Installation

I'm presently running net45xx-1.235.img without any problem, and decided to try the latest embedded-1.3b15.img which yields the below error

Code:

FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
(root@mb63.neon1.net, Sat Aug 23 21:46:54 CEST 2008)
/kernel text=0x32c5bc data=0x3c714+0x24754 syms=[0x4+0x448b0+0x4+0x5734d]
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FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p5 #0: Fri Oct  3 13:41:19 CEST 2008
    root@mb63.neon1.net:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/M0N0WALL_EMBEDDED
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD Enhanced Am486DX4/Am5x86 Write-Back (486-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x494  Stepping = 4
  Features=0x1<FPU>
real memory  = 33554432 (32 MB)
avail memory = 10973184 (10 MB)
wlan: mac acl policy registered
ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
cpu0 on motherboard
sysctl machdep.i8254_freq=1189161 returns 0
Timecounter "ELAN" frequency 8333333 Hz quality 1000
pcib0: <AMD Elan SC520 host to PCI bridge> pcibus 0 on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
cbb0: <TI1410 PCI-CardBus Bridge> mem 0xa0000000-0xa0000fff irq 10 at device 9.0 on pci0
cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
sis0: <NatSemi DP8381[56] 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe100-0xe1ff mem 0xa0001000-0xa0001fff irq 11 at device 18.0 on pci0
sis0: Silicon Revision: DP83815D
miibus0: <MII bus> on sis0
ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
sis0: Ethernet address: 00:00:24:c1:18:38
sis1: <NatSemi DP8381[56] 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe200-0xe2ff mem 0xa0002000-0xa0002fff irq 5 at device 19.0 on pci0
sis1: Silicon Revision: DP83815D
miibus1: <MII bus> on sis1
ukphy1: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus1
ukphy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
sis1: Ethernet address: 00:00:24:c1:18:39
isa0: <ISA bus> on motherboard
pmtimer0 on isa0
orm0: <ISA Option ROM> at iomem 0xc8000-0xd0fff on isa0
ata0 at port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 irq 14 on isa0
ata1 at port 0x170-0x177,0x376 irq 15 on isa0
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A, console
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
Elan-mmcr driver: MMCR at 0xc4a99000.
Elan-mmcr Soekris net45xx comBIOS ver. 1.33 20080103 Copyright (C) 2000-2007
Fast IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
IP Filter: v4.1.28 initialized.  Default = block all, Logging = enabled
md0: Preloaded image </mfsroot> 15728640 bytes at 0xc082a030
ad0: 967MB <CF CARD 1GB 20070131> at ata0-master PIO4
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0
kern.coredump: 1 -> 0
Found configuration on ad0.
pid 49 (php), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space
Killed

This net4511 has only 32 Mbyte Memory on board, any ideas/comments?

From the Hardware section of the m0n0wall site. The error message saying out of swap seems to contradict the below, but it really doesn't matter. 32MB is apparently a bit thin for the later releases.

The recommended amount of RAM for m0n0wall is 64 MB. It might work with less, especially if you don't use a lot of features/services, but there are no guarantees about that – watch out for failing firmware uploads (m0n0wall does not use swap space, so it can't do much about running out of memory).

[However, it also has higher hardware requirements]

To be fair, the m0n0wall site already suggests that "m0n0wall 1.3b is based on FreeBSD 6.x and has better hardware support than the FreeBSD 4.x based versions (up to version 1.23x), as well as a few new features. However, it also has higher hardware requirements."

I haven't found any official documentation yet outlining the future minimum requirements for the 6.x/7.x based branch, guess because we are still at a beta stage.

Personally I'm much more interested in the 6.x "better hardware support", ie. I have a 32bit wireless cardbus I can't use right now, than in the "new features".

So IF regrettably, m0n0wall's new hardware memory requirements start by 64-128MB, I personally wouldn't mind and hope that Manuel & Co could leave an avenue open for an unofficial and unsupported CF swap capable alternative.

Cheers