Soekris Engineering net5501-70

model: net5501-70 CPU: Geode LX 500 MHz memory: 512 MB RAM

power: 6 - 25 VDC, center pin positive console: COM1, default baud rate 19200, 8N1, no flow control

links: Soekris: net5501, Soekris wiki: net5501,

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2017-04-27: I connect a null mode cable to COM1 on the net5501 and to the serial port on my usb-to-serail adapter, then I fire up screen:

[tingo@kg-elitebook Desktop]$ screen /dev/ttyUSB0 19200

then I plug in a power (12 VDC, center positive) to the net5501

and it boots, and the monitor runs at 19200. If I press Ctrl-P before the net5501 boots, I get this:

comBIOS ver. 1.33c 20080626  Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Soekris Engineering.

net5501

0512 Mbyte Memory                        CPU Geode LX 500 Mhz

Pri Mas  SanDisk SDCFX-2048              LBA Xlt 992-64-63  2001 Mbyte

Slot   Vend Dev  ClassRev Cmd  Stat CL LT HT  Base1    Base2   Int
-------------------------------------------------------------------
0:01:2 1022 2082 10100000 0006 0220 08 00 00 A0000000 00000000 10
0:06:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E101 A0004000 11
0:07:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E201 A0004100 05
0:08:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E301 A0004200 09
0:09:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E401 A0004300 12
0:17:0 13A3 0020 0B400000 0116 0280 08 40 00 A0005000 A0006000 15
0:20:0 1022 2090 06010003 0009 02A0 08 40 80 00006001 00006101
0:20:2 1022 209A 01018001 0005 02A0 08 00 00 00000000 00000000
0:21:0 1022 2094 0C031002 0006 0230 08 00 80 A0010000 00000000 07
0:21:1 1022 2095 0C032002 0006 0230 08 00 00 A0011000 00000000 07

 4 Seconds to automatic boot.   Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor.

comBIOS Monitor.   Press ? for help.

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nice. comBIOS 1.33c is the newest one for the net5501. However, after booting, the serial speed is wrong, so I quit screen and guess - it is 9600 baud:

[tingo@kg-elitebook Desktop]$ screen /dev/ttyUSB0 9600

it runs pfSense

FreeBSD/i386 (pfSense.localdomain) (console)


*** Welcome to pfSense 2.0-BETA4-nanobsd (i386) on pfSense ***

  WAN (wan)                 -> vr1        -> NONE (DHCP)
  LAN (lan)                 -> vr0        -> 192.168.1.1

 pfSense console setup
***************************
 0)  Logout (SSH only)
 1)  Assign Interfaces
 2)  Set interface(s) IP address
 3)  Reset webConfigurator password
 4)  Reset to factory defaults
 5)  Reboot system
 6)  Halt system
 7)  Ping host
 8)  Shell
 9)  PFtop
10)  Filter Logs
11)  Restart webConfigurator
12)  pfSense Developer Shell
13)  Upgrade from console
14)  Enable Secure Shell (sshd)

Enter an option:

which is quite old, pfSense 2.0 was released in 2011.

2017-04-27: e1 - F25 - I connect up a usb-to-serail adapter to my HP laptop running Fedora, it shows up as ttyUSB0:

[tingo@kg-elitebook Desktop]$ ls -l /dev/ttyU*
crw-rw----. 1 root dialout 188, 0 Apr 27 13:14 /dev/ttyUSB0

from /var/log/messages

Apr 27 13:14:29 kg-elitebook kernel: usb 3-2: new full-speed USB device number 6 using xhci_hcd
Apr 27 13:14:29 kg-elitebook kernel: usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=067b, idProduct=2303
Apr 27 13:14:29 kg-elitebook kernel: usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
Apr 27 13:14:29 kg-elitebook kernel: usb 3-2: Product: USB-Serial Controller
Apr 27 13:14:29 kg-elitebook kernel: usb 3-2: Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc.
Apr 27 13:14:29 kg-elitebook mtp-probe: checking bus 3, device 6: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2"
Apr 27 13:14:29 kg-elitebook mtp-probe: bus: 3, device: 6 was not an MTP device
Apr 27 13:14:29 kg-elitebook kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver pl2303
Apr 27 13:14:29 kg-elitebook kernel: usbserial: USB Serial support registered for pl2303
Apr 27 13:14:29 kg-elitebook kernel: pl2303 3-2:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
Apr 27 13:14:29 kg-elitebook kernel: usb 3-2: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0

ok.

2017-04-26: I rescued a net5501.