From bugmaster at FreeBSD.org Mon Sep 7 11:06:57 2009 From: bugmaster at FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugmaster) Date: Mon Sep 7 11:07:36 2009 Subject: Current problem reports assigned to freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <200909071106.n87B6uB3010174@freefall.freebsd.org> Note: to view an individual PR, use: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=(number). The following is a listing of current problems submitted by FreeBSD users. These represent problem reports covering all versions including experimental development code and obsolete releases. S Tracker Resp. Description -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- o misc/136889 embedded [nanobsd] [path] nanobsd error reporting and other ref o misc/135588 embedded [nanobsd] simple patch for adding amd64 support o misc/52256 embedded [picobsd] picobsd build script does not read in user/s o kern/42728 embedded [picobsd] many problems in src/usr.sbin/ppp/* after c 4 problems total. From mailing at ekomedya.com Thu Sep 10 15:18:50 2009 From: mailing at ekomedya.com (=?utf-8?Q?Eko_Bilgisayar_ve_=C4=B0leti=C5=9Fim_Hizmetleri_Ltd=2E_=C5=9Eti?=) Date: Thu Sep 10 15:20:15 2009 Subject: Turkey Calling You To Visit - The Trade SHOW- In Las Vegas Message-ID: [http://www.turkeycalling.us] [http://www.turkeycalling.us] [http://www.turkeycalling.us] [http://www.turkeycalling.us/turkey-fam/turkeyfam.htm] Global Access Travel invites you to the Tradeshow in Las Vegas on September 13-15, 2009. Please visit us to get more information about our organization and services at our booth. If you fill the registration form or leave the business card when you visit us at our booth, you might be lucky visitor who is going to win our daily draw prize; Free inspection trip to Turkey. Yasal Uyar?; Bu e-posta, sadece adreste belirtilen kisi veya kurulusun kullanimini hedeflemekte olup,mesajda yer alan bilgiler kisiye ozel ve gizli olabilir, yasalar ya da anlasmalar geregi ?c?nc? kisiler ile paylasilmasi m?mk?n olmayabilir.Mesaji alan kisi, mesajin g?nderilmek istendigi kisi veya kurulus degilse,bu mesaji yaymak,dagitmak veya kopyalamak yasaktir Mesaj tarafiniza yanlislikla ulasmissa l?tfen mesaji geri g?nderiniz ve sisteminizden siliniz. Global Access Travel bu mesajin icerigi ile ilgili olarak hicbir hukuksal sorumlulugu kabul etmez Disclaimer This e-mail communication is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and that may not be made public by law or agreement. If the recipient of this message is not the intended recipient or entity, you are hereby notified that any further dissemination, distribution or copying of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete it from your system. The Global Access Traveldoes not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. Yasal Uyar?; Bu e-posta, sadece adreste belirtilen kisi veya kurulusun kullanimini hedeflemekte olup,mesajda yer alan bilgiler kisiye ozel ve gizli olabilir, yasalar ya da anlasmalar geregi ?c?nc? kisiler ile paylasilmasi m?mk?n olmayabilir.Mesaji alan kisi, mesajin g?nderilmek istendigi kisi veya kurulus degilse,bu mesaji yaymak,dagitmak veya kopyalamak yasaktir Mesaj tarafiniza yanlislikla ulasmissa l?tfen mesaji geri g?nderiniz ve sisteminizden siliniz. Global Access Travel bu mesajin icerigi ile ilgili olarak hicbir hukuksal sorumlulugu kabul etmez Disclaimer This e-mail communication is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and that may not be made public by law or agreement. If the recipient of this message is not the intended recipient or entity, you are hereby notified that any further dissemination, distribution or copying of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete it from your system. The Global Access Traveldoes not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. Yasal Uyar?; Bu e-posta, sadece adreste belirtilen kisi veya kurulusun kullanimini hedeflemekte olup,mesajda yer alan bilgiler kisiye ozel ve gizli olabilir, yasalar ya da anlasmalar geregi ?c?nc? kisiler ile paylasilmasi m?mk?n olmayabilir.Mesaji alan kisi, mesajin g?nderilmek istendigi kisi veya kurulus degilse,bu mesaji yaymak,dagitmak veya kopyalamak yasaktir Mesaj tarafiniza yanlislikla ulasmissa l?tfen mesaji geri g?nderiniz ve sisteminizden siliniz. Global Access Travel bu mesajin icerigi ile ilgili olarak hicbir hukuksal sorumlulugu kabul etmez Disclaimer This e-mail communication is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and that may not be made public by law or agreement. If the recipient of this message is not the intended recipient or entity, you are hereby notified that any further dissemination, distribution or copying of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete it from your system. The Global Access Traveldoes not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. This message was sent by: TURKEY CALLING YOU TO VISIT "THE TRADE SHOW" IN LAS VEGAS, N?zhetiye Cad, istanbul, Besiktas 34357, Turkey Manage your subscription: http://app.icontact.com/icp/mmail-mprofile.pl?r=47622547&l=82253&s=4PVN&m=587775&c=305227 From lev at FreeBSD.org Sat Sep 12 17:02:18 2009 From: lev at FreeBSD.org (Lev Serebryakov) Date: Sat Sep 12 17:02:24 2009 Subject: Some small networked box with FreeBSD support? Message-ID: <1194242475.20090912204353@serebryakov.spb.ru> Hello, Freebsd-embedded. I need small, cheap and silent box with one or two network ports (ARM/MIPS, I think), like legendary ASUS WL500G and other OpenWRT-supported boxes, but with FreeBSD "support". I'm using Soekris net5501 (x86) now and very happy with it, but it is expensive and very-hard-to-buy in Russia, so I can not buy another one as second such box. I don't need WiFi or ADSL in this box, but it will be a plus. Is here any known, SOHO-market, well-availiable sopaboxes, on which FreeBSD could be installed, with wire network support? -- // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov From philip.mullis at syx.ca Sun Sep 13 01:57:54 2009 From: philip.mullis at syx.ca (Philip Mullis) Date: Sun Sep 13 01:58:00 2009 Subject: Some small networked box with FreeBSD support? References: <1194242475.20090912204353@serebryakov.spb.ru> Message-ID: <78ACB4D316DCF346930D02BC4B2A4FE905DCD945@mail.syx.local> Have you looked at the alix pcengines boards? there amd geode based and you can get 3 port versions for around 110usd perhaps easier to get in your region than soekris. ________________________________ From: owner-freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org on behalf of Lev Serebryakov Sent: Sat 9/12/2009 12:43 PM To: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Subject: Some small networked box with FreeBSD support? Hello, Freebsd-embedded. I need small, cheap and silent box with one or two network ports (ARM/MIPS, I think), like legendary ASUS WL500G and other OpenWRT-supported boxes, but with FreeBSD "support". I'm using Soekris net5501 (x86) now and very happy with it, but it is expensive and very-hard-to-buy in Russia, so I can not buy another one as second such box. I don't need WiFi or ADSL in this box, but it will be a plus. Is here any known, SOHO-market, well-availiable sopaboxes, on which FreeBSD could be installed, with wire network support? -- // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov _______________________________________________ freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-embedded To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-embedded-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" From matt at smiffytech.com Sun Sep 13 04:21:41 2009 From: matt at smiffytech.com (Matthew Smith) Date: Sun Sep 13 04:21:49 2009 Subject: Some small networked box with FreeBSD support? In-Reply-To: <78ACB4D316DCF346930D02BC4B2A4FE905DCD945@mail.syx.local> References: <1194242475.20090912204353@serebryakov.spb.ru> <78ACB4D316DCF346930D02BC4B2A4FE905DCD945@mail.syx.local> Message-ID: <4AAC6ED0.5030702@smiffytech.com> Quoth Philip Mullis at 2009-09-13 11:11... > Have you looked at the alix pcengines boards? there amd geode based and you can get 3 port versions for around 110usd perhaps easier to get in your region than soekris. These look pretty cool - and cheap. I've been mucking around with some ancient PC104 SBCs, planning to get some sort of Flash FreeBSD installation so I can hook it into a GPS module and use it as a Stratum 1 NTP server. Might be a lot easier to use one of these instead - and as I need to track down a load of extra (and old fashioned) RAM, may not cost more either. Don't suppose anyone has a suitable disc image that will fit on a 4Gb CF card? (Part of the reason I haven't got very far with this is the fact that getting FreeBSD to install in 4Gb seems more fiddly than I have the time for.) What I really like about these Alix boards is that the regulator will take up to 16V (absolute maximum) - ideal for 13.8V float charging a lead acid battery. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy Skype: msmiffy Twitter: @smiffy From imp at bsdimp.com Sun Sep 13 05:29:57 2009 From: imp at bsdimp.com (M. Warner Losh) Date: Sun Sep 13 05:30:03 2009 Subject: Some small networked box with FreeBSD support? In-Reply-To: <4AAC6ED0.5030702@smiffytech.com> References: <1194242475.20090912204353@serebryakov.spb.ru> <78ACB4D316DCF346930D02BC4B2A4FE905DCD945@mail.syx.local> <4AAC6ED0.5030702@smiffytech.com> Message-ID: <20090912.232959.723161857.imp@bsdimp.com> In message: <4AAC6ED0.5030702@smiffytech.com> Matthew Smith writes: : Quoth Philip Mullis at 2009-09-13 11:11... : > Have you looked at the alix pcengines boards? there amd geode based and you can get 3 port versions for around 110usd perhaps easier to get in your region than soekris. : : These look pretty cool - and cheap. : : I've been mucking around with some ancient PC104 SBCs, planning to get : some sort of Flash FreeBSD installation so I can hook it into a GPS : module and use it as a Stratum 1 NTP server. : : Might be a lot easier to use one of these instead - and as I need to : track down a load of extra (and old fashioned) RAM, may not cost more : either. : : Don't suppose anyone has a suitable disc image that will fit on a 4Gb CF : card? (Part of the reason I haven't got very far with this is the fact : that getting FreeBSD to install in 4Gb seems more fiddly than I have the : time for.) FreeBSD installs into about 400MB w/o any tweaks at all. so 4gb should be child's play. Warner From matt at smiffytech.com Sun Sep 13 05:36:41 2009 From: matt at smiffytech.com (Matthew Smith) Date: Sun Sep 13 05:36:48 2009 Subject: Some small networked box with FreeBSD support? In-Reply-To: <20090912.232959.723161857.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <1194242475.20090912204353@serebryakov.spb.ru> <78ACB4D316DCF346930D02BC4B2A4FE905DCD945@mail.syx.local> <4AAC6ED0.5030702@smiffytech.com> <20090912.232959.723161857.imp@bsdimp.com> Message-ID: <4AAC84E8.2090102@smiffytech.com> Quoth M. Warner Losh at 2009-09-13 14:59... > : Don't suppose anyone has a suitable disc image that will fit on a 4Gb CF > : card? (Part of the reason I haven't got very far with this is the fact > : that getting FreeBSD to install in 4Gb seems more fiddly than I have the > : time for.) > > FreeBSD installs into about 400MB w/o any tweaks at all. so 4gb > should be child's play. I must have been doing something wrong because the couple of times I tried, it ran out of space. Perhaps I need to do a minimal install and then add any packages I need by hand. Thanks for that. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy Skype: msmiffy Twitter: @smiffy From lev at FreeBSD.org Sun Sep 13 07:13:31 2009 From: lev at FreeBSD.org (Lev Serebryakov) Date: Sun Sep 13 07:13:37 2009 Subject: Some small networked box with FreeBSD support? In-Reply-To: <78ACB4D316DCF346930D02BC4B2A4FE905DCD945@mail.syx.local> References: <1194242475.20090912204353@serebryakov.spb.ru> <78ACB4D316DCF346930D02BC4B2A4FE905DCD945@mail.syx.local> Message-ID: <1183206570.20090913111319@serebryakov.spb.ru> Hello, Philip. You wrote 13 ???????? 2009 ?., 05:41:37: > Have you looked at the alix pcengines boards? there amd geode based > and you can get 3 port versions for around 110usd perhaps easier to get in your region than soekris. Looks interesting, thank you. And they support shipping with EMS which is best option for Russia Thank you. Other question is our custom, because they don't like "communication equipment," as it should be certified, but I hope they'll not "notice" only one piece. -- // Lev Serebryakov From matt at smiffytech.com Sun Sep 13 07:13:45 2009 From: matt at smiffytech.com (Matthew Smith) Date: Sun Sep 13 07:13:51 2009 Subject: Some small networked box with FreeBSD support? In-Reply-To: <4AAC84E8.2090102@smiffytech.com> References: <1194242475.20090912204353@serebryakov.spb.ru> <78ACB4D316DCF346930D02BC4B2A4FE905DCD945@mail.syx.local> <4AAC6ED0.5030702@smiffytech.com> <20090912.232959.723161857.imp@bsdimp.com> <4AAC84E8.2090102@smiffytech.com> Message-ID: <4AAC9BA7.9000307@smiffytech.com> Quoth Matthew Smith at 2009-09-13 15:06... >> FreeBSD installs into about 400MB w/o any tweaks at all. so 4gb >> should be child's play. > > I must have been doing something wrong because the couple of times I > tried, it ran out of space. Perhaps I need to do a minimal install and > then add any packages I need by hand. Just out of curiosity, I tried the same installation (FreeBSD 6.3, i386 - kernel developer config) on a VMware virtual machine to which I had allocated 16Gb of disc. No problems. The clean installation takes up about 650Mb. Why the installation is failing on the 4Gb drive I cannot fathom. Obviously the installer is doing *something* funny. Whilst the Alix devices still look attractive, I've just ordered some RAM via eBay to take both the SBCs up to 128Mb (currently only have 16Mb each.) Will see if I can't get something working. (Odds are the wretched things won't boot off the CF disc like the old ThinkPad I tried it in.) Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy Skype: msmiffy Twitter: @smiffy From lev at FreeBSD.org Sun Sep 13 10:25:51 2009 From: lev at FreeBSD.org (Lev Serebryakov) Date: Sun Sep 13 10:26:02 2009 Subject: Some small networked box with FreeBSD support? In-Reply-To: <4AAC9BA7.9000307@smiffytech.com> References: <1194242475.20090912204353@serebryakov.spb.ru> <78ACB4D316DCF346930D02BC4B2A4FE905DCD945@mail.syx.local> <4AAC6ED0.5030702@smiffytech.com> <20090912.232959.723161857.imp@bsdimp.com> <4AAC84E8.2090102@smiffytech.com> <4AAC9BA7.9000307@smiffytech.com> Message-ID: <1972194029.20090913142539@serebryakov.spb.ru> Hello, Matthew. You wrote 13 ???????? 2009 ?., 11:13:43: > The clean installation takes up about 650Mb. Why the installation is > failing on the 4Gb drive I cannot fathom. Obviously the installer is > doing *something* funny. I've installed 7.1 on 1Gb flash cards in usual way (via network boot, without any modification of release image, only unpack it from ISO to NFS server and fix loader.conf to boot from NFS) without any problems. -- // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov From philip.mullis at syx.ca Sun Sep 13 15:23:37 2009 From: philip.mullis at syx.ca (Philip Mullis) Date: Sun Sep 13 15:23:44 2009 Subject: Some small networked box with FreeBSD support? In-Reply-To: <4AAC9BA7.9000307@smiffytech.com> References: <1194242475.20090912204353@serebryakov.spb.ru> <78ACB4D316DCF346930D02BC4B2A4FE905DCD945@mail.syx.local> <4AAC6ED0.5030702@smiffytech.com> <20090912.232959.723161857.imp@bsdimp.com> <4AAC84E8.2090102@smiffytech.com> <4AAC9BA7.9000307@smiffytech.com> Message-ID: <55D0263D-AE76-48EC-9BA5-01E240EB8C30@mail.syx.ca> An option most people overlook are the tools for making embedded and small footprint builds which exist in the usr/src/tools tree You can create Very small images with tools like tinybsd and nanobsd both of which produce image files which you can simply dd to your cf card I have a pbx,webservet and a few other things in less than 58megs There are some notable tips and tricks when dealing with solid state units like cf cards but are application specific. I've been using the pcengines boards for a long time, one of the largest sets of benifits I found was -no heatsinks or fans -cf cards make it completly silent -built in crypto acceleration on the new geode based units -price, there similar to soekris but 1/4 the price -mfgr provides full blueprints -best of all ... Low power consumption 4watts! On average.. You can run one of a large battery for over a week and in countrys where residential power is 75c/kWh these can save you over 600$ a year in power( for those considering turning an old clunker into a router ) Sent from my iPhone On Sep 13, 2009, at 3:14 AM, "Matthew Smith" wrote: > Quoth Matthew Smith at 2009-09-13 15:06... >>> FreeBSD installs into about 400MB w/o any tweaks at all. so 4gb >>> should be child's play. >> >> I must have been doing something wrong because the couple of times I >> tried, it ran out of space. Perhaps I need to do a minimal install >> and >> then add any packages I need by hand. > > Just out of curiosity, I tried the same installation (FreeBSD 6.3, > i386 > - kernel developer config) on a VMware virtual machine to which I had > allocated 16Gb of disc. No problems. > > The clean installation takes up about 650Mb. Why the installation is > failing on the 4Gb drive I cannot fathom. Obviously the installer is > doing *something* funny. > > Whilst the Alix devices still look attractive, I've just ordered some > RAM via eBay to take both the SBCs up to 128Mb (currently only have > 16Mb > each.) Will see if I can't get something working. (Odds are the > wretched things won't boot off the CF disc like the old ThinkPad I > tried > it in.) > > Cheers > > M > > -- > Matthew Smith > Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development > Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ > Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy > Skype: msmiffy > Twitter: @smiffy > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-embedded > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-embedded-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > " From ask at develooper.com Sun Sep 13 20:13:10 2009 From: ask at develooper.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ask_Bj=F8rn_Hansen?=) Date: Sun Sep 13 20:13:16 2009 Subject: NanoBSD on VMware (no serial console) Message-ID: <32CA43D9-7E99-46FA-80E2-9819E9E0387E@develooper.com> Hi everyone, I used qemu-img (on a Linux box) to convert my nanobsd image to vmdk (vmware disk) format to try booting it on VMware. When I'm booting on that image, it gets stuck at the "BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02" line. I suspect because my NanoBSD image is setup to just boot on devices with serial ports (which is all I've needed so far). What do I need to do to make it work with either a regular monitor or the serial port if there's no keyboard/monitor? For boot0cfg I use boot0sio, do I need to make two separate images just to have different boot loaders? I also have hint.atkbdc.0.disabled="1" in my boot/loader.conf -- I can't figure out where the documentation for that is, but I'm guessing for my "PC boot" image I need to not have that, right? - ask From ask at develooper.com Sun Sep 13 20:29:29 2009 From: ask at develooper.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ask_Bj=F8rn_Hansen?=) Date: Sun Sep 13 20:29:36 2009 Subject: NanoBSD on VMware (no serial console) In-Reply-To: <32CA43D9-7E99-46FA-80E2-9819E9E0387E@develooper.com> References: <32CA43D9-7E99-46FA-80E2-9819E9E0387E@develooper.com> Message-ID: On Sep 13, 2009, at 12:46, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote: [booting nanobsd on vmware] > What do I need to do to make it work with either a regular monitor > or the serial port if there's no keyboard/monitor? > > For boot0cfg I use boot0sio, do I need to make two separate images > just to have different boot loaders? > > I also have > > hint.atkbdc.0.disabled="1" I changed boot0sio to boot0 and disabled made loader.conf have hint.atkbdc.0.disabled="0" and now I get the choice of which NanoBSD partition to boot, but it freezes after showing "\" on the next line. Any ideas? - ask -- http://develooper.com/ - http://askask.com/ From info at martenvijn.nl Sun Sep 13 21:31:09 2009 From: info at martenvijn.nl (Marten Vijn) Date: Sun Sep 13 21:31:14 2009 Subject: NanoBSD on VMware (no serial console) In-Reply-To: References: <32CA43D9-7E99-46FA-80E2-9819E9E0387E@develooper.com> Message-ID: <1252876345.19468.12.camel@mvn-desktop> On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 13:29 -0700, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote: > On Sep 13, 2009, at 12:46, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote: > > [booting nanobsd on vmware] > > What do I need to do to make it work with either a regular monitor > > or the serial port if there's no keyboard/monitor? > > > > For boot0cfg I use boot0sio, do I need to make two separate images > > just to have different boot loaders? > > > > I also have > > > > hint.atkbdc.0.disabled="1" > > I changed boot0sio to boot0 and disabled made loader.conf have > hint.atkbdc.0.disabled="0" and now I get the choice of which NanoBSD > partition to boot, but it freezes after showing "\" on the next line. > > Any ideas? make sure cust_comconsole is not switched on by customize_cmd cust_comconsole + check and change these vars: NANO_BOOT0CFG="-o packet -s 1 -m 3" NANO_BOOTLOADER="boot/boot0sio" to your needs by make your config file and call this with nanobsd.sh -c your file.cfg optionally consider options -b or -k or -w, run nanobsd.sh -h for help. and/or consider this path on nanobsd.sh 574c574 < echo " -h" > ${NANO_WORLDDIR}/boot.config --- > echo " -D" > ${NANO_WORLDDIR}/boot.config see: man boot.config man boot Hope i helps. cheers Marten > > > - ask > -- this email is sent from my mainframe..... http://martenvijn.nl Sugar on a Stick http://bsd.wifisoft.org/nek/ The Network Event Kit http://opencommunitycamp.org 26th Jul - 2nd August From matt at smiffytech.com Mon Sep 14 00:22:45 2009 From: matt at smiffytech.com (Matthew Smith) Date: Mon Sep 14 00:22:51 2009 Subject: Some small networked box with FreeBSD support? In-Reply-To: <1252887409.1860.2.camel@localhost> References: <1194242475.20090912204353@serebryakov.spb.ru> <78ACB4D316DCF346930D02BC4B2A4FE905DCD945@mail.syx.local> <4AAC6ED0.5030702@smiffytech.com> <20090912.232959.723161857.imp@bsdimp.com> <4AAC84E8.2090102@smiffytech.com> <4AAC9BA7.9000307@smiffytech.com> <1252887409.1860.2.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <4AAD8CD2.2040308@smiffytech.com> Quoth Eric L. Chen at 2009-09-14 09:46... > I made a FreeBSD AP for my IXP425 board (XScale, ARM CPU), it has 64MB > RAM and 32 MB ROM (XOR Flash ROM). > My making script attached. Thanks, Eric! That should be helpful. I'd been steering away from NanoBSD and the like because it looked a bit complicated as most of my Unix-like experience is Linux and some early AIX. But now I think it's time for me to learn. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy Skype: msmiffy Twitter: @smiffy From imp at bsdimp.com Mon Sep 14 00:35:58 2009 From: imp at bsdimp.com (M. Warner Losh) Date: Mon Sep 14 00:36:04 2009 Subject: Some small networked box with FreeBSD support? In-Reply-To: <4AAD8CD2.2040308@smiffytech.com> References: <4AAC9BA7.9000307@smiffytech.com> <1252887409.1860.2.camel@localhost> <4AAD8CD2.2040308@smiffytech.com> Message-ID: <20090913.183706.691471158.imp@bsdimp.com> In message: <4AAD8CD2.2040308@smiffytech.com> Matthew Smith writes: : Quoth Eric L. Chen at 2009-09-14 09:46... : > I made a FreeBSD AP for my IXP425 board (XScale, ARM CPU), it has 64MB : > RAM and 32 MB ROM (XOR Flash ROM). : > My making script attached. : : Thanks, Eric! That should be helpful. : : I'd been steering away from NanoBSD and the like because it looked a bit : complicated as most of my Unix-like experience is Linux and some early : AIX. But now I think it's time for me to learn. It isn't so bad these days... It used to be really complicated, but most of those rough edges have been filed off... Warner From lihong at ieee.org Mon Sep 14 00:41:27 2009 From: lihong at ieee.org (Eric L. Chen) Date: Mon Sep 14 00:41:34 2009 Subject: Some small networked box with FreeBSD support? In-Reply-To: <4AAC9BA7.9000307@smiffytech.com> References: <1194242475.20090912204353@serebryakov.spb.ru> <78ACB4D316DCF346930D02BC4B2A4FE905DCD945@mail.syx.local> <4AAC6ED0.5030702@smiffytech.com> <20090912.232959.723161857.imp@bsdimp.com> <4AAC84E8.2090102@smiffytech.com> <4AAC9BA7.9000307@smiffytech.com> Message-ID: <1252887409.1860.2.camel@localhost> On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 16:43 +0930, Matthew Smith wrote: > Quoth Matthew Smith at 2009-09-13 15:06... > >> FreeBSD installs into about 400MB w/o any tweaks at all. so 4gb > >> should be child's play. > > > > I must have been doing something wrong because the couple of times I > > tried, it ran out of space. Perhaps I need to do a minimal install and > > then add any packages I need by hand. > > Just out of curiosity, I tried the same installation (FreeBSD 6.3, i386 > - kernel developer config) on a VMware virtual machine to which I had > allocated 16Gb of disc. No problems. > > The clean installation takes up about 650Mb. Why the installation is > failing on the 4Gb drive I cannot fathom. Obviously the installer is > doing *something* funny. > > Whilst the Alix devices still look attractive, I've just ordered some > RAM via eBay to take both the SBCs up to 128Mb (currently only have 16Mb > each.) Will see if I can't get something working. (Odds are the > wretched things won't boot off the CF disc like the old ThinkPad I tried > it in.) > > Cheers > > M > I made a FreeBSD AP for my IXP425 board (XScale, ARM CPU), it has 64MB RAM and 32 MB ROM (XOR Flash ROM). My making script attached. -- Eric L. Chen EMAIL: lihong?ieee.org -:|:- d9364104?mail.nchu.edu.tw From milu at dat.pl Mon Sep 14 06:28:17 2009 From: milu at dat.pl (Maciej Milewski) Date: Mon Sep 14 06:28:24 2009 Subject: Some small networked box with FreeBSD support? In-Reply-To: <1252887409.1860.2.camel@localhost> References: <1194242475.20090912204353@serebryakov.spb.ru> <4AAC9BA7.9000307@smiffytech.com> <1252887409.1860.2.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <200909140812.55628.milu@dat.pl> Dnia poniedzia?ek 14 wrzesie? 2009 o 02:16:49 Eric L. Chen napisa?(a): > I made a FreeBSD AP for my IXP425 board (XScale, ARM CPU), it has 64MB > RAM and 32 MB ROM (XOR Flash ROM). > My making script attached. HI, I'm interested how looks that script. Could you attach it to email. I think that it's missing in your email on the freebsd-embedded mailing list. What is the mboard that you have and which radio are you using for wireless? Best Regards, Maciej Milewski From uffe at uffe.org Mon Sep 14 06:49:18 2009 From: uffe at uffe.org (Uffe Jakobsen) Date: Mon Sep 14 06:49:24 2009 Subject: Some small networked box with FreeBSD support? In-Reply-To: <1252887409.1860.2.camel@localhost> References: <1194242475.20090912204353@serebryakov.spb.ru> <78ACB4D316DCF346930D02BC4B2A4FE905DCD945@mail.syx.local> <4AAC6ED0.5030702@smiffytech.com> <20090912.232959.723161857.imp@bsdimp.com> <4AAC84E8.2090102@smiffytech.com> <4AAC9BA7.9000307@smiffytech.com> <1252887409.1860.2.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <4AADE128.2040308@uffe.org> Hi Eric, Eric L. Chen wrote: > I made a FreeBSD AP for my IXP425 board (XScale, ARM CPU), it has 64MB > RAM and 32 MB ROM (XOR Flash ROM). > > My making script attached. > I see no attachment here - did you forget to attach the script/file ? /Uffe :-) From matt at smiffytech.com Mon Sep 14 06:55:05 2009 From: matt at smiffytech.com (Matthew Smith) Date: Mon Sep 14 06:55:11 2009 Subject: Some small networked box with FreeBSD support? In-Reply-To: <4AADE128.2040308@uffe.org> References: <1194242475.20090912204353@serebryakov.spb.ru> <78ACB4D316DCF346930D02BC4B2A4FE905DCD945@mail.syx.local> <4AAC6ED0.5030702@smiffytech.com> <20090912.232959.723161857.imp@bsdimp.com> <4AAC84E8.2090102@smiffytech.com> <4AAC9BA7.9000307@smiffytech.com> <1252887409.1860.2.camel@localhost> <4AADE128.2040308@uffe.org> Message-ID: <4AADE8C6.1070303@smiffytech.com> Quoth Uffe Jakobsen at 2009-09-14 15:52... > I see no attachment here - did you forget to attach the script/file ? It turned up here fine - but then I was on a cc for Eric's mail. I think that the list probably doesn't allow attachments and has dropped it. I'll forward it to you directly. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Blog/personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy Skype: msmiffy Twitter: @smiffy From bugmaster at FreeBSD.org Mon Sep 14 11:06:57 2009 From: bugmaster at FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugmaster) Date: Mon Sep 14 11:07:43 2009 Subject: Current problem reports assigned to freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <200909141106.n8EB6uUY072275@freefall.freebsd.org> Note: to view an individual PR, use: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=(number). The following is a listing of current problems submitted by FreeBSD users. These represent problem reports covering all versions including experimental development code and obsolete releases. S Tracker Resp. Description -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- o misc/136889 embedded [nanobsd] [path] nanobsd error reporting and other ref o misc/135588 embedded [nanobsd] simple patch for adding amd64 support o misc/52256 embedded [picobsd] picobsd build script does not read in user/s o kern/42728 embedded [picobsd] many problems in src/usr.sbin/ppp/* after c 4 problems total. From mike at sentex.net Mon Sep 14 15:19:27 2009 From: mike at sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) Date: Mon Sep 14 15:19:33 2009 Subject: Some small networked box with FreeBSD support? In-Reply-To: <1252887409.1860.2.camel@localhost> References: <1194242475.20090912204353@serebryakov.spb.ru> <78ACB4D316DCF346930D02BC4B2A4FE905DCD945@mail.syx.local> <4AAC6ED0.5030702@smiffytech.com> <20090912.232959.723161857.imp@bsdimp.com> <4AAC84E8.2090102@smiffytech.com> <4AAC9BA7.9000307@smiffytech.com> <1252887409.1860.2.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <200909141448.n8EEmhwX021599@lava.sentex.ca> At 08:16 PM 9/13/2009, Eric L. Chen wrote: > > M > > >I made a FreeBSD AP for my IXP425 board (XScale, ARM CPU), it has 64MB >RAM and 32 MB ROM (XOR Flash ROM). >My making script attached. Hi, Where did you source the hardware ? Could you post the build script somewhere ? We have been using Alix boxes, but are looking for something smaller for a different application and wanted to try out the XScale Thanks, ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike From bob at xa.net Wed Sep 16 00:56:59 2009 From: bob at xa.net (Robert Keyes) Date: Wed Sep 16 00:57:05 2009 Subject: Some small networked box with FreeBSD support? In-Reply-To: <78ACB4D316DCF346930D02BC4B2A4FE905DCD945@mail.syx.local> References: <1194242475.20090912204353@serebryakov.spb.ru> <78ACB4D316DCF346930D02BC4B2A4FE905DCD945@mail.syx.local> Message-ID: Hi, not to try to pip my warez, but I see this messages just as I am trying to sell my gateworks boards. What is the consensus of the group as to how well suited these are to freebsd? Right now they have old version of Linux on them. These are the model GW2348-4 with 4 minipci slots on them. I've got ubiquiti wifi cards for several bands, and gps modules for the GPIO slots to go along with them. Discuss how well these work with FreeBSD on the list, but any offers or questions specific to the board should be directed to me privately. From bugmaster at FreeBSD.org Mon Sep 21 11:06:52 2009 From: bugmaster at FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugmaster) Date: Mon Sep 21 11:07:47 2009 Subject: Current problem reports assigned to freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <200909211106.n8LB6pq5030196@freefall.freebsd.org> Note: to view an individual PR, use: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=(number). The following is a listing of current problems submitted by FreeBSD users. These represent problem reports covering all versions including experimental development code and obsolete releases. S Tracker Resp. Description -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- o misc/136889 embedded [nanobsd] [path] nanobsd error reporting and other ref o misc/135588 embedded [nanobsd] simple patch for adding amd64 support o misc/52256 embedded [picobsd] picobsd build script does not read in user/s o kern/42728 embedded [picobsd] many problems in src/usr.sbin/ppp/* after c 4 problems total. From boneandfat at gmail.com Thu Sep 24 06:26:32 2009 From: boneandfat at gmail.com (Z G) Date: Thu Sep 24 06:26:38 2009 Subject: why my nanobsd on CF boot very slowly? any advice? thanks. Message-ID: <95139c170909232253k6a33267dt6d91f2d3e25c9a30@mail.gmail.com> I write nanobsd of FreeBSD 8.0 BETA3 to CF card. CF is put into one industry PC with CF slot. After PC is powered on, it takes a very long time to really boot. can some one give me advice on how to resolve this question? thanks a lot. From olivier at cochard.me Thu Sep 24 08:30:55 2009 From: olivier at cochard.me (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Olivier_Cochard=2DLabb=E9?=) Date: Thu Sep 24 08:31:04 2009 Subject: why my nanobsd on CF boot very slowly? any advice? thanks. In-Reply-To: <95139c170909232253k6a33267dt6d91f2d3e25c9a30@mail.gmail.com> References: <95139c170909232253k6a33267dt6d91f2d3e25c9a30@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <3131aa530909240130l7065ee7h3461eb696a0710a3@mail.gmail.com> Hi, On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Z G wrote: > I write nanobsd of FreeBSD 8.0 BETA3 to CF card. > CF is put into one industry PC with CF slot. > After PC is powered on, it takes a very long time to really boot. How long it takes to boot ? 20 minutes or 5 minutes ? What steps take time: BIOS, FreeBSD loader or kernel loading ? Regards, Olivier From boneandfat at gmail.com Thu Sep 24 11:10:14 2009 From: boneandfat at gmail.com (Z G) Date: Thu Sep 24 11:10:21 2009 Subject: why my nanobsd on CF boot very slowly? any advice? thanks. In-Reply-To: <3131aa530909240130l7065ee7h3461eb696a0710a3@mail.gmail.com> References: <95139c170909232253k6a33267dt6d91f2d3e25c9a30@mail.gmail.com> <3131aa530909240130l7065ee7h3461eb696a0710a3@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <95139c170909240410t531e6070g6115b8827d6ca5d@mail.gmail.com> HI, it takes several minutes, less than 5 minutes. this happens after power on and before "boot -h" is printed on screen. are these information enough to find the solution? gaozheng 2009/9/24, Olivier Cochard-Labb? : > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Z G wrote: >> I write nanobsd of FreeBSD 8.0 BETA3 to CF card. >> CF is put into one industry PC with CF slot. >> After PC is powered on, it takes a very long time to really boot. > > How long it takes to boot ? 20 minutes or 5 minutes ? > What steps take time: BIOS, FreeBSD loader or kernel loading ? > > Regards, > > Olivier > From olivier at cochard.me Thu Sep 24 11:59:48 2009 From: olivier at cochard.me (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Olivier_Cochard=2DLabb=E9?=) Date: Thu Sep 24 11:59:54 2009 Subject: why my nanobsd on CF boot very slowly? any advice? thanks. In-Reply-To: <95139c170909240410t531e6070g6115b8827d6ca5d@mail.gmail.com> References: <95139c170909232253k6a33267dt6d91f2d3e25c9a30@mail.gmail.com> <3131aa530909240130l7065ee7h3461eb696a0710a3@mail.gmail.com> <95139c170909240410t531e6070g6115b8827d6ca5d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <3131aa530909240459k656bfa9bi34fdccf521d53a80@mail.gmail.com> 2009/9/24 Z G : > HI, > ?it takes several minutes, less than 5 minutes. > this happens after power on and before "boot -h" is printed on screen. If you need to wait 5 minutes before to read "boot -h" the problem seems to be during the BIOS step. Can you check or configure your BIOS for a fast-booting ? (no RAM testing, no floppy disk seaking, etc...) Regards, Olivier From info at martenvijn.nl Thu Sep 24 17:41:55 2009 From: info at martenvijn.nl (Marten Vijn) Date: Thu Sep 24 17:42:02 2009 Subject: mfsBSD Message-ID: <1253814112.16301.2.camel@mvn-desktop> Hi Just a question, about mfsBSD. http://people.freebsd.org/~mm/mfsbsd/ I have been playing with for a coulpe days now, I and seem to like it :) I think it deserves a place I base next to nanobsd and tinybsd. What do you think? cheers, Marten -- this email is sent from my mainframe..... http://martenvijn.nl Sugar on a Stick http://bsd.wifisoft.org/nek/ The Network Event Kit http://opencommunitycamp.org 26th Jul - 2nd August From info at rickvanderzwet.nl Fri Sep 25 05:24:44 2009 From: info at rickvanderzwet.nl (Rick van der Zwet) Date: Fri Sep 25 05:24:50 2009 Subject: why my nanobsd on CF boot very slowly? any advice? thanks. In-Reply-To: <95139c170909232253k6a33267dt6d91f2d3e25c9a30@mail.gmail.com> References: <95139c170909232253k6a33267dt6d91f2d3e25c9a30@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5aaae08a0909242154i5491f925l252e98a68f536892@mail.gmail.com> 2009/9/24 Z G : > I write nanobsd of FreeBSD 8.0 BETA3 to CF card. > CF is put into one industry PC with CF slot. > After PC is powered on, it takes a very long time to really boot. a) Could you give some pointers on what specific subset of the boot process takes very long? Preferred format is to post the log messages before, during and after the slow part of the boot. b) As you are (obviously) trying the beta version I guess you have also tried to boot with stable version RELENG_7_2 to check that the slow boot process also occurs over there. This will give us pointers whether it is some potential bug in RELENG_8. /Rick -- http://rickvanderzwet.nl From boneandfat at gmail.com Fri Sep 25 06:25:51 2009 From: boneandfat at gmail.com (Z G) Date: Fri Sep 25 06:25:58 2009 Subject: why my nanobsd on CF boot very slowly? any advice? thanks. In-Reply-To: <5aaae08a0909242154i5491f925l252e98a68f536892@mail.gmail.com> References: <95139c170909232253k6a33267dt6d91f2d3e25c9a30@mail.gmail.com> <5aaae08a0909242154i5491f925l252e98a68f536892@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <95139c170909242325i10462234ke0efa2e58498e7ee@mail.gmail.com> Last day I recorded the time of booting. After I press power button, boot logo and "_" take a bit more than one minutes. then "BTX loader" is printed on screen. One nanobsd of 7.0 Release was written to CF on similar PC. It also took several minutes to boot. gaozheng 2009/9/25 Rick van der Zwet > 2009/9/24 Z G : > > I write nanobsd of FreeBSD 8.0 BETA3 to CF card. > > CF is put into one industry PC with CF slot. > > After PC is powered on, it takes a very long time to really boot. > > a) Could you give some pointers on what specific subset of the boot > process takes very long? Preferred format is to post the log messages > before, during and after the slow part of the boot. > > b) As you are (obviously) trying the beta version I guess you have > also tried to boot with stable version RELENG_7_2 to check that the > slow boot process also occurs over there. This will give us pointers > whether it is some potential bug in RELENG_8. > > /Rick > -- > http://rickvanderzwet.nl > From uffe at uffe.org Fri Sep 25 11:37:16 2009 From: uffe at uffe.org (Uffe Jakobsen) Date: Fri Sep 25 11:37:22 2009 Subject: mfsBSD In-Reply-To: <1253814112.16301.2.camel@mvn-desktop> References: <1253814112.16301.2.camel@mvn-desktop> Message-ID: <4ABCAB65.7080401@uffe.org> Marten Vijn wrote: > > I think it deserves a place I base next > to nanobsd and tinybsd. > > What do you think? > I agree - it is a quite useful tool /Uffe From bugmaster at FreeBSD.org Mon Sep 28 11:06:52 2009 From: bugmaster at FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugmaster) Date: Mon Sep 28 11:07:41 2009 Subject: Current problem reports assigned to freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <200909281106.n8SB6pbh063954@freefall.freebsd.org> Note: to view an individual PR, use: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=(number). The following is a listing of current problems submitted by FreeBSD users. These represent problem reports covering all versions including experimental development code and obsolete releases. S Tracker Resp. Description -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- o misc/136889 embedded [nanobsd] [path] nanobsd error reporting and other ref o misc/135588 embedded [nanobsd] simple patch for adding amd64 support o misc/52256 embedded [picobsd] picobsd build script does not read in user/s o kern/42728 embedded [picobsd] many problems in src/usr.sbin/ppp/* after c 4 problems total. From info at martenvijn.nl Wed Sep 30 20:41:37 2009 From: info at martenvijn.nl (Marten Vijn) Date: Wed Sep 30 20:41:44 2009 Subject: mfsBSD Message-ID: <1254343296.4993.6.camel@mvn-desktop> Some notes howto use mfsBSD and pxeboot to do wifi on events... http://martenvijn.nl/trac/wiki/mfsBSD There may be still some typo's. cheers, Marten -- this email is sent from my mainframe..... http://martenvijn.nl Sugar on a Stick http://bsd.wifisoft.org/nek/ The Network Event Kit http://opencommunitycamp.org 26th Jul - 2nd August