[9fans] soekris boards

[9fans] soekris boards

[Bruce Ellis]

anyone had any experience with these things?

http://www.soekris.com/

brucee

Re: [9fans] soekris boards

[Brantley Coile]

I've written a system that ran on the 4501 and still
have a few.  I've still got some and some 4801s.  I'm
going to try to put Plan 9 on them when I get a chance.
Seems like it would make a great secstore.  Maybe even
an auth server.

 Brantley

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 20:25, Bruce Ellis wrote:
> anyone had any experience with these things?
> 
> http://www.soekris.com/
> 
> brucee

Re: [9fans] soekris boards

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Brantley Coile wrote:

> I've written a system that ran on the 4501 and still
> have a few.  I've still got some and some 4801s.  I'm
> going to try to put Plan 9 on them when I get a chance.
> Seems like it would make a great secstore.  Maybe even
> an auth server.

plan 9 does run fine on a geode, those look about the same as my geode 
cluster boards.

ron

Re: [9fans] soekris boards

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Bruce Ellis wrote:

> anyone had any experience with these things?

no, but ... bastards! soldered on BIOS part :-)

no good to me :-)

ron

Re: [9fans] soekris boards

[Brantley Coile]

That's not a problem.  The firmware includes code to reburn the bios. 
It's not just like a PC bios--there are some debugging
stuff in there.  It also PXE boots.

On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 00:31, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Bruce Ellis wrote:
> 
> > anyone had any experience with these things?
> 
> no, but ... bastards! soldered on BIOS part :-)
> 
> no good to me :-)
> 
> ron

Re: [9fans] soekris boards

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Brantley Coile wrote:

> That's not a problem.  The firmware includes code to reburn the bios. 

yeah, people are doing that now. You get a chunk of the flash part that is 
not eraseable. The problem is that chunk does a lot of "special" setup 
that in many cases is not what you want ... 

ron

Re: [9fans] soekris boards

[Jack Johnson]

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 10:25:04 +1000, Bruce Ellis <brucee@chunder.com> wrote:
> anyone had any experience with these things?

It would be fun to throw a little PCI video card on there if possible,
but I like the little case.

It does seem perfect for a secstore, or maybe a VPN router (or IPv6 bridge).

-Jack

[9fans] Re: soekris boards

[Dave Eckhardt]

> anyone had any experience with these things?
>
> http://www.soekris.com/

I haven't personally but I know a bunch of people
who use them and are happy with them.

Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] soekris boards

[C H Forsyth]

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i've used the 4501.
unlike some `embedded' PC implementations i've used, the BIOS works on serial port,
which was better for me.  the BIOS also seemed to work, which made a change.

it doesn't take much to get plan 9 or inferno running on them.
for plan 9, it looks as though i deleted cga.$O from a copy of mkfile--
possibly cga should be configured explicitly in /sys/src/9/pc config files not mkfile--
removed all the graphics devices from pcsoe (compared to pccpu),
added
	void screeninit(void){}
to the port section, and changed the device configuration.
then as usual something intervened and i didn't do as much with it as i intended.

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From: Bruce Ellis <brucee@chunder.com>
To: "9fans@cse.psu.edu" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] soekris boards
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 10:25:04 +1000
Message-ID: <414B8060.2010601@chunder.com>

anyone had any experience with these things?

http://www.soekris.com/

brucee

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