Re: [Soekris] 1G optical NIC for 6501

On 4/20/12 23:57 , Dan Shechter wrote: > Hi All, > > Looking for a 1G optical NIC for 6501. Most NICs I can find on ebay > look too big to fit the tiny PCI Express socket on the soekris. > > Any recommendations? google search says: http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&gs_mss=pci-e+1x+o&

Re: [Soekris] Soekris-tech Digest, Vol 93, Issue 5

On 11/6/11 05:21 , Alvar Kusma wrote: > > Net6501 and case on my desk and looking at the > > 2.5" drive mounting bracket and asking "why is that drive mounting > > bracket needed at all?" > > As we all probably know, case design is not a stronger part of Soekris > team at all (constant overhea

Re: [Soekris] net6501 802.11

On 9/12/11 00:24 , Randy Bush wrote: > have an 5501 running freebsd-8 happily with a 8G CF and a metrix atheros > wifi card that i can no longer see on their site > > > is there a recommended wireless card for the 6501 with fr

Re: [Soekris] New model net6501 - To start shipping

On 9/10/11 11:00 , Lonnie Abelbeck wrote: > > On Sep 6, 2011, at 8:18 PM, Soren Kristensen wrote: > >> We recommend to use mSATA SSD for booting, and have ordered a number of >> Transcend mSATA SSD's in 2G SLC, 4G SLC, 16G MLC and 32G MLC sizes, >> those should be here in about 2 weeks. > > Di

Re: [Soekris] extreme cold deployment

With reasonable insulation the box will keep itself warm, that likely can prevent interior condensation as well. On 9/6/11 13:18 , Mike Tancsa wrote: > For our city's Winter festival, I wanted to put together a simple IVR in > a booth that would be outside in the depths of winter. The idea is the

Re: [Soekris] CF card and fast filesystem corruption

On 8/27/11 12:48 , Randy Bush wrote: >> So, in a previous life we encountered signficant trouble with >> interactions between kernel drivers and the power managment >> implementation of CF cards optimized for cameras. this caused alll >> sorts of errors at the time, which changed subtantially how w

Re: [Soekris] CF card and fast filesystem corruption

On 8/26/11 00:04 , Embedding Linux wrote: > Hi Joel, > > On 26/08/11 06:00, Joel jaeggli wrote: >>> But we are getting filesystem corruption errors quite quickly, even >>> without significant fs activity. Error is usually >>> "htree_dirblock_to_tree: bad e

Re: [Soekris] CF card and fast filesystem corruption

On 8/23/11 06:01 , Embedding Linux wrote: > Hello, > > We got our net5501 up and running on Gentoo Linux, with a few troubles > here and there. > > But we are getting filesystem corruption errors quite quickly, even > without significant fs activity. Error is usually > "htree_dirblock_to_tree: ba

Re: [Soekris] CF card and fast filesystem corruption

On 8/24/11 07:55 , Michael Sierchio wrote: > If you *must* mount a CF-backed filesystem read-write, you do want to > minimize writes. Mount it rw,noatime. Use fifolog for logging and > the like. Don't use an ext3 filesystem, or any other logging > filesystem - the logging and metadata writes are

Re: [Soekris] Will a 15MM tall 2.5" hard drive fit in a 5501 or 6501 case?

I don't belive it will, with the standoffs for the hd bracket the hs is mounted above the board... more to the point 3 platter disks are more power hungry than 2 platter and the margin for cooling is already limited. joel On Aug 19, 2011, at 9:31 AM, Walton, Bryan K wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm

Re: [Soekris] 1588-capable NICs?

On Jul 18, 2011, at 7:30 PM, Harlan Stenn wrote: > Mike wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:09:33PM -0700, Harlan Stenn wrote: >>> I gather the Intel 82574 NIC has support for IEEE-1588/PTP (client >>> side). Assuming this is true, which soekris boards have this chip in >>> them? >>> >>> Perha

Re: [Soekris] comBIOS ver. 1.33 sees wrong disk size

On Jul 5, 2011, at 8:12 AM, Soren Kristensen wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > Joel Jaeggli wrote: >> >> On Jul 5, 2011, at 7:49 AM, der Mouse wrote: >>> I assume there's a 28-bit >>> block number field somewhere or some such, but that's just guessin

Re: [Soekris] comBIOS ver. 1.33 sees wrong disk size

On Jul 5, 2011, at 7:49 AM, der Mouse wrote: > I assume there's a 28-bit > block number field somewhere or some such, but that's just guessing.) yes 28bit addressing was supplanted by 48bit lba, but not here clearly. > /~\ The ASCII Mouse > \ / Ribbon Campaign > X Agai

Re: [Soekris] Net5501 + Samsung HD204UI 3.5" hdd + 1 slot standard case

switch mode power supplies with 12 volt and 5 volt outputs are about as common as anything gets basically any 3.5" disk enclosure has one in it... here's one with a molex connector on end... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812123309 mostly it's a question of what form fact

Re: [Soekris] 4801 not seeing CF

I had problems with a number of transcend cards on the 4801 and 5501 until I upgraded to from the shipping to the latest bios (1.33c on the 5501) since then I've been using the udma mode 4 x133 16GB cards probably since 2008)... On Jul 1, 2011, at 1:45 PM, Alvar Kusma wrote: >> the soekris bios

Re: [Soekris] Net5501 + Samsung HD204UI 3.5" hdd + 1 slot standard case

Samsung is in selling this business line to seagate. there won't be any samsung disks here shortly. Given that maximum inrush current at start is still in the neighborhood of 1.5A @ 12 volt I'd say it's a risky proposition. 2.5" drives go out to 1TB these days without much drama, the 3 platter

Re: [Soekris] 4501 console serial issue

most of the info is hiding in the manuals for the other boards since their bioses are similar or on the unofficial wiki... http://wiki.soekris.info/Main_Page On Jun 27, 2011, at 10:47 PM, der Mouse wrote: > Back some 12-14 hours ago, I wrote > I recently got a 4501 [...console serial isn

Re: [Soekris] 4501 console serial issue

it is a the same pinout as a pc so if you got nothing on the console with a rollover cable then you may well have a bad port... the console speed defaults to 19200k lots of sensible people set them to 9600... swapping power supplies is a worthwhile test but since you have a multimelter you've

Re: [Soekris] Using net5501 as a switch

On Jun 13, 2011, at 12:38 AM, der Mouse wrote: >> Their RB450G, RB750G, and some other new boards incorporate dedicated >> switch controllers wired to the onboard ethernet ports. [...] > >> Wouldn't it be nice to have something like this on our Soekris >> boards? > > Provided the hardware is p

Re: [Soekris] Using net5501 as a switch

On Jun 12, 2011, at 4:04 AM, Aragon Gouveia wrote: > While we're on this subject I thought I'd bring up something that > MikroTik are doing with some of their Routerboards. Could be a nice to > have feature on future Soekris boards too! > > Their RB450G, RB750G, and some other new boards inc

Re: [Soekris] Using net5501 as a switch

On Jun 11, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: > On 6/11/11 6:51 PM, RB wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 08:27, Lars Noodén wrote: >>> Would that mean that a pair of machines transferring at full speed on >>> eth0 and eth1 would not reduce the available bandwidth for another pair >>> on eth2 a

Re: [Soekris] Using net5501 as a switch

it is an l2 switch if you're using it in bridge mode... the ports are just ethernet interfaces so all your switching is being done in software if that's what you're asking. joel On Jun 11, 2011, at 2:37 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: > I'm using a net5501 in bridged[1] mode on Debian. Where should I

Re: [Soekris] net6501 pci-e lanes question

On Jun 6, 2011, at 5:16 AM, Soren Kristensen wrote: > soek...@custodes.info wrote: >> >> On Jun 5, 2011, at 9:38 PM, Adam Schrotenboer wrote: >>> On 6/5/11 3:54 PM, soek...@custodes.info wrote: Ok, the chip is from 3Q'10 and PCI-E 3.0 is from November 2010, but 1.0a is a bit silly too.

Re: [Soekris] net6501 pci-e lanes question

On Jun 5, 2011, at 11:56 AM, soek...@custodes.info wrote: > On Jun 4, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Soren Kristensen wrote: > >> Hi Adam, >> >> Adam Schrotenboer wrote: >>> On 6/4/11 4:31 AM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: >>>> The slot in the 6501 picture is x1 >&g

Re: [Soekris] net6501 pci-e lanes question

The slot in the 6501 picture is x1 On Jun 3, 2011, at 12:29 PM, soek...@custodes.info wrote: > It looks like the upcoming net6501 only has one single-lane pci express > header. Will this header accept an x4 card running at x1 speeds or will only > x1 cards physically fit? > ___

Re: [Soekris] Net5501 with 1TB Sata HDD

On May 21, 2011, at 3:08 PM, JF Straeten wrote: > > Re, > > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 04:31:55PM -0500, Oziko Fusion wrote: > >> I want to install a 1TB Sata HDD on my Soekris Net5501, does any one >> knows if this deve will support that HardDisk? > > You should throw an eye here :-/ the segat

Re: [Soekris] Could anybody give me advices about Mini-PCIe powerful WiFi card fot net6501?

On 5/8/11 11:58 PM, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, Soekris-tech. > > Now I'm using net5501-70 with Senao 600mW Mini-PCI WiFi card > (802.11abg). I had good expirience with some noname 1000mW card too > (till I turned it on without antennas attached and ooops... > overheat). Both are Atheros-base

Re: [Soekris] Life expectancy of a compact flash?

On 4/12/11 11:44 AM, M. Moore wrote: > I could be wrong, but I thought the solid state devices were good for a > million writes. There are vendors who will sell you a card with a capacity of a million write cycles suhc a product tends to have rather more cells then they expose... A more common nu

Re: [Soekris] RAID1

On 4/6/11 10:38 AM, Jan Ceuleers wrote: > On 04/04/11 14:33, Francesco Trentini wrote: >> sorry if this is not the proper channel, but I remember a discussion on >> Soekris list time ago about the possibility of the inclusion of a simple >> RAID1 chip on board. >> >> Due to the imminent new board 6

Re: [Soekris] New model net6501

On 4/1/11 6:15 AM, loppefaaret wrote: > could someone link to the pics ? they're on the website... http://soekris.com/net6501.htm > 2011/4/1 Marco A. Calamari mailto:marc...@dada.it>> > > On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 17:06 -0700, Soren Kristensen wrote: > > Hi Everybody, > > > > I now

Re: [Soekris] Power supplies woes

Sizing is important. got one kind of load on your 5501 and the 1.5 amp supply is fine, got another and you need a bigger one. 12volt power supplies aren't particularly rare or special so I think there's some assumption that you'll chose one most appropriate to you application. On 3/8/11 9:38 AM,

Re: [Soekris] Debian Squeeze on Soekris - The EASY Way

On 2/28/11 8:52 AM, David Burgess wrote: >> Do you mean re-writing the same file over and over, or just using a CF card >> for a drive? > > Every cell of flash memory is good for a certain number of writes > before that cell becomes effectively read-only. If your fs is > read-write, you don't hav

Re: [Soekris] New model net6501

On 2/1/11 11:38 AM, Aragon Gouveia wrote: > On 02/01/11 21:24, RB wrote: >> Although not used in high-capacity cells (mostly due to patent >> issues), it works very well in small applications - it's trivial and > > I'm curious to know more about these patent issues? my car has 158 5.5ah nimh cell

Re: [Soekris] 5501 problems, it's not flash

Any 12v 1.5 amp or larger brick should do the trick. Joel's widget number 2 On Oct 27, 2010, at 0:39, Randy Bush wrote: > in the last installment, our hero was trying to restore what he thought > was a borked CF flash system. well, he found an old SATA drive that > booted and looked at the fla

Re: [Soekris] Soekris net5501-70 crash a lot

I've had couple a 5501 in the enclosure with a wireless card, and a 4GB CF since 2008. they're fine... One that I has with two wireless nics a hard-drive and a usb gps required active cooling, unsurprising given that it required a larger power supply as well. On 9/21/10 1:35 AM, Stanislav Meduna

Re: [Soekris] how to xfer an OS/install from a VirtualBoxVM to a running Soekris, over the network?

On 8/13/10 8:45 AM, David Burgess wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > >>> Now, the question is -- how most effectively to get that .img "onto" >>> the actual Soekris hard drive? > > Sorry for my ignorance of FreeBSD, but if th

Re: [Soekris] how to xfer an OS/install from a VirtualBoxVM to a running Soekris, over the network?

On 8/13/10 8:29 AM, Ben DJ wrote: > hi, > > I have a Soekris 4801 running an old version of FreeBSD 6.3, installed > to & booting from an internal hard drive. > > I'm planning to upgrade it to FreeBSD 8.1. Rather than building it on > the Soekris, a slow process at best, I'd like to build 'elsew

Re: [Soekris] (SOEKRIS) Question About NIC

it's a 32 bit 33mhz pci slot so that isn't going to cut it... performance wise, there are certainly gigabit ethernet cards that can be installed. On 2010-07-09 14:20, Jorge Severino wrote: > > Hi: > > Exist NIC with support for 1000Mbps traffic in Soekris 5510 o other? > > Thanks. > > Atte > Jo

Re: [Soekris] Soekris with solar energy

the normal way would be to start with the base system, measure that with an ammeter and then keep adding components. note that putting the system and subsystem under load will increase power consumption relative to idle. On 2010-05-20 07:27, Mohamed Nouaouri wrote: > Hi i'm new in the soekrisli

Re: [Soekris] Debian5/GRUB installation problems

On 03/09/2010 09:51 AM, Darryl Miles wrote: > Andrew Thomas wrote: >> 1.33c gave me the option to boot from a CF card - as it would with 1.33. > > I'm not sure I understand your response. > > > The only storage I have installed is the CF card. I have it working > providing I make the /boot p

Re: [Soekris] Power Over Ethernet on Net5501

pairs 45 78). Are both covered by 802.3af... what isn't covered is injecting 12-24vdc down 26awg cat-5. the voltage drop is too severe at 100base-t supported distances, and if you pull sufficient current you cause a fire. > Matthew Kaufman > > (Sent from my iPhone) > > On Ma

Re: [Soekris] Power Over Ethernet on Net5501

On 03/01/2010 07:35 AM, Paul Bartell wrote: > Um i think you are mistaken. The 5501 board will not provide Power > over ethernet but rather can be powered by power over ethernet. You > could do some kind of sketchy soldering to make it provide power, but > that would surely void the warranty. You n

Re: [Soekris] Power Over Ethernet on Net5501

The 5501 offers no poe ports. doing so would require a 56v power supply and about 15.6watts per port. The phone can and should be powered by a mid-span 802.3af poe injector. joel On 03/01/2010 07:28 AM, Jose Valdivia wrote: > Hello, > > Do I have to load some modules or configure in someway my s

Re: [Soekris] Seagate Barracuda 750G SATA not working on net5501

On 02/28/2010 10:39 AM, Henrik /KaarPoSoft wrote: > Dear Joel and Jed. > > Thank you very much for your input! > > When I purchased the net5501 I was aware of the limitations of CPU and > RAM, but it seems I was an ignorant when it comes to power a harddisk ))-: > > The whole point of this "pr

Re: [Soekris] powering a net5501 from a car battery

Regarding damaging it, it shouldn't but the current draw is going to go up on the battery as the voltage drops. one could protect the battery by disconnecting the soekris automatically with an undervoltage protection device... the could be a simple as NO relay with a stack of resistors in front of

Re: [Soekris] Seagate Barracuda 750G SATA not working on net5501

Hm... and I assumed you were powering it externally given the huge disk. the caps on the motherboard are I imagine not sufficient to cope with the inrush current requirements of a 3.5" disk. once you've verified the external power upply source works, one altenative is to power the soekris off a la

Re: [Soekris] Does 2.5" 1/6H hard disk fit in the net5501 standard case?

er Dissipation > Read/Write 2.50 Watts > Idle 0.85 Watts > Standby 0.25 Watts > Sleep 0.10 Watts > > So how can one model run hotter than the other, if the power I feed them > is the same? > > /Henrik > > On 22/02/2010 00:50 "Joel Jaeggli" > <

Re: [Soekris] Does 2.5" 1/6H hard disk fit in the net5501 standard case?

One thing to note (appart from the suggestions you've already received) that the 1tb model is three platters (hence the extra height) and runs a bit hotter than the analogous 640GB two platter model. Henrik /KaarPoSoft wrote: > Dear all, > > I am considering to purchase a net5501 and build it int

Re: [Soekris] Soekris 5501 with SSD disks

Jordan Share wrote: > On 2/3/2010 1:21 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message<4b69cd90.8080...@krotus.com>, Jordan Share writes: >>> On 2/3/2010 6:18 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Well, you can >>> always partition the disk in half, and literally never write to >>> the "last half" of the disk

Re: [Soekris] FreeBSD is missing my serial ports

two serial ports appear in your dmesg, if you expect more either your card isn't being detected for some reason or you're missing a device driver. Ebbe Hjorth wrote: > Hi, > > I installed FreeBSD v8.0 on my laptop, and moved the harddrive to my > Soekris 5501 with an extra serial port. > > Now i

Re: [Soekris] New models?

There's the canonical problem of building something like this taking longer than it should. I thought that intel EP80579 looked quite promising for a while but frankly it's too thirsty in usable form to power with poe. atoms are a 3 chip solution with the 945G having a TDP of 6-11w which is jus

Re: [Soekris] Cloning a bootable CF

or just add additional partitions. Darrick Hartman wrote: > Marco A. Calamari wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:51 +0100, Flemming Jacobsen wrote: >>> Hey >>> >>> Why don't you just clone it using dd: >>> Insert old card >>> dd if=/dev/DEVICE of=/tmp/soekris.image bs=64k >>> Insert new ca

Re: [Soekris] Second Serial Port?

You are correct the second serial port is on a 10 pin header (jp4) adjacent to the Compact flash slot on the right hand side of the board. It can be connected to a db9 serial port with a fairly standard serial to db9 ribbon cable with the caveat that frequently the 10th pin with be clipped in orde

Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS

Yakout Esmat wrote: > With VMWare, which disk type should we use IDE or SCSI? scsi is the default, you want ide... joel > -Original Message- > From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:joe...@bogus.com] > Sent: Friday, 6 November 2009 10:56 a.m. > To: Yakout Esmat > Cc: 'B

Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS

Rhel-5 has been run on the 5501. At some point it required that the kernel rpm by recompiled or that the powernow_k8 module be blacklisted in orderto to preclude a geode specific oops, don't know if that was still the case. Regarding installation to a cf card it's pretty trivial to create a syste

Re: [Soekris] 802.11n card for net5501-70

I would use a mini-pci rather than pci atheros. there are a number of them to chose from... and they don't have the issue of 5v vs 3.3 that some of the desktop cards do. metrix has quite a list if you want to select that appropiate set of features... http://www.metrix.net/wireless-cardsadapters-m

Re: [Soekris] Soekris with Video camera

... > > Steve > On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 14:25 -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote: >> usb is the most convenient route... >> >> given the you're working you want to avoid transcoding if possible, in >> any event the hamsters don't run very fast... >> >>

Re: [Soekris] Soekris with Video camera

usb is the most convenient route... given the you're working you want to avoid transcoding if possible, in any event the hamsters don't run very fast... joel S. M. Sajeeb SMS wrote: > Hi, > > I want to interface a video camera with Soekris box to capture video > from the camera and to transfer

Re: [Soekris] Hi, few questions about the Soekris Net4801-60

Nathan Wainwright wrote: > Just got this device this weekend. > > I'm trying to figure out what hardware I can add to this via Mini-PCI, > PCI, and USB... without overloading the system. > > Here's the current "wishlist" for the device. > > - Wifi BGN (was thinking via the Mini-PCI) > - Webcam

Re: [Soekris] net5501, can't install pfsense, both serial ports not working

Marc Balmer wrote: > > Am 25.08.2009 um 19:34 schrieb Joel Jaeggli: > >> >> >> William Estrada wrote: >>>>>> Now I have another problem, it seems my serial ports (both) on the >>>>>> soekris >>>>>> are not worki

Re: [Soekris] net5501, can't install pfsense, both serial ports not working

William Estrada wrote: Now I have another problem, it seems my serial ports (both) on the soekris are not working. I plugged in the null cable to my MB (ASUS P5Q Deluxe) and into the 5501, powered on the soekris, but nothing is showing up in Putty. > Are you sure you

Re: [Soekris] Help in identifying connector

some observation on old proxim cards, By in large, old proxim pcmcia/cardbus cards use mcx connectors while old cisco/aironet use mmcx. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCX_connector Normally it ends up looking like a C because one of the legs of the shield breaks off in the connector. It's not desg

Re: [Soekris] Readdressing the "cooling" question....

AMuse wrote: > I'm glad to get back to the crux of the issue, which is reducing heat :) > > I don't need any HDD drives. A 1GB flash is enough for my needs, which > are very specific. With 512MB of RAM the Net5501 should hold all my > projects in RAM and on a RAMDisk so I'm not even worried a

Re: [Soekris] Readdressing the "cooling" question....

Alex Samad wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:13:52AM -0400, Steve Clark wrote: >> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>> In message <4a6060f4.4050...@netwolves.com>, Steve Clark writes: >>> I am using a 4GB Transcend CF 266x exterme speed to run CentOS with a lot of read/write activity. I

Re: [Soekris] Readdressing the "cooling" question....

I've seen some inexpensive iterations of ssd that in fact use more power than disks (also see the toms hardware article on the subject). not something I've ever had happen with a CF card. I have some early example of super tallent 16GB MLC sata SSDs from 2007 which aren't to bad on the power front

Re: [Soekris] Readdressing the "cooling" question....

der Mouse wrote: >> However most of these will be in a fairly hot environment (about 90 >> to 100 degree outside temperature at most) and will be in direct >> sunlight for most of the day. > > (I trust those temperatures are Fahrenheit? :) > >> Naturally with that kind of abuse I'm wondering if

Re: [Soekris] Readdressing the "cooling" question....

If it's going in an outdoor grade sealed enclosure I'd Just paint it white, and and not use a hard-drive. I've not had one fail due to heat unless there was a hard-drive on top of the processor. if the a-card were one of those ubiquiti ultra high powerd A cards I might give some consideration to

Re: [Soekris] Soekris Booting Problem

Hendrickson, Kenneth wrote: > > PS My BIOS is 1.33. No c. No i. Just 1.33. > Will upgrading my BIOS solve these problems?? In my general experience upgrading the bios of a working system is a bad idea. That said your's isn't so I'd give it a shot. I have a couple systems that required updates

Re: [Soekris] Xen on net5501 (Ubuntu or Fedora) ?

Daniel wrote: > According to Xen Wiki, "Xen currently runs only on the x86 architecture, > requiring a "P6" or newer processor". > > On the Fedora FTP server, I couldn't find Xen kernel for i386. Fedora > only provides Xen kernel for i686 architecture. > (net5501 must not be equivalent to i686 an

Re: [Soekris] building first image

Well, a paravirtualized environment is going ot be a bit different than the 4521. An full on emulated one like bochs or qemu is going to be able to get a lot closer to what a 45xx system is like. back when I had 4521's I would occasionally forget and build something important for pentium or i686 w

Re: [Soekris] Inquiry about net5501

sadly the one you'd really want to use off that list is 5 volt... PCI122-DFlex I have used on an industrial mini-itx mainboard and fitting it in a normal 1u enclosure is indeed something of a challenge. Alex Hajnal wrote: > You should be able to use any PCI riser though you might encounter power

Re: [Soekris] Net4801 and SSD?

compact flash is parallel-ata 44 pin pata interface ssd's do exist for legacy legacy applications for the most part they're no fasher than a high-end cf card. some of the sata ssd's are quite a bit faster, but then again if you needed it to go really fast you wouldn't be using a 4801 anyway.

Re: [Soekris] Fail to boot with equipment connected to serial port

The 1-wire device is attached to the primary serial port? then it's the console flow control or lack thereof in this case, I'd eithr attach it to the second serail port or to a usb serial interface. Asle Festø wrote: > Hello, I'm a newbie trying to learn about these fascinating little > devices.

Re: [Soekris] Net5501 - Debian 4.0 "Etch" - from EIDE to SATA

The 5501's sata port isn't on a sata controller. It's a pata sata bridge attached to the parallel ata interface. Joel Diego Pastore wrote: >Hi Nix, > >I dist-upgraded to Debian "Lenny" 5.0 and now I've 2.6.26 kernel. > >And yes, I use a Debian stock kernel and stock initrd image, but I'd >li

Re: [Soekris] What are the changes in BIOS 1.33c for net5501?

If it doesn't boot off your current flash I'd upgrade. ;) If everything works I wouldn't touch it. joel Maxim Khitrov wrote: > Hello all, > > The changelog [1] doesn't mention BIOS version 1.33c. I currently have > 1.33 installed, is an update recommended? > > - Max > > [1] http://www.soekris

Re: [Soekris] net5501 and a PCI sound card

martin f krafft wrote: > I suppose it just has too little power. That's a bit of a shame > since it means I now have to hunt down another power supply. > Ordering another one from Soekris is definitely not an option, since > I don't want to pay another €40 for shipping and €5 to be allowed to > p

Re: [Soekris] Problems Booting a net5501 from a CF card

In case anyone cares three consumer cards that I have used recently in conjunction with 1.33c that work are: Transcend TS16GCF133 - 16GB "133x" TS8GCF266 - 8GB "266x" Ridata RDCF16G-233X-LIG - 16GB "233x" due to cable detection and my lack of d

Re: [Soekris] (no subject)

lolailo wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 02:21:47PM +0200, lolailo wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a Net4801, 100GB HD, SanDisk 1GB CF and an Atheros wifi card. I >> had installed Voyage 0.6.0, it was working fine, until it started to >> make noise, sounded like the hard drive and the first green red a

Re: [Soekris] RHEL 3 / 4 on net5501

It's likely that the installer for update 9 no longer has support for pentium/586 installations. You may find that an earlier version of rhel 3 still does and that once installed it should work that said. Rhel3 is rather old, it wouldn't for example be my first choice... There are instructions

Re: [Soekris] Thinking about an SSD

depending on how fast your cf card is, a faster one may also be sufficient. David Alexander wrote: > I have a net5501 that I use as a general server. It runs completely > off a 16GB CF card. It does a great job for the most part, however > there are a few occasions where I think the CF is slowi

Re: [Soekris] Questions about net5501

Matthew Kaufman wrote: > I sent mail directly to Soekris regarding these, but rather than wait > for my answer I thought I might ask the list for other expert opinions: > > 1) For my application, I need to put a 4-channel (4 in, 4 out at 96 kHz) > PCI digital audio card (specifically, the M-Audi

Re: [Soekris] net5501 and Ubiquiti SR71-A Wifi miniPCI card

Przemyslaw Maszenda wrote: > Hello > > What do you think, (maybe someone has an experience with?), about WiFi > mini-PCI from Ubiquiti model SR71-A in Soekris net5501? > This is HIGH power miniPCI card on Atheros chipset. Quick spec: > > - 32-bit mini-PCI Type IIIA/3.3 V DC > - Max Avg. Current

Re: [Soekris] SATA connector information

philippe monroux wrote: > I everybody, > > I'm a lucky (?) owner of one WD Mybook studio II (raid 1 configured + > ntfs file system). The sata connecter is on a pata/sata bridge connected to the geode's ata/ide controller.. You can see the marvell bridge in the upper right hand corner of the boa

Re: [Soekris] What cable to look for

Ralph Green wrote: > Howdy, > I have a couple of Soekris 4521 boards and a case for one of them from > Soekris. I want to make one into a wireless access point and I can't > tell what I need to buy for a cable. > I am not committed to any wireless card yet. I think I found a card > that shoul

Re: [Soekris] E1 to 30 analog phones

Yeah, separate the functionality a bit more... one plausible scenario might look like: If you want an asterisk running on a soekris, do that, but put the e1/ip gateway in another box, eg a redfone... then put the fsx interfaces close to the phones (atas), or if there's a number of them close tog

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

nging down here at the low end. > On Wednesday 18 February 2009 11:38:29 Joel Jaeggli wrote: >> RB wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:14, Gerald Leier > wrote: >>>> I am looking toward the net4501 and its mini-pci socket and am wondering >>>> i

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

RB wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:14, Gerald Leier wrote: >> I am looking toward the net4501 and its mini-pci socket and am wondering >> if there are gigabit-friendly NICs available, and supported for this >> form factor. > > As has been noted many times on this list, there's no way the 4501

Re: [Soekris] impossible to link eth1, eth2, eth3 but eth0 is well working

David Alexander wrote: > On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 18:56:00 +0100, Thorsten Mühlfelder > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi >> Use bridge-utils to set up a bridge over all eth ports. So will have only >> one IP on all adresses. > > Several people here assume you want a bridge to tie all your > interfac

Re: [Soekris] Soekris Alternatives

Bernd Walter wrote: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 01:38:50PM -0700, Sargun Dhillon wrote: >> Well, In my mind Soekris has lost its reputation. I am asking because I >> assume the people here know this field. I am willing to move back to >> Soekris once they "prove" they are a business solution yet ag

Re: [Soekris] gigabit interface

Omer Faruk SEN wrote: > > > Hi , > > > Can anyone suggest me an embedded pc with good PCI-X port so I can plug > Gigabit interface to it? As far as I know > (from http://wiki.soekris.info/Tuning_net5501_openbsd ) we can't achieve > it with soekris becuase it has 33 mhz bus. The further we ge

Re: [Soekris] SanDisk 64 MB Compact Flash Cards

Ryan Corder wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 12:33:58AM +0700, Soekris Maillist wrote: > | Anyone know where to buy these? > | > | The smallest ones I can find here in Thailand seems to be 2 GB, which is > | extreme overkill for a 16 MB image. > > If you do find anything that small, please let AL

Re: [Soekris] Hard drives for the Net5501: Travelstar?

Martin Johnson wrote: > I'm about to build a couple of modest NET5501 servers, so I'm looking > for some 2.5-inch hard disks that can tolerate 24*7 running. The > Travelstar E5K and E7K ranges looks plausible for this job: > > http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/products/travelstar

Re: [Soekris] Hardware recommendations

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello List, > > we are currently looking for some powerfull Hardware. It must have: > - Intel Pentium Mobile (>= 1,6GHz) > - 2,5" Hard Disk (Slot) > - Min 1GB Ram > - Min 3 Interfaces > - VGA is optional That's a more powerful appliance than is currently fielded in a so

Re: [Soekris] "Squashed" versions of FreeBSD

Brian W. Antoine wrote: >> I may be wrong, but I didn't think the failure mode would be >> a "sudden and unexpected" downtime. I had assumed I'd start to >> see read/write errors like you see when a HDD slowly gets >> bad sectors. However, rethinking that, I'm not sure what to >> expect. > > It de

Re: [Soekris] "Squashed" versions of FreeBSD

Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 11:28:15AM +0200, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: >> 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

Re: [Soekris] Access point software?

It sounds like you really do want monowall just that you need to make some specific config changes after the install and before they're suiate for use... specifically in this case once the third interface has been assigned you need to tell it to bridge the wireless and lan interfaces. given th

Re: [Soekris] monowall bootup

what's the manufacturer of the cf? I run monowall on some 70s so I'd speculate it's not an across the board issue. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a 5501-60 > I loaded monowall generic PC v1.233 generic version on a 256 CF > Bios version is 1.33 on the Soekris > When the unit is powered on it

Re: [Soekris] Compatibility Issue w/ Soekris 5501 and Cisco 2640 Switch

Chris Babcock wrote: > I have also seen similar behavior with devices that do auto MDI<->MDIX > setting with some devices. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if there is a > way to control the MDI/MDIX function in software. Anybody, here know if > there is a way to control that in software? auto md

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

Bent wrote: > 2008/5/1 Joel Jaeggli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Lets put it plainly... 4 x 600Mw radios in a single pci carrier is going >> to result in at best poor performance. heck two 100Mw radios in the >> same box can have issues if care is not exercised. >>

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

Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2008-05-01, Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 12:49:39PM +0900, Izumi Utakoji wrote: >>> 600mW high power card from Engenius EMP-8602+S > N.B. if you search the mailing list archives (marc/gmane) you'll find > various warnings about runni

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