Re: [Soekris] "Squashed" versions of FreeBSD

2008-07-04 Thread Brian Candler
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:41:08PM -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote: > Given the size of your typical CF card these days (I walked > into Frys and got 4 GB for $40 (not the cheapest either), and > a Atheros-based wireless NIC for $10!), there does not seem to > be much of a need to restrict size at the

Re: [Soekris] A bug in BIOS causes the "invisible output from FreeBSD boot loader" problem (analysis and interim workaround inside)

2008-06-25 Thread Brian Candler
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:42:57AM +0200, Soren Kristensen wrote: > Very detailed, I'll look into it and fix the comBIOS Perhaps also worth a look at int10h with ah=0fh, if you've not done so already (I haven't checked a recent comBIOS). The problem manifests as pxelinux writing in a tiny 15-

Re: [Soekris] MFS filling up on net4521

2008-06-16 Thread Brian Candler
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 08:20:23PM +0200, Bill Maas wrote: > A significant part of it > does not seem to be accounted for as actual disk usage: > > df -h: > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > mfs:22103 7.7M 5.4M 1.9M74%/var > > du -sh /var: > 1.8M/var/

Re: [Soekris] Want to build a router

2008-05-23 Thread Brian Candler
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 04:08:40PM -0400, Stephen Brown Jr wrote: >I'm new to this platform, and embedded computing as well and I want to >build a router for my home network. Right now I'm using Smoothwall on >an old Gateway system. >I'd like to stay with that, or maybe try pfsense

Re: [Soekris] Hot insert CF card?

2008-05-21 Thread Brian Candler
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:18:51AM -0500, K K wrote: > On 5/21/08, Erik Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only solution I can seem to come up with is hot-inserting the CF - > > but that doesn't work - or at least i don't know how to make it work. > > Maybe prep each newly purchased CF wi

Re: [Soekris] GPRS Modem for net4801?

2008-04-15 Thread Brian Candler
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:59:20AM -0400, Randall Nortman wrote: > Can anybody recommend a GPRS modem that will work with the net4801 > under Linux? This is for US frequencies -- the only GSM carrier in > the area at the moment is AT&T/Cingular. I have all options open on > the board right now --

Re: [Soekris] Sata disk mouning Problem.

2008-04-11 Thread Brian Candler
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:56:27PM +0200, Steffen Clausen wrote: > I have a problem with my net5501 soekris. I have tried installing debian > on it and it went fine, until I tried to boot up it was not able to > mount the root on the sata disk. > Then I tried to install to the flash card, in went

Re: [Soekris] GPIO for net5501 under Linux 2.6?

2008-04-01 Thread Brian Candler
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:48:33PM -0400, Alex Hajnal wrote: > I want to control the error LED on the net5501 under Linux 2.6. With a bit > of > hacking* I got a GPIO module designed for the 4801** to compile and install. > With it the temperature sensors work but I'm unable to control the LED

Re: [Soekris] 4801-60 + FreeBSD - Frequent lockups

2008-03-25 Thread Brian Candler
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 09:04:53AM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > I may be wrong, but I'm thinking about the power supply. > > > I just tried another power supply. Lasted 18 hours 15 minutes > 14 seconds. That shows it's not the power supply then. Components can fail. Solder joints

Re: [Soekris] net4501 I/O Port

2008-02-26 Thread Brian Candler
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 01:41:52PM +0100, Serge Dewailly wrote: > I'am a little bit confused with the used of vmware in a subarch like amd > elan... I really don't understand the problem: - The net4501 is just an x86 PC. It runs standard x86 code. - You can boot vmware using the same image that

Re: [Soekris] net4501 I/O Port

2008-02-26 Thread Brian Candler
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:06:01AM +0100, Serge Dewailly wrote: >Thanks for your response. that link was already in my bookmarks :) >I need to install another new small linux using the AMD Elan subarch >to be able to compile this code and run it. Sorry, I assumed you were able to compi

Re: [Soekris] net4501 I/O Port

2008-02-24 Thread Brian Candler
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 02:26:00PM +0100, Serge Dewailly wrote: > I have bought a soekris board for various personal projects. > I have successfully installed a debian etch, running a custom smaller > 2.6.18-6 kernel (with debian patches). > > I can't play with the error led and I/O port. I've fou

Re: [Soekris] net4801 problem pxeboot'ing OpenBSD 4.2 from FreeBSD 6.3

2008-02-21 Thread Brian Candler
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 04:00:17PM +0100, Bill Maas wrote: > > > > >> OpenBSD/i386 PXEBOOT 2.02 > > > > booting tftp:bsd.rd: | > > > > booting tftp:bsd.rd: 4733076read text: Unknown error: code 60 > > > > failed(60). will try /bsd Try a tcpdump on the server, e.g. tcpdump -i XXX -s1500 -

Re: [Soekris] Soekris PXE boot

2008-02-21 Thread Brian Candler
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 05:12:17PM +0100, voip crazy wrote: >Thanks for your answers, but my problem persists, >I think PXE boot works on my soekris, look thos tftpd log: ... >Feb 20 16:51:58 localhost in.tftpd[3692]: RRQ from [27]192.168.30.63 >filename linux >Feb 20 16:51:58 l

Re: [Soekris] Soekris PXE boot

2008-02-21 Thread Brian Candler
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:50:00AM +0100, Bill Maas wrote: > Hi Voipcrazy, > > http://www.modemsite.com/56k/x2-hyperterm.asp > > Search "characters twice". > > It's called a manual;). It's nothing to do with hyperterminal or half-duplex settings. > > But what I get on my soekris console is tha

Re: [Soekris] OpenBSD Soekris <-> Soekris PXE boot

2008-02-06 Thread Brian Candler
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:16:45PM +0100, Bill Maas wrote: > I've been running dhcpd/tftpd on OpenBSD 3.8-4.2 on a PC without > problems, for booting my Soekris boxens. However, when I run [almost] > the exact same config on a net4521, and try booting another Soekris box > off that one, TFTP times

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

2007-12-18 Thread Brian Candler
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 04:54:19PM +0100, Esteban Ribičić wrote: > is it mounted sync or async? The figures quoted were for reads, not writes, so I don't think it would make any difference... ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com h

Re: [Soekris] 1GB Compact Flash 6.06 Dapper & Soekris

2007-11-30 Thread Brian Candler
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 11:18:16PM +0100, ervin wrote: > I'm pxe booting ubuntu dapper 6.06 to a Soekris 4501 (64MB RAM & 1GB > Compact Flash card) ... dhcp, tftp and the server install is running > smoothly until I want to write the partitioning to the CF card > > I tried guided and manual

Re: [Soekris] really small linux

2007-11-19 Thread Brian Candler
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 09:34:11AM -0700, RB wrote: > OpenWRT fits in really tiny spaces - their ext2 image can be fit in > 16MB flash (designed for ~32) That's only because the default partitioning scheme is a 4MB ext2 boot partition for kernel+grub, and a separate 16MB partition for the root fil

Re: [Soekris] Ubuntu Dabber / 5501 / Grub error 18

2007-11-19 Thread Brian Candler
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 11:35:48PM +0100, ervin wrote: > The PXE boot went fine and I installed the GRUB loader on the 40GB HD > as you can see above. > Changes were made according to this guide https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Soekrins > > However booting afterwards gives me the GRUB error 18 . it's a

Re: [Soekris] net4501: pxelinux hangs if serial not connected

2007-11-15 Thread Brian Candler
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 12:17:39PM -0500, Bob Keyes wrote: > I hope that you are OK with me taking your post (with attribution, of > course) and putting it on our internal Wiki here at the Harvard CitySense > project. No problem. I wrote it while I was debugging the problem, so it might make sen

[Soekris] net4501: pxelinux hangs if serial not connected

2007-11-15 Thread Brian Candler
There's something odd going on here, and I believe it's ultimately a problem with the Soekris BIOS console emulation via serial port. I have a workaround by modifying pxelinux, and I'm documenting my findings here in case it's useful to someone else, and/or someone familiar with Soekris BIOS intern

Re: [Soekris] net5501 hang up when no operating system is available

2007-11-14 Thread Brian Candler
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 10:26:18PM +0100, Igor Sobrado wrote: > 1. the comBIOS finds a disk without a valid bootsector and does > not look for a secondary (81) or PXE (F0) device to boot from. > > The reason for the PXE entry after "80" and "81" is being able to > boot a Soekris c

Re: [Soekris] Loading Linux Image on NET4526 - Part 2

2007-11-07 Thread Brian Candler
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 10:26:42AM -0500, David Burke wrote: > > NOTE: I am using > http://pyramid.metrix.net/trac/wiki/InstallingPyramid/PxeBootWin as a guide. > > > 1) Here are the exact contents of my "pxelinux.cfg/default file". Remember > this is being done on a Windows machine so I have

Re: [Soekris] Loading Linux Image on NET4526 - Part 2

2007-11-06 Thread Brian Candler
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 04:21:58PM -0500, David Burke wrote: >I now have another problem. Below is a dump from TFTPD32. I believe >the errors associated with the file "pxelinux.cfg" are ok since no >errors are shown when it gets to "pxelinux.cfg/default". But I am not >sure about

Re: [Soekris] Loading Linux Image on NET4526

2007-11-06 Thread Brian Candler
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 08:45:46PM +, Brian Candler wrote: > Your tftpserver needs to contain: > > /pxelinux.0 <-- the binary > /pxelinux.cfg/ <-- a directory > /pxelinux.cfg/default <-- a text config file Oh, and a Linux kernel of

Re: [Soekris] Loading Linux Image on NET4526

2007-11-06 Thread Brian Candler
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:58:22PM -0500, David Burke wrote: >Basically, I can get the board to obtain an IP address via DHCP, but >then I get the error "PXE-E3B: TFTP Error - File Not found". The >Windows firewall is disabled Your tftpserver needs to contain: /pxelinux.0

Re: [Soekris] net5501 and CF + ATA + SATA

2007-11-05 Thread Brian Candler
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 05:12:44PM -0700, Sean McGrath wrote: > Another option: I have a $20 2 port SATA PCI card > and a CF. Linux sees the SATA disks as SCSI. > Maybe it work with PATA also. I just came across this - I don't have one but it looks useful. It's a miniPCI card which gives you 1 x I

Re: [Soekris] Soekris NET4501 I/O Connector

2007-11-01 Thread Brian Candler
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:49:44PM +0100, Eternity wrote: > I am running Linux on the NET4501. I want to be able to use the I/O > Connector as input to get values from some external relays. > > Are there any driver or code example on how to read status on the I/O > connector? This code might giv

Re: [Soekris] Controlling net4501 error LED under linux 2.6

2007-10-31 Thread Brian Candler
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:21:57AM +, Brian Candler wrote: > I'm trying to find out how to control the error LED on a net4501 from Linux > kernel 2.6.22 (OpenWrt Kamikaze 7.09) Not to worry - with further searching I found a userland solution (no kernel module required), and althou

[Soekris] Controlling net4501 error LED under linux 2.6

2007-10-31 Thread Brian Candler
Hello, I'm trying to find out how to control the error LED on a net4501 from Linux kernel 2.6.22 (OpenWrt Kamikaze 7.09) I have tried building with the drivers for net48xx, but dmesg shows: ... nsc_gpio initializing i2c /dev entries driver leds_net48xx: Unknown symbol scx200_gpio_ops ... scx200_