Re: [Soekris] Two PCI peripherals on one unit?

2008-08-22 Thread Maurice Janssen
On Friday, August 22, 2008 at 10:55:37 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: I'm looking into a project that appears to require two PCI cards operating at the same time: one 4 port serial PCI card and one PCI Dual ethernet board. Why not use serial ports over USB? Maurice

Re: [Soekris] Two PCI peripherals on one unit?

2008-08-22 Thread Maurice Janssen
On Friday, August 22, 2008 at 11:19:24 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: Maurice Janssen wrote: On Friday, August 22, 2008 at 10:55:37 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: I'm looking into a project that appears to require two PCI cards operating at the same time: one 4 port serial PCI card and one PCI Dual

Re: [Soekris] PXE Installation of OpenBSD 4.2 on Soekris 4801

2007-12-20 Thread Maurice Janssen
On Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 15:56:05 -0600, Preston Kutzner wrote: Doesn't look like you chose to set the default console to your serial port. You'll need to re-install and make sure to choose that option during setup. That's not necessary if sshd is running. The machine will boot fine,

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

2007-12-17 Thread Maurice Janssen
On Monday, December 17, 2007 at 11:06:24 -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Wear leveling would be nice, but it looks like it might be cheaper to Recompiling OpenBSD on a remotely deployed CF is a situation that you can avoid by using my bsd-appliance framework. I've been meaning to release some

Re: [Soekris] Power Supply

2007-09-27 Thread Maurice Janssen
On Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 14:57:01 -0400, Bob Keyes wrote: We've had a small bit of unreliable activity from the net4826. There's no manual for the net4826, but I am generally referred to the net4801 manual when I have questions on it. It says, regarding power, ... a small wall mount

Re: [Soekris] openbsd won't boot from net4801 after pxe installation

2007-09-19 Thread Maurice Janssen
On Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 08:40:50 -0700, Vincent Li wrote: snip Then I typed reboot at prompt, it reboot and hangs here: --- boot booting hd0a:/bsd:5567348+871228 [52+283664+263996]=0x6a9ba4 entry point at 0x200120 - does this mean that the bootloader boot OpenBSD from

Re: [Soekris] Soekris model recommendation for OpenBSD + SPAMD

2007-09-07 Thread Maurice Janssen
On Friday, September 7, 2007 at 14:33:23 -0700, Vincent Li wrote: Is it worth to compile and install custom OpenBSD kernel for net4801 using flashdist? will general OpenBSD kernel be fine? I've been using the GENERIC kernel with a 4501 and a 4801 without any problem. It's possible that there

Re: [Soekris] trouble with net4826 and powered USB hub

2007-07-25 Thread Maurice Janssen
On Wednesday, July 25, 2007 at 06:53:37 +0200, Maurice Janssen wrote: Perhaps the GND levels of the DWL-P50's is different when set to 5 or 12 Volt output? That would cause a short-circuit current that destroys the USB port. You can measure the voltage between GND of two adapaters without

Re: [Soekris] trouble with net4826 and powered USB hub

2007-07-24 Thread Maurice Janssen
On Wednesday, July 25, 2007 at 02:24:43 +0100, Brad Karp wrote: Greetings, all. We're using about a dozen net4826 boxes here, and we need to connect a few USB devices to each box via a single USB hub. We power each net4826 box using PoE supplied by an HP PoE switch, through a D-Link DWL-P50 PoE