Re: [Soekris] Soekris second serial port in Debian Linux Wheezy on net6501

2014-12-30 Thread Philippe Vanhaesendonck
Hi! You need to get the 'PCH UART' driver out of the way as it claims the port and does not work on the Soekris board... Unfortunately it is not compiled as module, so you cannot blacklist it and you will have to re-compile your own kernel... From the stock Debian kernel the only thing you have

Re: [Soekris] net6501 low cpu performance

2012-11-15 Thread Philippe Vanhaesendonck
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:56:02 +0100, Lon Willett x_soek...@lonw.net wrote: On 2012-11-15 00:18, Soren Kristensen wrote: There is a fixed comBIOS vers 1.41b up on the soekris website. Seems to work with linux kernel 3.6.6, at least according to a quick micro-benchmark (close to 3x

Re: [Soekris] Using a net6501 as a home server

2012-10-15 Thread Philippe Vanhaesendonck
On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:02:43 +0300, Lars Noodén lars.noo...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/15/12 9:44 PM, Wesley PA4WDH wrote: ... The host will be Gentoo, i haven't decided about the guest yet. It seems a bit overkill to use gentoo there too. The workload would be email with an MTA, Secure IMAP,

Re: [Soekris] net6501, Linux, SSD/kernel/hardware failure?

2012-05-30 Thread Philippe Vanhaesendonck
On Wed, 30 May 2012 11:49:29 +0100 (BST), Chris Wilson chris-soek...@aptivate.org wrote: Thanks for that data point. What exact kernel are you running? Chris, I am using the the (almost) stock Debian Wheezy kernel which is Linux 3.2 I say 'almost', because I have to recompile to get pch_uart

Re: [Soekris] net6501, Linux, SSD/kernel/hardware failure?

2012-05-29 Thread Philippe Vanhaesendonck
This probably does not help too much, but FYI I am running Debian Wheezy on my net6501 with an OCZ Vertex-3 SSD, and no problem encountered so far... -- Philippe On 29/05/12 18:41, Chris Wilson wrote: Hi all, I'm testing my first net6501 with an OCZ Petrol SSD. Everything seemed OK, got

Re: [Soekris] Can't install anything on my Net6501-30

2012-03-05 Thread Philippe Vanhaesendonck
As already said, I am pretty sure as well that you get garbage because there is a serial speed mismatch. Check the Syslinux configuration file and either - change it in Syslinux (you will need to change it once for Syslinux itself -- SERIAL option -- and once for the Linux kernel -- APPEND

Re: [Soekris] Net6501, 2nd serial and Linux 3.1

2012-02-13 Thread Philippe Vanhaesendonck
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:22:51 -0800, Peter Neubauer pneuba...@bluerwhite.org wrote: Somewhat related, is the internal port at RS-232 voltage levels, or is it a TTL/LVTTL level port? It is the real thing ;) I use it communicate with my UPS. -- Philippe

Re: [Soekris] Net6501, 2nd serial and Linux 3.1

2012-02-12 Thread Philippe Vanhaesendonck
On 12/02/12 22:38, Peter Neubauer wrote: On my Linux 3.2.1 system, the kernel recognizes the additional serial devices using the pch_uart driver. It looks like 3.1 has the same driver. I recommend confirming that you have the pch_uart module (if not, you may have to build it from kernel