[Voyage-linux] reboot problem - voyage 0.3 - soekris 4511

Sat Apr 21 18:41:28 HKT 2007

Hi,

I reflash the soekris with the bios version 1,26a.

Now the device reboot corectly.

It's something to know that with the bios 1,28 to 1,30, the soekris  
didn't reboot.

I'm going to test the watchdog but...

with voyage 0,2, to try the watchdog I set a wireless rate off 2 Mb/s

with an atheros with madwifi, when the settings are wifi A, setting a  
rate off 2 mbits fails the system
and I can test the watchdog.

(wifi A start at 6 mbits)

now, with the more recent madwifi, you can't do this. (that's a good  
thing)

My question is : does somebody knows something who's always going to  
fail the system
so I can test the watchdog.

Thanks, Cedric.

Le 19-avr.-07 à 07:23, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE a écrit :

Cedric,

My 4521 is very old one, may be 1.1x.

Regards,
Punky

Cédric wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 1. I didn't recompile the kernel, only downloaded the archive and  
> made a compact flash using the utility voyage.update.
> 2. I didn't try anything with the watchdog before having the reboot  
> working.
>
> I also have a question, wich bios version do you use with your  
> soekris 4521 ?
>
> Thanks, Cedric.
>
>
>
> Le 18-avr.-07 à 12:45, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE a écrit :
>
> Hi Cedric,
>
> Questions:
> 1. In voyage 0.3, did you use the recompile the kernel?
> 2. In voyage 0.3, do you load a watchdog driver? (but I don't know  
> what wd driver should be used)
>
> - Punky
>
> Cédric wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm from Brussels, Belgium where we experiment a Manet  
>> (metropolitan area network).
>>
>> We have some Soekris 4511 and 4501 running Voyage 0.2
>> We patched the watchdog driver and recompile it.
>> It was a long story but everything works fine now.
>>
>> But we recently made some 5 ghz links and thus wanted some more  
>> recent madwifi drivers.
>>
>> I try voyage 0.3 but I have a strange problem.
>>
>>
>> When I try to reboot the soekris. It always fails. I have to  
>> unplug power suply unit and plug it again to get it working.
>>
>> I update the bios on the Soekris to the new version 1.30, that  
>> doesn't change anything.
>>
>> May be voyage is now more WRAP oriented but if I can help to get  
>> it working fine with Soekris hardware...
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your help and sorry for my bad english.
>>
>> Cedric Ternon, Brussels.
>>
>>
>> The console log follows :
>>
>>
>>  __  __
>>  \ \/ /___ __  __ ___  ___  ___    Useful Commands:
>>   \  // _ \\ \/ /,-_ |/ _ |/ -_)     remountrw - mount disk as  
>> read-write
>>    \/ \___/ \  / \___,\_  |\___|     remountro - mount disk as  
>> read-only
>>            _/_/        _'_|          remove.docs - remove all docs  
>> and manpages
>>      { V o y a g e } - L i n u x
>>       < http://linux.voyage.hk >   Version: 0.3
>>
>>
>> voyage:~# reboot
>>
>> Broadcast message from root at voyage (ttyS0) (Wed Apr 18 12:11:21  
>> 2007):
>>
>> INIT: Stopping periodic command scheduler: crond.
>> Stopping watchdog daemon: watchdog.
>> Stopping advanced IEEE 802.11 management: hostapd.
>> nocatsplash daemon disabled - read /etc/default/nocatsplash.
>> Stopping internet superserver: inetd.
>> Stopping PPTP: pptpd.
>> Stopping rsync daemon: rsync.
>> Stopping OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd.
>> Saving the system clock..
>> Stopping DNS forwarder and DHCP server: dnsmasq.
>> Stopping kernel log daemon: klogd.
>> Stopping system log daemon: syslogd.
>> Asking all remaining processes to terminate...done.
>> Killing all remaining processes...done.
>> Deconfiguring network interfaces...done.
>> Cleaning up ifupdown....
>> Unmounting temporary filesystems...done.
>> Deactivating swap...done.
>> Will now restart.
>> Restarting system.
>> .
>>
>>
>> POST: 012345689bcefghipajklnopqr,,,tvwxy
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> comBIOS ver. 1.30  20070326  Copyright (C) 2000-2005 Soekris  
>> Engineering.
>>
>> net45xx
>>
>> 0032 Mbyte Memory                        CPU 80486 100 Mhz
>>
>> Pri Mas  TOSHIBA THNCF128MMA             LBA 978-8-32  125 Mbyte
>>
>> Slot   Vend Dev  ClassRev Cmd  Stat CL LT HT  Base1    Base2   Int
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 0:00:0 1022 3000 06000000 0006 2280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000
>> 0:09:0 104C AC50 06070002 0107 0210 10 3F 02 A0000000 020000A0 10
>> 0:16:0 168C 0013 02000001 0116 0290 10 3C 00 A0010000 00000000 11
>> 0:18:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E101 A0020000 05
>> 0:19:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E201 A0021000 09
>>
>>  1 Seconds to automatic boot.   Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor.
>>
>> NSC DP83815/DP83816 Fast Ethernet UNDI, v1.03
>> Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 National Semiconductor Corporation
>> All rights reserved.
>>
>> Pre-boot eXecution Environment  PXE-2.0 (build 082)
>> Copyright (C) 1997-2000  Intel Corporation
>>
>> PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
>> PXE-M0F: Exiting MacPhyter PXE ROM.
>>
>> No Boot device available, enter monitor.
>>
>>
>> comBIOS Monitor.   Press ? for help.
>>
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> After a reboot, the Soekris doens't want to boot on the compact  
>> flash.
>> If I unplug and replug power, it works fine.
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
> --Regards,
> Punky
>
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