[Soekris] What Ethernet driver for the 5501

Bent bbagger at gmail.com
Wed Aug 15 09:30:08 UTC 2007


Hi

I have made great progress and now have a working Linux on my 5501.
The crucial point turned out to be that pxelinux.0 is rather picky
about its configuration file in pxelinux.cfg:

As per the example in "Installing RedHat 9.0 on a Soekris 4801 SBC."
(http://www.xs4all.nl/~vhouten/Soekris.html) I had use the '\'
character to fold long lines. This doesn't work ;-) When I joined the
folded lines to one line, everything worked.

It appears that the console cannot be used after 'init' has completed.
I guess that that's normal?

I hope that the SATA mounting kit shows up soon, so I can make a more
permanent installation than the NFS-based one I have at the moment.

Anyway, thanks for the help and hints you gave.

Kind regards,

Bent


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