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

2015-10-06 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, On the low end, I would say a Banana Pi R1 router is comparable. I have one and it has problems, but is usable. I have only used it on slow networks(like 4 mbps down and 1 up. Cnewer chipsets with eight 64 bit cpus should be able to keep up with much faster traffic at low power. Ralph

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

2015-10-06 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, I think this was a smart move. When I saw the original announcement for the 6801, I thought it was a bad idea. That kind of CPU with the support chips it needs is not cost effective. I hope they switch to a 64 bit arm design. Good day, Ralph _

Re: [Soekris] MS-DOS 6.22 on a net4801

2013-08-22 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, That was interesting about pxeboot and video cards. I don't think I ever tried a pxeboot install to a machine without video. I don't know if your real goal is to do the pxeboot install or to have DOS running. If it is to have DOS running, may I suggest a different route. I have setup

Re: [Soekris] new to list

2011-10-19 Thread Ralph Green
On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 11:36 -0700, Carl E. Ma wrote: > I am looking for device support followings: > > 1. ssh server > 2. dns client > 3. login > 4. web server with java support > > The entry level - 4501 might be able to meet above requirement. My question > is the size of storage. Is it possi

Re: [Soekris] *BSD vs Linux

2011-04-14 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, Technically, that is true. But, only after repeatedly trying to contact the company to remind them of their obligation to publish source code and getting no action. I am not aware of any case where a lawsuit was the first step and doubt it has ever happened. They often get that complian

Re: [Soekris] *BSD vs Linux

2011-04-14 Thread Ralph Green
On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 16:04 +0200, Marc Balmer wrote: > So for a start, compare the GPL and the BSD/ISC/MIT licenses, and you > will spot differences. Howdy, I have read these license and there are big differences. I do try BSD and usually have a BSD machine of some sort running. I have run Fre

Re: [Soekris] Current best practice for OpenBSD installs?

2010-05-26 Thread Ralph Green
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 11:47 +1000, Rod Whitworth wrote: > >It's a 4GB SanDisk Extreme III > > > >wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: > >wd0: 4-sector PIO, LBA, 3908MB, 8005536 sectors > >wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 > > > > And here is an old one: > wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive

Re: [Soekris] Current best practice for OpenBSD installs?

2010-05-25 Thread Ralph Green
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 21:30 +0200, Joakim Aronius wrote: > * Johan Huldtgren (johan+soek...@huldtgren.com) wrote: > > > With large flash cards being so easily affordable, what's the current > > > best practice for OpenBSD installs? > > ... > Agreed, from my point of view there is absolutely no need

Re: [Soekris] Bringing up net5501 in Openwrt, etc.

2010-04-05 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, I hope it is not improper, but I would like to broaden this request a bit. I would like to run OpenWRT on the Soekris 4521. I am looking for the same kind of information as Philip seeks about the 5501. The 4521 has lots more ram than the WRT%$G, so it seems like it should be possible.

Re: [Soekris] Soekris 5501 with SSD disks

2010-02-02 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, If you are careful to not do more than one write to each sector per day, you should make it. An MLC cell should take 1 writes. 20 years is 7305 days, so there is no room for 2 writes per day. If you write to a normal filesystem, the directory sectors are not going to survive. Even

Re: [Soekris] Soekris 5501 with SSD disks

2010-02-02 Thread Ralph Green
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 07:41 -0500, Bob Camp wrote: > Next up is price. I'm seeing a 3 to 5X premium for the SLC's. That's a big > jump, This is why MLC is so widespread. There is a big difference in cost to manufacture. The actual cost is 2 to 4 times more for SLC. > The question becomes -

Re: [Soekris] pfSense on net5501

2009-10-22 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, I installed it to a CF card. I got it almost running on a Soekris 4521. It ran, but crashed because the 4521 does not have enough memory. I currently run pfSense from a CF card on a non-Soekris box with 124 meg of ram. It is a geode design that take 4 meg for video ram, even though there

[Soekris] identifying 4521 memory

2009-08-28 Thread Ralph Green
hardware to teach with and that is where I thought the 4521 would work well. Good day, Ralph Green, Jr. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech

Re: [Soekris] Help in identifying connector

2009-08-05 Thread Ralph Green
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 11:57 +0200, Aragon Gouveia wrote: > Ralph Green wrote: > > Howdy, > > I have a 802.11a card I want to put into my Soekris 4521. It came out > > of a Proxim access point. My problem is that I don't know what kind of > > cable I need. The

[Soekris] Help in identifying connector

2009-08-05 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, I have a 802.11a card I want to put into my Soekris 4521. It came out of a Proxim access point. My problem is that I don't know what kind of cable I need. The Proxim had two antennae and each had a cable that plugged into the cardbus nic. The cables are way to short to reach to the bac

Re: [Soekris] Looking for an embedded linux with 'webmin' that supports Soekris?

2009-07-06 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 02:17 -0700, Paul Bartell wrote: > perhaps monowall is an option: http://m0n0.ch/wall/ > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:56 AM, touchring wrote: > > > > I have been searching for an embedded linux platform, similar to Voyage > > Linux, that comes with a webmin to configur

Re: [Soekris] building first image

2009-06-11 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, I am presently trying to build an image for a Soekris 4521 and this seems like an interesting approach you have here. I have the VirtualBox VM Manager in use and KVM installed on a test machine, but not tested yet. Has anyone used a similar approach with either of these hypervisors? If

Re: [Soekris] Soekris net4526 and miniPCI CF

2009-05-19 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, It looks like the answer is replacing it with another card. This card uses the Via VT6421A chip for IDE and Sata support. The CF card is just like parallel IDE. I just see complaints about how this chip is not well supported in Linux. I found an old reference to a patch file, but follo

Re: [Soekris] One-LAN + PCI slot for compact PBX?

2009-04-30 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, I did not see the FXO hardware at astlinux.org. What kind of card are you looking at for 80 euros? That would not be a Digium brand card. I find a brand named OpenVOX for about that, but I don't know anyone who uses them and can tell me if they work OK. Good day, Ralph On Thu, 2009-04-

[Soekris] What cable to look for

2009-03-04 Thread Ralph Green
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 should work pretty well. It is a "S