[Soekris] Net4521 Console Help

[Paul Carroll]

I have a Net4521 that was purchased for my husbands birthday several
years ago. It's not been in use for the past few years because his
laptop died... or whatever. Anyway, my husbands now deceased and I'm
trying to get the WAP working again because I'm purchasing a new laptop
(which I don't have yet).

So, thats my story. The question is, how do I tell if the thing is
working? I've got the console hooked up, and it seems to "boot" but then
the console goes to jibberish after the OS loads (seen below). Shouldn't
I be able to log into the OS or at least get some sort of prompt? The
bios seems first rev as well... ver 1.15. What a mess, huh?

Also, the light on the internal PC card is blinking... I'm thinking
that's not a good sign either. Help?

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1 Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor.
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS drive C: is disk0
BIOS 639kB/64512kB available memory

FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8
(root at nb.neon1.net, Sat May 29 16:40:46 CEST 2004)
/kernel text=0x189f60 data=0x1e908+0x1ae5c syms=[0x4+0x299c0+0x4+0x31044]
Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
Booting [kernel]...
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