Re: [Soekris] DSL modem recommendations?

2010-03-11 Thread Ted Phelps
Jan Ceuleers writes: > The OEM is Traverse (www.traverse.com.au), and they call these cards > Pulsar and Viking, respectively. FWIW, I have a Viking in my net4801, and I find that it runs too hot. I'm currently running with the top of the case removed and it's fine, even in the heat of the Brisban

Re: [Soekris] Debian install on 4801, eth0 won't work.

2010-02-20 Thread Ted Phelps
Hi William, William Estrada writes: > The port is OK, it works with the currect OS ( FC5 ). Just checking. :-) > I'm new to Debian, how do I install this driver?? I'm not a Debian user myself, but you can check to see if the module is available by looking for natsemi.ko in: /lib/modules/

Re: [Soekris] Debian install on 4801, eth0 won't work.

2010-02-20 Thread Ted Phelps
Hi William, William Estrada writes: > I have just built a Debian Lenny image for my 4801, which is currently > running FC5. It boots but will not bring up eth0, I am using the > serial console. > > I have tested the build with my laptop and eth0 works just fine. > > Did i miss a module for the 48

Re: [Soekris] Replace an ADSL modem-router

2009-08-08 Thread Ted Phelps
Hi Alexandre, Alexandre Westfahl writes: > I like OpenBSD and I want to replace my ISP modem-router by a soekris. > Concerning LAN part, no problem. But, for ADSL/ADSL2+ part, it's more > difficult. Indeed. > I was looking for a mini-pci card but it seems it doesn't exist! I didn't manage to f

Re: [Soekris] Net5501 internal clock running way too fast

2007-07-24 Thread Ted Phelps
.Mike. writes: > I noticed clock insubordination after about two, well maybe half a minute > with my first 4801, > > On the linux kernel I had to use throw a kernel flag clock=pit to calm down > the time on all 4801's > > ntpd still corrects drifts of about 1-2 seconds every hour or two, I > pe

Re: [Soekris] "Lockup" update

2007-04-04 Thread Ted Phelps
Hi Richard, Richard Homonnai writes: > The default watchdog behaviour (which you get if you say N here) > is to stop the timer if the process managing it closes the file > /dev/watchdog. It's always remotely possible that this process > might get killed. If you say Y here, the wat

Re: [Soekris] "Lockup" update

2007-04-02 Thread Ted Phelps
Richard Homonnai writes: > Yes, but only if you set in the kernel. How do you do that? I only see two kernel parameters, neither of which seems to apply: nowayout:Disable watchdog shutdown on close margin:Watchdog margin in seconds Maybe it has changed in recent kernels? Cheers, -Ted _

Re: [Soekris] "Lockup" update

2007-04-01 Thread Ted Phelps
Bill Maas writes: > There still is the other issue, that of the watchdog reset during > boot. It happens on an OpenBSD box, maybe on Linux boxes too, if the > timeout value is set too low. The appropriate lines from /etc/rc (4.0 > unpatched) are: Just FYI, the Linux watchdog timer driver (for th