Re: [Soekris] How I fixed a dead net6501 (Red Light Of Death)

2018-02-15 Thread Peter J. Holzer
king life (7000 hours, quite long for this type of > component). Is 7000 hours really quite long? A device like the Soekris is supposed to run 24x7 - and at 24 hours a day 7000 hours are less than 10 months. I would expect a working life of at least 5 years or 45000 hours for any component used in a comput

Re: [Soekris] net6501: doesn't start if not first unplugged for 8 minutes

2017-04-20 Thread Peter J. Holzer
eir existing products at about the time Soren stopped posting. That's now almost 4 years ago. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | I think we need two definitions: |_|_) | WSR - Softwaredevelopment | 1) The problem the *users* want us to solve | | | und Projektunterstützung | 2) The

Re: [Soekris] I see development of the net6801 has been dropped.

2015-10-22 Thread Peter J. Holzer
he same 0.5A and be about 3W. Have you tried this? It doesn't seem plausible. I would expect the power consumption to remain roughly constant independent of input voltage (so at 6V it would draw about 1A). A constant current would mean that the regulator just burns any excess voltage. hp --

Re: [Soekris] slow SSD write performance on the 6501

2014-11-14 Thread Peter J. Holzer
is great, we see 150MB/s, but write performance is limited to 20MB/s regardless of which SSD or interface type that we use. I have 60 GB Intel mSATA SSD in a 6501, and get about 170 MB/s read and 90 MB/s write performance with the default kernel of Debian stable (3.2). hp -- _ | Peter J

Re: [Soekris] net6501-50 normal working temperature

2013-12-05 Thread Peter J. Holzer
input.value , $input / 1000; say crit.value , $crit / 1000; } -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | I think we need two definitions: |_|_) | WSR - Softwaredevelopment | 1) The problem the *users* want us to solve

Re: [Soekris] net6501-50 normal working temperature

2013-12-02 Thread Peter J. Holzer
move them into a 19 rack I may have to install some fans. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | I think we need two definitions: |_|_) | WSR - Softwaredevelopment | 1) The problem the *users* want us to solve | | | und Projektunterstützung | 2) The problem our solution addresses

Re: [Soekris] net6501-50 normal working temperature

2013-12-02 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2013-12-02 14:27:40 +0100, Dr. Peter Voigt wrote: Am Mon, 2 Dec 2013 10:13:09 +0100 schrieb Peter J. Holzer hjp+soek...@wsr.ac.at: I got some 6501-70's in the 19 case and they run even hotter. For now I made a little cardboard construction to keep them vertical: http://www.hjp.at/hw

Re: [Soekris] net6501 won't cold boot (will reboot without problems)

2013-09-13 Thread Peter J. Holzer
will autoboot on all the other boxes I have. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | I think we need two definitions: |_|_) | WSR - Softwaredevelopment | 1) The problem the *users* want us to solve | | | und Projektunterstützung | 2) The problem our solution addresses. __/ | h

Re: [Soekris] net6501 : CPU architecture ?

2013-05-14 Thread Peter J. Holzer
? Or are operating systems supposed to ignore it and use information from the BIOS (DMI?) instead? Otherwise I don't really see how the BIOS could prevent exposing that the CPU is a 64 bit chip. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer| Auf jedem Computer sollte der Satz Ludwigs II |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR

Re: [Soekris] Clock losing time on Net5501

2013-02-13 Thread Peter J. Holzer
). hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer| Auf jedem Computer sollte der Satz Ludwigs II |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | eingeprägt stehen: Ein ewig Rätsel will ich | | | h...@wsr.ac.at | bleiben, mir und andern. __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ |-- Wolfram Heinrich in desd signature.asc

Re: [Soekris] *BSD vs Linux

2011-04-15 Thread Peter J. Holzer
): What do you really do with your soekris boxes what the Linux license(s) would prevent you from doing? I'm really just curious, not trying to escalate the flame war. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer| Auf jedem Computer sollte der Satz Ludwigs II |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | eingeprägt

Re: [Soekris] Debian Installation Problem

2010-06-17 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2010-06-16 18:19:16 +0200, Alexander wrote: Your BootDrive setting looks wrong. Yes. I think CF would be 0x81, HDD would be 0x80 No. 0x80 is the first disk, 0x81 the second, etc. Since his CF card is configured as primary master, that should be 0x80. hp -- _ | Peter J

Re: [Soekris] PXE booting a net4801 without access to the console prompt ?

2010-06-07 Thread Peter J. Holzer
the comBIOS settings from a running system would be nice. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer| Auf jedem Computer sollte der Satz Ludwigs II |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | eingeprägt stehen: Ein ewig Rätsel will ich | | | h...@wsr.ac.at | bleiben, mir und andern. __/ | http://www.hjp.at

Re: [Soekris] Debian5/GRUB installation problems

2010-03-10 Thread Peter J. Holzer
linux system?, but I don't think I upgraded it. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer| Auf jedem Computer sollte der Satz Ludwigs II |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | eingeprägt stehen: Ein ewig Rätsel will ich | | | h...@wsr.ac.at | bleiben, mir und andern. __/ | http://www.hjp.at

Re: [Soekris] Installaling Linux on net5501 with PXE environment

2010-02-01 Thread Peter J. Holzer
menu system in minicom makes it really hard to start the upload before the BIOS gives up. But with a little practice it's possible ;-). hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer| Auf jedem Computer sollte der Satz Ludwigs II |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | eingeprägt stehen: Ein ewig Rätsel will ich

Re: [Soekris] Writing a BIOS config from cmd line

2009-10-21 Thread Peter J. Holzer
their serial ports together so that each can be used to reconfigure the other. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer| Auf jedem Computer sollte der Satz Ludwigs II |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | eingeprägt stehen: Ein ewig Rätsel will ich | | | h...@wsr.ac.at | bleiben, mir und andern

[Soekris] Booting with grub without serial console

2009-02-28 Thread Peter J. Holzer
to print the boot menu. I suspect that at that point HW flow control is on and grub (or the BIOS) waits for a CTS signal. Does anyone know a way around this problem (I already checked the grub documentation but didn't find anything). hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer| Am Anfang war der

Re: [Soekris] Booting with grub without serial console

2009-02-28 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2009-02-28 11:51:11 +0100, Jan Ceuleers wrote: Peter J. Holzer wrote: If the serial port is not connected to a PC with a terminal emulator it hangs at boot time, I think just before grub tries to print the boot menu. I suspect that at that point HW flow control is on and grub

Re: [Soekris] Net5501 NIC problem with Debian Lenny

2009-02-20 Thread Peter J. Holzer
of the arp_* entries in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*) to change this but you should probably step back and think again about what you want to achieve. If not, please describe your network setup. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer| Am Anfang war der Bug und der |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR

Re: [Soekris] net4801 Bios update

2008-08-25 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2008-08-24 15:03:13 +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote: In a previous thread it was suggested that this might be a problem with ComBIOS version 1.29 and that upgrading to 1.30 (or newer) might help.[1] So I grabbed b4801_133.bin from http://www.soekris.com/downloads.htm, booted the net4801

Re: [Soekris] PXE Tiny screen

2008-08-25 Thread Peter J. Holzer
that this is happening here. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer| Am Anfang war der Bug und der |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | Verantwortliche sprach: | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Es werde ein Testcase. __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ |-- Clemens Zauner in dcii pgphRg0WtLZZC.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [Soekris] PXE Tiny screen

2008-08-25 Thread Peter J. Holzer
to boot something else (as that memtestux.cfg suggests). hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer| Am Anfang war der Bug und der |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | Verantwortliche sprach: | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Es werde ein Testcase. __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ |-- Clemens Zauner in dcii

[Soekris] net4801 Bios update

2008-08-24 Thread Peter J. Holzer
, but the error messages were a bit different (something like unsolicited nak received (translated from German)). hp [1] The OP in this thread got it to work with LILO instead of grub - that's what I'll try next, but I think upgrading the BIOS should work, too. -- _ | Peter J