Re: [Soekris] New model net6501

2011-01-27 Thread Iustin Pop
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 01:01:22PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 09:34:02AM -0800, AMuse wrote: > > > > Nick: I must be missing something, but why can't you just not use the > > second (or third, or fourth..) interfaces? Is there something special > > about music serving

Re: [Soekris] NET-4801 to NET-5501 reiserfs /dev/hda3 not working

2009-04-10 Thread Iustin Pop
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 06:08:53AM -0700, AA6QN wrote: > Greetings to the list, > > I have an interesting challenge that I could use some help on. I have a > Ultra DMA IDE/ATA hard drive mounted in a NET-4801 box which I have a > current Gentoo 2.6.28 kernel working. /dev/hda1 "/boot" is ext2 and

Re: [Soekris] RHEL 3 / 4 on net5501

2009-03-29 Thread Iustin Pop
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 08:07:01PM +0400, Mohammed Sherif wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to install RHEL 3 Update 9 x86 on a net5501-60 and it fails with > "you are trying to install on a machine which is nt supported by this > release of redhat enterprise Linux." this happens while it is fetching > pac

Re: [Soekris] how does Linux see FC

2008-11-03 Thread Iustin Pop
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 01:00:22AM -0600, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote: > I'm guessing that UUID=4c523ada-a9dc-11dd-9bd0-4951631f6733 that Installer > sets it is wrong. Bassically because to avoid grub problems I install OS > using a vmware machine. The question is, how does kernel find Flash

Re: [Soekris] net4501, Slackware 12, ethernet devices being shuffled

2008-03-18 Thread Iustin Pop
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:00:32AM -0700, T. Marvin wrote: > Nils Vogels wrote: > > IIRC, linux has the possibility to map the physical devices to logical > > devices in the bootloader, by passing options to the kernel, linked to the > > base memoryaddress > > It likely can, though I've never used

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

2007-12-18 Thread Iustin Pop
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 04:31:48PM +0100, Bent wrote: > For what it is worth, here is a measurement done on a 5501 running Gentoo > Linux: > > leopold ~ # hdparm -tT /dev/hda I would not trust hdparm for [any kind of] benchmarking. As I pointed before, use dd with iflag=direct which skips the ca

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

2007-12-17 Thread Iustin Pop
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 11:28:51PM +0100, Pontus wrote: > Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2007/12/17 15:51, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: > > > >> Also, how important is speed? I think a read speed of 20 MB/s is quite > >> sufficient, no? > >> > > > > I don't think you'll get close to 20MB/s. > >

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

2007-11-13 Thread Iustin Pop
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 08:15:46PM +0100, Igor Sobrado wrote: > Hello! > > The problem comes here: if Ctrl-P is not pressed in five seconds the > net5501-70 hangs; so, we must be fast pressing these keys to enter monitor! But isn't the remote reboot feature (documented in a previous post to the l

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

2007-10-07 Thread Iustin Pop
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:10:52AM +0200, Bent wrote: > Hi Balazs > > 2007/10/7, Balazs Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You need to have the serial speed the same in bios, boot loader and kernel. > > > > It is: 19200 b/sec. To be truthful, however, I cannot see why this > could explain the phenomen

Re: [Soekris] How to get portmap module and how to run it

2007-09-21 Thread Iustin Pop
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 01:33:21AM -0700, Ek wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam, >I found the problem of mounting nfs. I want to > develop program via nfs using this commmand as > following. > >cc_2:/# mount -t nfs 192.168.0.1:/home/myname /mnt > > As a result, it can not work (I can not mount nfs).

Re: [Soekris] net5501 BIOS Update

2007-09-20 Thread Iustin Pop
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 12:30:53AM +0200, Soren Kristensen wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > [...] > > I'm working to fix any other remaining issues. Hi Soren, Thanks for the update. Is there a list somewhere with the issues that have been acknowledged by you and that are being worked on? Something lik

Re: [Soekris] What Ethernet driver for the 5501

2007-08-12 Thread Iustin Pop
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 07:50:23PM +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bent > writes: > >Hi > > > >When I PXE-boot my 5501 all goes well up to a certain point: > > Somebody should port if_vr from FreeBSD to Linux. That's not needed, really. My 5501 works perfectly w

Re: [Soekris] 5501 console "Easteregg"

2007-08-10 Thread Iustin Pop
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 06:26:42AM +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > There's a little secret about the 5501 which S�ren hasn't sad much > about yet: The 5501 has a simple "lights out" feature on the console > port. > [...] > I belive this only works at 19200 speed. I just tested it, and the rese

Re: [Soekris] net5501 and linux results

2007-06-30 Thread Iustin Pop
On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 07:56:01PM +0200, Hans Harder wrote: > Iustin, > > watchdog driver should be handled by the module geodewdt Strange, I can't find it: linux-2.6.21.5$ find -name 'geode*' ./drivers/char/hw_random/geode-rng.c ./drivers/crypto/geode-aes.c ./drivers/crypto/geode-aes.h ./drivers

[Soekris] net5501 and linux results

2007-06-24 Thread Iustin Pop
In case anyone is interested in running linux on the net5501, here are my initial results. I use a sandisk ultra-3 2G card (SanDisk SDCFX3-2048). Debian etch installs without problems. I compiled then 2.6.21.5 and I have a few issues, not critical I would say: - the compact flash card is not det

Re: [Soekris] "Lockup" update

2007-04-03 Thread Iustin Pop
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 02:17:44PM +0200, Richard Homonnai wrote: > That is exactly what I meant. The name is quite a bad choose, but this is > definitely it. It says "if /dev/wdX is not open, don't start (or halt if > already started) the watchdog timer." So, if you are in boot > process, /dev/

Re: [Soekris] "Lockup" update

2007-03-30 Thread Iustin Pop
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 11:07:54AM +0200, Bill Maas wrote: > If I understood the OpenBSD manual well, all the watchdog does is > determine (by nature) that job scheduling fails. Which indicates that > the kernel is in some erratic state, which in turn suggests that it's > operation in general shoul

Re: [Soekris] Soekris] 4801 thats stopped responding

2007-03-29 Thread Iustin Pop
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 05:52:08PM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > Anyway, on linux I never had any problems with the watchdog, so I assume > > that the hardware watchdog works. > > > I would think the FreeBSD one works too. What I meant - read my post - is that the soekris *hardware*

Re: [Soekris] Soekris] 4801 thats stopped responding

2007-03-29 Thread Iustin Pop
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 03:57:18PM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > Like : > > watchdogd -s 15 -t 120 > > it should be operating correctly. But about 10 hours in, > it seems the system was still operational within 5 seconds of > the time it rebooted. I've now changed it to : >

Re: [Soekris] 4801 thats stopped responding

2007-03-29 Thread Iustin Pop
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 03:56:03PM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:58:43PM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > > So my final option is a cold boot? Anything to do for future > > > times this happens? > > > > Well, I don't know about FreeBSD, but on Linux I u

Re: [Soekris] 4801 thats stopped responding

2007-03-26 Thread Iustin Pop
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:58:43PM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > So my final option is a cold boot? Anything to do for future > times this happens? Well, I don't know about FreeBSD, but on Linux I use a watchdog daemon in combination with the hardware support present in the soekris. So,