Re: [Soekris] GRUB hangs when booting Debian (Was: Re: Netbooting Debian: Squeeze installer will not detect any storage media)

2012-09-18 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-09-18 15:45:44 +0200 (+0200), Robin Kipp wrote: [...] > GRUB is loading and a welcome message, and after that it just > stops... [...] You probably need to configure both GRUB and the Linux kernel to use the serial port for their console. In my /boot/grub/grub.cfg I use: serial --spee

Re: [Soekris] Smarter OS install from BIOS?

2012-08-23 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-08-23 22:39:16 +0200 (+0200), Thomas Elsgaard wrote: [...] > It would be so cool if i just to add an url to the BIOS during boot, > pointing out the OS image, and install.. It already supports getting an address from your DHCP server and then retrieving the OS image via TFTP protocol... ar

Re: [Soekris] accessing usb card from net5501

2012-06-23 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-06-23 10:05:09 +0500 (+0500), Jamshaid Anwar wrote: [...] > sdc: sdc1 [...] > pbx ~ # genkd > A filesystem on /dev/sda1 is mounted. Aborting. [...] You probably wanted 'genkd /dev/sdc1' (and a quick Web search seems to confirm this syntax). http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/AstLinux+K

Re: [Soekris] freebsd jails vs linux vservers on net5501

2012-05-08 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-05-09 01:08:20 +0200 (+0200), JF Straeten wrote: [...] > One more choice : Debian + LXC (Linux Containers). [...] Semi-recent discussions on the oss-sec list suggest LXC doesn't yet provide good separation from a security perspective... for example, this rather longish thread: http://secl

Re: [Soekris] Bridging OpenBSD

2012-04-28 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-04-28 13:57:08 +0100 (+0100), Paul Lavender wrote: > Debian Wheezy? I thought the Debian kernels did not have bridging. > But perhaps that has changed recently, or perhaps you roll your > own kernel. fungi@azathoth:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 6.0.2 fungi@azathoth:~$ uname -a Lin

Re: [Soekris] Linux on Net6501

2011-11-03 Thread The Fungi
On 2011-11-03 10:16:35 -0700 (-0700), Karl Auerbach wrote: [...] > So something that doesn't like the Net6501 was introduced in the > 2.6.39.4 ==> 3.0 transition. [...] I know bisection for boot issues can be slow and painful, but if you have access to the 3.0 beta git commits and time to bisect t

Re: [Soekris] comBIOS ver. 1.33 sees wrong disk size

2011-07-05 Thread The Fungi
On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 10:49:35AM -0400, der Mouse wrote: [...] > > SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 16.4 GB ATA SanDisk SDCFX3-1 > > SCSI1 (0,1,0) (sdb) - 240.1 GB ATA OWC Mercury Extr > > I note 16.4 versus 16007; this reinforces my theory - 16007*1000*1024 > is 16391.168, which would re

Re: [Soekris] *BSD vs Linux

2011-04-13 Thread The Fungi
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:08:44PM -0400, Ryan Whelan wrote: [...] > I'm really curious why those that chose BSDs chose them? [...] Chances are there will be as many different answers as there are users, but I can at least give you mine... the Soekris boards are well adapted for light-duty use as

Re: [Soekris] Debian Squeeze on Soekris - The EASY Way

2011-02-28 Thread The Fungi
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 01:05:23PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > With or without soft updates? The incidence of fscks requiring > intervention has decreased a lot since the various fs journaling > options were introduced. Biggest culprit now is hardware failure. At the time we finally switched to

Re: [Soekris] Debian Squeeze on Soekris - The EASY Way

2011-02-28 Thread The Fungi
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:52:08AM -0500, der Mouse wrote: > If an ungraceful power-out causes that, you need a better > filesystem, fsck, or both. I've had plenty of power-outs on my > NetBSD machines using FFS and I don't think I've ever seen a case > where it needed manual attention unless somet

Re: [Soekris] Debian Squeeze on Soekris - The EASY Way

2011-02-28 Thread The Fungi
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 09:24:39AM -0700, David Burgess wrote: > True only if wear levelling is in place. To my knowledge, most > consumer-marketed CF don't use this, so death will come much > sooner if you try that. And wear on the flash isn't the only good reason for read-only filesystems on a n

Re: [Soekris] Adding Page to Wiki?

2011-02-28 Thread The Fungi
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 04:14:32AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I cheated. I typed in the URL I wanted and the Wiki said there was > no page and asked if I wanted to edit it. That's the way you usually do it on a MediaWiki (unless you want to create a link to the new missing page from another page

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

2010-02-23 Thread The Fungi
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 08:33:04AM +0100, Jan Ceuleers wrote: [...] > r...@skr03:~# df . > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda5 6973240870264 5748748 14% / > > That's an Ubuntu Karmic server install (with manpages, Squid, > Apache, what

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

2010-02-22 Thread The Fungi
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:56:16PM -0800, William Estrada wrote: > I wanted to install a small system image, so that is way I went the > Debootstrap route. The standard installs, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. all seam > to install the world for you, like M$ does. My build was relatively > small ( 1/2 gig )

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

2009-10-20 Thread The Fungi
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:45:57PM -0500, chad brabec wrote: [...] > the lanuage is based off of tcl and you can get it with tk also. [...] Though logic and syntax in TCL are a pain, so I personally recommend a pure Python module which reimplments the interaction pieces allowing you to do the rest

Re: [Soekris] Serial term problems Net5501...

2009-10-13 Thread The Fungi
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 05:00:45PM -0400, Simon Bilodeau wrote: > Reseted the device !#^^!#%$%! If you're seeing garbage on the serial console during a reset, sounds like your device may be set for a different baud rate than your terminal. -- { IRL(Jeremy_Stanley); PGP(9E8DFF2E4F5995F8FEADDC5

Re: [Soekris] Net5501 Issue

2009-10-13 Thread The Fungi
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 07:29:10PM +0100, cesedo cesedo wrote: > i recently puchased a net5501 appliance. I have connected this > appliance to my laptop using a serial->USB converter. I have > downloaded a terminal emulator program (Tera Term) and configured > it as follows: Port=COM3, Baud Rate=19

Re: [Soekris] Slow network connections with Voyage Linux and Soekris Net 5501

2008-10-17 Thread The Fungi
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 06:21:26PM +0200, Alexandre Dulaunoy wrote: > For me, the 75% is more around auto-negotiation not working > as expected (full/half duplex). [...] The two are far from mutually exclusive. I often see cable problems result in autonegotiation mismatches. Of course the differen

Re: [Soekris] Slow network connections with Voyage Linux and Soekris Net 5501

2008-10-17 Thread The Fungi
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 06:07:58PM +0200, Robin Kipp wrote: > I got another serious issue with Voyage Linux on my Net5501 > unfortunately: the network connection is really slow, only a few bytes > per second. A simple apt-get update took about 10 minutes to complete > which is really way to long...

Re: [Soekris] Question about Debian Linux on Soekris boards

2008-09-26 Thread The Fungi
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 01:26:54PM +0200, Robin Kipp wrote: [...] > Is there maybe a life CD that I could use to boot and that has the > required components? Assuming you're talking about booting a non-Linux PC temporarily from a live CD and configuring it as the PXE/DHCP/TFTP server to jump your

Re: [Soekris] problem using multiple wireless cards

2008-07-26 Thread The Fungi
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 01:09:48PM +0200, emilio ancillotti wrote: [...] > Do you think that this is a madwifi problem? I suppose it's worth investigating. Do you know whether the ath5k driver supports the chips on the boards you have? http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/MadWifi_Switches_Focus_to_ath5k

Re: [Soekris] problem using multiple wireless cards

2008-07-25 Thread The Fungi
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 06:12:55PM +, The Fungi wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 06:54:19PM +0200, Emilio Ancillotti wrote: > > This is a snapshot of the CPU utilization obtained with the top command: > > > > Cpu(s): 4.2%us, 27.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 15.2%hi,

Re: [Soekris] problem using multiple wireless cards

2008-07-25 Thread The Fungi
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 06:54:19PM +0200, Emilio Ancillotti wrote: > This is a snapshot of the CPU utilization obtained with the top command: > > Cpu(s): 4.2%us, 27.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 15.2%hi, 52.8%si, > 0.0%st > > I don't use any sort of security during my tests Okay... I thoug

Re: [Soekris] problem using multiple wireless cards

2008-07-25 Thread The Fungi
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 03:50:17PM +0200, Emilio Ancillotti wrote: [...] > The problem is the following. When each wireless card works alone > I have not problem, and I obtain a throughput of about 24-25Mbps. > However, when both cards work simultaneously, the per flow > throughput of each cards is

Re: [Soekris] Compatibility Issue w/ Soekris 5501 and Cisco 2640 Switch

2008-06-11 Thread The Fungi
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 02:44:34PM -0700, Chris Babcock wrote: > I have also seen similar behavior with devices that do auto MDI<->MDIX > setting with some devices. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if there is a > way to control the MDI/MDIX function in software. Anybody, here know if > there is a

Re: [Soekris] net4801 + openbsd + serial device

2008-04-27 Thread The Fungi
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 06:19:21PM +0200, jacco wrote: [...] > Here's my dmesg output, booting OpenBSD on the soekris: [...] > usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0 > uhub0 at usb0: Compaq OHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 [...] Was that before or after attaching the USB dongle? If before, connect it

Re: [Soekris] Ethernet outages/autodetect weirdness on Net4801

2008-04-19 Thread The Fungi
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 02:56:19PM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > I'm sorry, but autonegotiation is a myth. In the real world it is > more dangerous than it does good. I ran a managed server hosting > company for 9 years, and every item in there was all hardcoded > with speed and duplex. [...]

Re: [Soekris] net5501 + video card?

2008-02-27 Thread The Fungi
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 02:25:01PM +1100, Malcolm Herbert wrote: > Hadn't thought that would be a big issue, but then I didn't tell > you that I am only looking for basic text mode or at most 800x600 > vga modes as there really isn't a lot of memory on the host and > I'd be unlikely to want to run

Re: [Soekris] net5501 boot trouble

2007-10-22 Thread The Fungi
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 08:11:57PM +0200, Bill Maas wrote: > I was wrong: more systematic testing revealed that the same thing > occurred with the net4801 as well. So it looks like either > cu 1.07-19ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 6.10 is broken, or my only laptop with a > serial port is slowly falling apart (c

Re: [Soekris] What is the meaning of BIOS parameter ConMute?

2007-10-18 Thread The Fungi
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:47:24PM -0400, der Mouse wrote: > In my (admittedly limited) experience, this happens IFF spanning tree > is enabled (both globally and on the affected port). Turning off > spanning tree usually makes it all just magically start working. Agreed. And these days a majorit

Re: [Soekris] What is the meaning of BIOS parameter ConMute?

2007-10-18 Thread The Fungi
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 05:13:31PM +0200, Bent wrote: [...] > It started being reliable when I changed the network configuration > from DHCP to static IP and it stayed stable when I went back to > GRUB. The root cause may have been that the NIC did not always > come up reliably using DHCP. [...] I

[Soekris] [OT] Wiki (was: OS FAQ)

2007-09-28 Thread The Fungi
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:32:39AM -0400, Bob Keyes wrote: [...] > I'd prefer a wiki that works as much like wikipedia as possible, > as that is what I am familiar with. [...] Then you will probably be quite happy using MediaWiki. The first sentence on http://www.mediawiki.org/ reads: "MediaWi

Re: [Soekris] Problem with accessing console in net4826

2007-09-08 Thread The Fungi
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 01:55:49PM -0400, Bob Keyes wrote: > Even doing everything correctly, I have had many problems with > minicom. I just keep on trying until I am able to connect. Does > anyone know of a better serial communications problem? Program? I've had pleasant experiences over the yea

Re: [Soekris] Connecting to a net4521 from Mac OS X

2007-09-05 Thread The Fungi
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 05:00:32PM -0400, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: [...] > ssh once you have an OS loaded and booted and connecting over the > ethernet port? Or some other magical setup? There are in fact such magical setups (like the "ssh console" in Debian-Installer), but these are rare and n

Re: [Soekris] Connecting to a net4521 from Mac OS X

2007-09-04 Thread The Fungi
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 03:22:45PM -0400, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: [...] > I go as far as remapping some of my bind keys, but the other day I > had some trouble scrolling up and down a screen buffer ;-) I believe Terminal.app on OS X grabs the PgUp/PgDn keys, or at least my experience was that

Re: [Soekris] What Ethernet driver for the 5501

2007-08-15 Thread The Fungi
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 11:30:08AM +0200, Bent wrote: [...] > It appears that the console cannot be used after 'init' has completed. > I guess that that's normal? [...] Chances are you missed putting/uncommenting a line like this in your inittab: T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 Tha

Re: [Soekris] Comm Port Help!

2007-07-19 Thread The Fungi
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 11:07:42AM -0500, RB wrote: > On 7/19/07, william estrada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2) If I remember correctly, Grub does not support USB keyboards? > Incorrect - I've used USB almost exclusively for quite some time. [...] Grub supports BIOS keyboards. When your B

Re: [Soekris] net5501 pictures

2007-06-22 Thread The Fungi
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 06:14:05PM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > So this case *will* fit a full size PCI card, then. WooHoo! Perhaps you meant "full height"? I'm not precisely sure what a "full size" PCI card is, but a full length PCI card most definitely won't fit in there from what I can see...

Re: [Soekris] using soekris to nat and firewall at LAN speeds

2007-04-23 Thread The Fungi
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 02:03:51PM -0400, Chris Bullock wrote: > can the soekris handle being an internal firewall at 100mb/s? [...] Assuming you're talking about the net4801, the highest benchmarks I've seen have been in the 40Mbps range for just routing packets between interfaces. Inspection wou