[Cerowrt-devel] trying a pcengines box

[Outback Dingo]

Ill be duplicating your works on the jetway boards i just recieved..... a
bit higher end cpu memory and 8 GigE port count

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 3:30 AM, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Luis E. Garcia <luis at bitamins.net> wrote:
> > Put tinyOS on a USB stick.
>
>
> just dd the img file?
>
>  http://pcengines.ch/howto.htm#TinyCoreLinux
>
> > What do the first two lines fron BIOS/Boot sequence look like on your
> board?
>
> seabios rel 1.8.0-190-lotsofhashbits
>
>
> > Depending on the BIOS version preloaded on the board it might be able to
> > boot from the SD Card until it has been updated. PXE-Boot has been added
> in
> > the latest BIOS image - the menu option to enable it is there but on
> older
> > BIOS images it doesn't do anything - on the other hand on the latest
> image
> > it is enabled by default and you will always get the prompt to hit the
> key
> > to boot into it - after 10 seconds it times out and continues the boot
> > sequence.
> >
> > The male serial port is a hassle but I made an adapter to use the CISCO
> > style RJ45 to USB.
>
> No, in my world a female serial port is a hassle, being able to use this
>
>
> http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Modem-Serial-Adapter-ICUSB232FTN/dp/B008634VJY?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00
>
> without gender changer or null modem re-converter was a nice change.
>
> > Did you get both the APU1 and APU2 boards?
>
> apu2d4.
>
> > Luis
> >
> > On Friday, April 22, 2016, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear Luis:
> >>
> >> Well, the boards arrived today...
> >>
> >> Yea! The right gender serial port! A serial bios that...
> >>
> >> I tried to boot ubuntu 16.04, from a usb stick, it goes right to the
> >> memtest
> >> I put in tinyOS on the SDcard slot, it's not recognised as a bootable
> >> option in the first place.
> >> I enable pxe-boot, it doesn't show up in the menu
> >> I read up on bootloader upgrades, it appears you need to have a booted
> >> os to run the bootloader upgrade.
> >>
> >> ? How do I get the darn thing booted?
> >>
> >> Aside from that ( :) ), it's a very good looking board that could do
> >> exactly what I need, for two full length radios (or one half length
> >> with an adaptor), I guess I'd find a machine shop to drill 4 new holes
> >> for antennas.
> >>
> >> I'm a little nervous about the heat spreader also - the single cpu
> >> memtest hits 60C.
> >>
> >> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:12 AM, Luis E. Garcia <luis at bitamins.net>
> >> wrote:
> >> > I have both boards and can say that they both very good networking
> >> > platforms
> >> > - the apu1 has the small issue of the Realtek drivers for the ethernet
> >> > ports, Pascal has solved that i the apu2 by going with Intel ethernet
> >> > ports
> >> > - My guess is that they won't do a full marketing push on the apu2
> until
> >> > the
> >> > bios for it is feature-complete (it's very close now).
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Tuesday, April 19, 2016, Erkki Lintunen <erkki.lintunen at iki.fi>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> * Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> [2016-04-19 21:07:52 -0700]:
> >> >>
> >> >> > http://pcengines.ch/apu1d4.htm
> >> >>
> >> >> May it be you have missed their latest apu2 board with a better cpu?
> >> >>
> >> >> http://pcengines.ch/apu2b2.htm
> >> >>
> >> >> According to their price list apu2 with 4GB ram costs the same as
> >> >> apu1d4. A strange thing is that PC Engines is a bit shy on telling
> >> >> about
> >> >> apu2 and only link to apu2 product page I could find is very briefly
> on
> >> >> the bottom of their front page.
> >> >>
> >> >> - Erkki
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> >> --
> >> Dave Täht
> >> Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software!
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