Archive | Soekris

25 December 2012 ~ Comments Off

Soekris CPU Scaling and OpenBSD 5.2

OpenBSD 5.2 was released nearly two months ago and I had forgotten to upgrade my Soekris net6501, apart from my driver now being part of the kernel, this release also added support to the SpeedStep frequency scaling driver for the Atom CPU. The simple benchmark to keep in mind is using the md5(1) command, using [...]

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09 June 2012 ~ Comments Off

Soekris net6501 improvements for OpenBSD

I’ve recently had committed to the OpenBSD project a kernel driver, tcpcib(4), that adds support for the hardware watchdog and HPET found in the Soekris net6501, (although it should also work on any system based around the Intel Atom E600 “Tunnel Creek” processor). I’ve not had any issue with my net6501 that has required a [...]

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20 January 2012 ~ Comments Off

OpenBSD PPPoE and RFC 4638

I upgraded my Internet connection from ADSL 2+ to FTTC a while ago. I’m with Eclipse as an ISP, but it’s basically the same product as BT Infinity, right down to the Openreach-branded modem, (a Huawei Echolife HG612 to be exact). With this modem, you need to use a router or some software that can [...]

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