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Re: Looking for suggestions for small, low power machine



On 05/25/2011 01:11 AM, Jukka Marin wrote:
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 05:36:05PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
I've been reasonably happy with Soekris 4511 and 5501 boxes for light network 
router/firewall/proxy/dhcpd roles:

   http://soekris.com/products/net5501.html

...and they worked well with NetBSD 3.x&  4.x.  They're completely silent (if 
using CF cards), and run
Is it easy to install NetBSD on these?  I think there were some quirks when
we were using older Soekris boards (many) years ago.

Wish I had the time to try porting NetBSD to AT91SAM9G20 (we have some hw
for that, but I don't like running linux on it).

   -jm

The Net5501 runs NetBSD well, except for the A20 issue in the boot loader that causes a 120 second delay on boot. Here's the bug report:

http://gnats.netbsd.org/39726

Hacking the boot loader to remove the offending code removes the delay and works reliably for many people. The Soekris mailing list archives has more info.

Jason M.


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