[Soekris] debian 5.0.2 pxelinux crashes, anyone log this?

2009-07-14 Thread Esteban Ribičić
hello folks, im updating my soekris from debian 4 to debian 5 and when i boot with the standard syslinux i get an ugly crash...has anyone experienced sometihng like this with the latest debian? ive download the netboot from the CA mirror...version 5.0.2... ill appreciate any update or advice .. btw

[Soekris] i need soekris

2009-06-22 Thread Esteban Ribičić
Hello chaps, I need a soekris board (used?) with usb support and wifi card already plugged..anyone has something on sale? I'm in europe (Slovakia). I have for exachange if you are interested a couple of 4501 with case... cheers!!! Esteban ___ Soekris-tech

Re: [Soekris] debian bootloader on a 4501

2008-11-15 Thread Esteban Ribičić
nitrd.img console=ttyS0,19200n8 > nfsroot=192.168.1.6:/mnt/deb ip=dhcp rw > append console=ttyS0,19200n8 initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/nfs > nfsroot=192.168.1.6:/mnt/deb ip=dhcp rw > > Maybe this is a well-known fact, but it definitely wasn't to me, and I > don't see wh

[Soekris] debian bootloader on a 4501

2008-11-13 Thread Esteban Ribičić
hello, i pxe'booted a 4501 (Bios 1.32) with a 2gb CF and installed a normal debian etch installation (/boot -10mgs, boot flag .. /var and /) ... at the end it directly installed grub and failed without much of a message. i tried to use the menu to install lilo (as suggested on the wiki) and also fa

[Soekris] wiki broken link!

2008-11-12 Thread Esteban Ribičić
hello folks, i'm trying to boot a 4501 with pxe from windows...argh...the wiki has a great article with some windows software that seems to rock! the netboot.tar.gz i got from debian (http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/) needs a pxelinux.0 patched

Re: [Soekris] 4501 with pct2usb and some raid magic

2008-09-04 Thread Esteban Ribičić
your inputs are much appreciated guys, the 3.3V card, will power on the external drives? clueless here! On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Nicolas Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Esteban Ribičić([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.09.04 14:12:50 +0200 wrote: >> hello list, >> >

[Soekris] 4501 with pct2usb and some raid magic

2008-09-04 Thread Esteban Ribičić
hello list, i'm a happy 4501 user and since my external drive died loosing much of my personal data (and hence, learning an important lesson: backups are necesary) i planned buying 2 x 160gb Western Digital disks (on sale now) and attach them to my 4501 trough a pci2usb card. on top of this, apply

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

2007-12-18 Thread Esteban Ribičić
agree, dd is a true *nix tool. What does people use to measure seek times on CF? I think considering the size of CF , most I/O will last a few seconds so seek time would come more interesting than plain and boring R/W... On 12/18/07, Iustin Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at

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

2007-12-18 Thread Esteban Ribičić
test neither! my 0.1p On 12/18/07, Bent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > ___

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

2007-12-18 Thread Esteban Ribičić
is it mounted sync or async? On 12/18/07, Bent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For what it is worth, here is a measurement done on a 5501 running Gentoo > Linux: > > leopold ~ # hdparm -tT /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > Timing cached reads: 390 MB in 2.01 seconds = 194.14 MB/sec > Timing buffered dis

[Soekris] 4521 on sale (bargain!)

2007-12-12 Thread Esteban Ribičić
Hi, I'm definitely not using 6 Soekris 4521 with case + CF (64Megas) , they are virgin boxes picking up dust at my home. I'm asking 100 Euro each (its a truly bargain) + shipment. I'm Wien/Bratislava based and I'm flying UK this weekend. Let me know if anyone up to them!!! Esteban!

[Soekris] Spare Hardware

2007-12-02 Thread Esteban Ribičić
Hi, I've bought a few 4521 (4 units with case and 128Megs CF) and 4526 (1 unit with case) which i wont use as hardware is a bit short in requirements for the upcoming projects. Let me know if you are interested. I'm Europe based. Esteban ___ Soekris-tech

Re: [Soekris] What you mean by hardware optimization?

2007-11-09 Thread Esteban Ribičić
Apologizes...i was thinking who knows what! On 11/9/07, Otfried Geffert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, the fair is not in Hamburg - > where I come from, > but in Nuernberg, southern Germany. > > Otfried > > - Original Message ----- > From: "Esteba

Re: [Soekris] What you mean by hardware optimization?

2007-11-09 Thread Esteban Ribičić
lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Esteban: > > On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 13:37 +0100, Esteban Ribičić wrote: > > > What does that mean technically? Is there any short answer? any url to > > point me at? What makes this hardware "optimized" for frames > > swit

Re: [Soekris] What you mean by hardware optimization?

2007-11-08 Thread Esteban Ribičić
Jesse, Interesting aproach to the "optimized" definition, i fully agree Thanks guys Esteban On 11/8/07, Jesse Norell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When net5501 says: > > > > "It has been optimized for use as a Firewall, VPN Router, Internet > > Gateway and VoIP PBX, but has the flexibility to tak

Re: [Soekris] What you mean by hardware optimization?

2007-11-08 Thread Esteban Ribičić
Hi Chris, yes , i see your point here but i was wondering exactly about the hardware optimizations (i'm aware of software ones...well, the common ones!) reviewing the chipsets used on the nics (for example), i've endup in Via where the chipset is a common hardware used on common nics (like deskto

[Soekris] What you mean by hardware optimization?

2007-11-07 Thread Esteban Ribičić
Hello List, I'm not really good at hardware, but some people i work with came with this question i couldn't really answer. When net5501 says: "It has been optimized for use as a Firewall, VPN Router, Internet Gateway and VoIP PBX, but has the flexibility to take on a whole range of different func

Re: [Soekris] Throughput for various models?

2007-10-11 Thread Esteban Ribičić
does anyone have the output of vmstat , netstat and iostat ,etc to see how the hardware was performing at that time? would be really interesting to see and compare. i think bsd wont make much more speed difference in terms of packet size in order to nat, more sounds to me pps would be the variable

Re: [Soekris] Debian unstable on 4526

2007-10-07 Thread Esteban Ribičić
ll > nfs-server, edit /etc/exports and your pxelinux config. You will find > example configs all over the internet. > > It's plain and simple and well-supported. > > Good luck, > > Bill > > On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 06:57 -0400, Esteban Ribičić wrote: > > i got

Re: [Soekris] Debian unstable on 4526

2007-10-07 Thread Esteban Ribičić
:) its probably you getting ready for oktober fest! On 10/7/07, Jochen Voß <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > sorry, please ignore my mail. I confused the numbers: 4526 != 4521. > Sorry about that. > > All the best, > Jochen > -- > http://seehuhn.de/ > > > _

Re: [Soekris] Debian unstable on 4526

2007-10-07 Thread Esteban Ribičić
ow on creating a debootsrap partition on my system (with 64 megs) and then dd (somehow, not sure) to the soekris board. does that look like an option? does any linux installtion works on 4526? im thinking on going back to bsd... ciao, esteban On 10/6/07, Esteban Ribičić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [Soekris] Debian unstable on 4526

2007-10-06 Thread Esteban Ribičić
, you can > configure Internet Connection Sharing to make it act > as a router. It would allow the Soekris board to > download from the main Debian sites. > > If you laptop runs Linux, you can make it act as a > router with iptables, if it runs BSD you can do it > some other

[Soekris] Debian unstable on 4526

2007-10-06 Thread Esteban Ribičić
hi list, been using my 4526 with netbsd for some time, dont ask me why i cant get fully comfortable with bsd so i tried today installing debian using their netbood installer package...all goes sweet until i have to choose a mirror were to download the packages. the 4626 has one ethernet and wifi

Re: [Soekris] OS FAQ

2007-09-28 Thread Esteban Ribičić
i can provide a mirror in Austria if needed, i have a server on a dc with backup / etc... On 9/28/07, Heiko Wundram (Beenic) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Freitag 28 September 2007 15:04:33 schrieb René Luckow: > > I haven't looked into what wiki system is the best yet so if you have any > > goo

Re: [Soekris] OS FAQ

2007-09-28 Thread Esteban Ribičić
maybe would be cool to structure the documentation so it keeps organized, minimizing chaos...i don't know, maybe a structure: soekris board x - > os x , os y , os z soekris board y - > os x , os y , os z for each os have each collaborator page/tutorial/howtoo and some "musts" like dmesg, lspci o

Re: [Soekris] OS FAQ

2007-09-28 Thread Esteban Ribičić
[heating up the thread!] Many people documented a lot over 10 thousand different sites (with broken links, old information, etc) , so maybe its just a matter of giving a framework for documenting (twiki, etc) at Soekris site and let people just collaborate? Soekris is a company that makes profit

[Soekris] fliashing 4526

2007-09-03 Thread Esteban Ribičić
hello list, i've got a 4526 and was planning to run it some bsd ... the thing is i'm not sure how to flash it, should i simply use dd ? is there any other special way? some "time saver scripts" would be great help over here :) i dig ed on google, most of the stuff i saw is CF related and i don't