speeds of up to 11 MB/s (that is megabytes) so you should not be hardware limited. I use Gentoo Linux and the transfers were straight ftp transfers. Bent _

Re: [Soekris] What is the max power supplied to PCI slot of net4801, and if it is possible to use multiple high power cards through mikrotik PCI extention board

2008-05-02 Thread Bent
evels you are talking about here ;-) (M = mega. m = milli) 73, Bent ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech

Re: [Soekris] Front Network LED's Behaviour on Soekris net5501

2008-04-08 Thread Bent
Hi Alexander 2008/4/7 Alexander Norberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Is this the expected behaviour? > Yes. They extinguish whenever there is traffic on the interface. Kind regards, Bent ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.s

Re: [Soekris] sata disk and CF

2008-02-22 Thread Bent
r ad1 ) > and SATA (I think it should be recognized as hda - or ad0 ) > Check that your BIOS is version 1.32i ( that's i as India) Earlier versions did not recognize the SATA drives. 73, Bent ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soek

Re: [Soekris] Choosing Compact flash (Was: Memory upgrade)

2007-12-18 Thread Bent
Hi Esteban 2007/12/18, Esteban Ribičić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > is it mounted sync or async? > Sorry for my ignorance, but how do you tell sync or async? Bent ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris

Re: [Soekris] Choosing Compact flash (Was: Memory upgrade)

2007-12-18 Thread Bent
/hdb: Timing cached reads: 388 MB in 2.00 seconds = 194.03 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 72 MB in 3.05 seconds = 23.60 MB/sec leopold ~ # hda is a 8 GB SanDisk Ultra II. It is spec'ed to 10 MB/s on the package. hdb is a 80 GB Seagate SATA disk. 73,

Re: [Soekris] 5501 onboard USB

2007-12-16 Thread Bent
ep the lid on my 5501 most of the time. Bent ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech

Re: [Soekris] 5501 onboard USB

2007-12-15 Thread Bent
the back. My Gentoo Linux recognizes a USB memory stick as /dev/sda (seen with 'fdisk -l'). 73, Bent ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech

Re: [Soekris] net5501 will not boot with out serial

2007-11-04 Thread Bent
ged. I should of course have used nmap to see where it appeared. I hope this will be of help. Kind regards, Bent ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech

Re: [Soekris] What is the meaning of BIOS parameter ConMute?

2007-10-19 Thread Bent
And would all the discussers of Spanning Tree please make their own thread ;-) 73, Bent ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech

Re: [Soekris] What is the meaning of BIOS parameter ConMute?

2007-10-18 Thread Bent
nd it stayed stable when I went back to GRUB. The root cause may have been that the NIC did not always come up reliably using DHCP. Thanks for all the good advise. 73, Bent PS I still need to know what ConMute really means ;-) ___ Soekris-tech mailing

[Soekris] What is the meaning of BIOS parameter ConMute?

2007-10-12 Thread Bent
e the same problem and that do not have it (that includes all of you Linux folks out there ;-)). The rest of this post is the original post - I don't want to change it in case it did make it to the list and it just didn't make it to my inbox. Bent Original post: -- The

[Soekris] What is the meaning of BIOS parameter ConMute?

2007-10-10 Thread Bent
the 4801 manual. ConMute isn't described. It apparently has influence on the process for since I chane it from Enabled to Disabled, it has booted reliably. So what is the meaning of ConMute? Bent ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekri

Re: [Soekris] 5501 Mystery - to me - at boot time

2007-10-08 Thread Bent
Hi Problem solved. The hint about putting 'hiddenmenu' into GRUB's menu.lst file did the trick. I have not tried the other suggestions. They might make it work too. Thanks for the help. KInd regrads, Bent ___ Soekris-tech mailing li

Re: [Soekris] 5501 Mystery - to me - at boot time

2007-10-07 Thread Bent
r the serial interface when booting, since it supposedly runs unattended. Am I barking up the wrong tree? Bent ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech

Re: [Soekris] Debian install issues worse since 1.32h BIOS upgrade (UDMA prob?)

2007-10-07 Thread Bent
Just to finish this thread: The described problems disappeared when I updated the BIOS to version 1.32i. Bent ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech

[Soekris] 5501 Mystery - to me - at boot time

2007-10-07 Thread Bent
oes not matter whether or not the two lines about the serial console are active or not. (The i686 is just a title, the kernel is actually built for i586) Just a thought: Could it be something on the serial interface, a missing signal or something? Any help will be much appreciated.

[Soekris] 8GB Sandisk SDCFH-8192 problems solved

2007-10-06 Thread Bent
Hi The net5501 BIOS release version 1.32i also solved my repartitioning etc. problems reported under the subject line "Debian install issues worse since 1.32h BIOS upgrade (UDMA prob?)" Your effort is appreciated, Søren Bent ___ Soekris-te

Re: [Soekris] OS FAQ

2007-10-05 Thread Bent
ch I haven't got the hang of yet. Bent ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech

[Soekris] Debian install issues worse since 1.32h BIOS upgrade (UDMA prob?)

2007-10-04 Thread Bent
the BIOS update does work ;-)) the old partition table is still present. Writing to the disk with cp does not work either. Any suggestion, anybody? Best 73 de Bent ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech

[Soekris] SanDisk 8GB CompactFlash Ultra II Memory Cards

2007-09-16 Thread Bent
Hi list Can the above card be used in a 5501? Bent ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech

Re: [Soekris] net5501: rtc running 7 times faster than realtime

2007-08-28 Thread Bent
. Kind regards, Bent 2007/8/28, Marco Neubauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > just got my 5501 a few days back. > It's running fine, except that the rtc is running much faster than realtime. > > ~ # while true; do hwclock; sleep 1; done > Fri Aug 24 17:09:08 200

Re: [Soekris] 5501 reboot problem

2007-08-25 Thread Bent
. For those of us with project > deadlines it's always about the when > I agree, and as I run this as a hobby project, I can wait. Regards, Bent ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech

Re: [Soekris] Connecting keyboard to Soekris

2007-08-22 Thread Bent
Is this the one you are looking for: http://soekris.hejl.de/ ? Bent ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech

Re: [Soekris] net5501 SATA undetected

2007-08-21 Thread Bent
. I do hope that the good Soekris people come back from vacation soon. Bent ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech

Re: [Soekris] What Ethernet driver for the 5501

2007-08-15 Thread Bent
tead of 9600 to match the > combios on these boards. > You are absolutely right both of you. Thanks. Bent ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech

Re: [Soekris] What Ethernet driver for the 5501

2007-08-15 Thread Bent
nting kit shows up soon, so I can make a more permanent installation than the NFS-based one I have at the moment. Anyway, thanks for the help and hints you gave. Kind regards, Bent ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://li

Re: [Soekris] What Ethernet driver for the 5501

2007-08-13 Thread Bent
Hi iustin 2007/8/12, Iustin Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Bent, I use VIA_RHINE and it works for me. I rather suspect a problem > with a) kernel version or b) root NFS setup. And your kernel seems > compiled with rather too many options (powernow_k8? smp? etc.). > I have

Re: [Soekris] What Ethernet driver for the 5501

2007-08-12 Thread Bent
Hi Thanks for the answers so far. I'll work on both the kernel options and the NFS issues. I'm actually following (or trying to follow ;-)) the guidelines in the Ultradesic document. I'll spare you the details for now but keep yo

[Soekris] What Ethernet driver for the 5501

2007-08-12 Thread Bent
egin, no activity is observed and tshark running on 192,168.19.99 shows no output. I believe this is because I have chosen the wrong Ethernet driver. Please correct me. Bent ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.

Re: [Soekris] How to make the 5501 recognize the SATA drive?

2007-08-12 Thread Bent
uld hook-up the disk, but as you have seen, so far to no avail. > > I've had one on back order for quite a while and have yet to see it. > My SATA adapter kit is on back order as well... Bent BTW I guessed from your domain name (cq.nu) that you are a ham. So am I; I am OZ6BL, active o

[Soekris] How to make the 5501 recognize the SATA drive?

2007-08-12 Thread Bent
something on the disk for the BIOS to sink its teeth into. KInd regards, Bent ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech