Changes between Version 9 and Version 10 of Internal/Soekris


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Timestamp:
Sep 20, 2006, 8:55:36 PM (18 years ago)
Author:
Joseph F. Miklojcik III
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    99On the other hand, all five ethernet (NatSemi) devices are fully supported pretty much everywhere.
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     11You will want a paperclip.  You're going to be hitting that reset switch a lot.
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    1113== connect a console ==
    1214
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    1416
    1517Run minicom in a terminal window that can handle vt102 (any of them can).  Minicom should be set for 9600 baud, 8 databits, no parity, 1 stop bit, no flow control.  Turn hardware flow control off in minicom.  The UNIX device for talking to the console is almost certainly /dev/ttyS0.
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     19Minicom and the Soekris console driver seem a little fragile.  If you do wind up dumping junk to the serial port (as will be the case if you run pppd carelessly), you may gum it up so badly that you need to reboot.
    1620
    1721== configure the Soekris net4801 BIOS ==
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    7983Change /etc/rc2.d/S99voyage so that the commands that keep remounting / ro are disabled.
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     85Note that things like /root are normally linked to /rw/root, which is a tmpfs.  It's all very cute, but you probably want to disable it.
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    8187Run
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    9399http://tldp.org/HOWTO/ppp-ssh
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