Re: [leaf-user] PC Engines WRAP - Easiest Install?

[Victor M. <vic...@so...>]

Martin Hejl wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
>   
>> I have spent a while digging around in the documentation and the 
>> archives and have yet to find the answer I am looking for.  I have a 
>> PCEngines WRAP with a EMP-8602 (wireless card) & VPN1411 (VPN 
>> Accelerator).  I am using a 3.0GB microdrive.  I am trying to replace my 
>> Linksys WRT54G with this box.  What is going to be the fastest/easiest 
>> way to get it on LEAF on there?  pxe? premade cf image?
>>     
> I like the pxe approach - but that does take quite a bit of tweaking to
> get things going the first time (unless you're used to setting things
> like that up). Make sure you have hdsupp.lrp as part of the packages
> loaded via pxe, then follow the instructions you get when entering
> help hdsupp
> (or if that no longer works, "cat /var/lib/lrpkg/hdsupp.help")
>
> It's a real time saver if you need to set up several boxes at once, but
> for a single box, I'd go with a CF reader, a full checkout from CVS (or
> the contents of the CD image.
>
> Whichever way you go, make sure you enable a console on the serial port
> (by adding the proper settings to syslinux.cfg and to /etc/inittab).
> Otherwise, you'll have a hard time setting things up (since you won't
> have a console).
>
> See http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/buci-ide3.html for setting things up
> to boot from HD/CF and http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/buconsole.html
> for what changes one needs to make to use a serial console.
>
> Regarding your proposed setup - I assume the VPN1411 is the mini-pci
> card made by Soekris (using the Hi/fn 7955 chip). Please note that as
> far as I know, Bering uClibc does not bring have driver support for that
> card. It is possible that you can find drivers that compile against the
> kernel used by Bering uClibc. Last time I checked (which was a while
> ago) driver support for Linux was flaky at best.
> You'd most likely only want to use it for IPSec anyway - anecdotal
> evidence seems to suggest that this card does not help things if you're
> using it for a user-space app, since apparently, the penalty for
> crossing into kernel space for making the encryption eats up all of the
> gains from doing encryption in hardware.
> Please also note that there seem to be a problem with the BSD drivers (I
> bring that up because I seem to recall that there has been a port of the
> BSD crypto layer to Linux to add support for those cards) - see
> http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2006-October/011161.html
> maybe that's a problem that only concerns the soekris computers, but if
> not, you've been warned :-)
>
> I hope that helps,
> Martin
>
>   
I attach a CF to a Dos or Windows box, copy all the LRPs and make the CF 
bootable.  Then I boot the CF in an old box with an IDE to CF adapter.  
This box has a keyboard, screen and Netgear 311 NICs that use the same 
modules as the WRAP.   I make all the configuration changes except the 
watchdog and serial console and test everything on this box.  The last 
thing I do is make the changes for the serial console and watchdog then 
put this configured CF into the WRAP.  Works on the first boot.