RouterBOARD 411
Quick Setup Guide and Warranty Information
Assembling the Hardware
First use of the board:
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Insert the MiniPCI card. RouterBOARD 411 provides one
MiniPCI slot on the top of the board
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Connect antenna cables to the MiniPCI card
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Install the board in a case and connect other peripherals
and cables.
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Plug in power cable to turn on the board.
Powering
The board accepts powering from either the power jack or the
LAN1 Ethernet port:
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direct-input power jack
J7
(5.5mm outside and 2mm
inside diameter, female, pin positive plug) accepts
9..28V DC (overvoltage protection starts at 28V).
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LAN1 Ethernet port
J8
accepts 9..28V DC input (at the
board; higher voltage needed to compensate for power
loss on long cables; at least 18V suggested) from
non-standard (passive) Power over Ethernet injectors
(no power over datalines). The board
does not
work
with IEEE802.3af compliant 48V power injectors.
The maximum output of the power supply available for extension cards is normally 10W (3.0A).
Booting process
First, RouterBOOT is started. It displays some useful information on the onboard RS232C asynchronous serial port. The serial
port is set by default to 115200bit/s, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity.
Note
that the device does not fully implement the
hardware (RTS/CTS) flow control, so it is suggested to try to disable hardware flow control in the terminal emulation
program in case the serial console does not work as expected, and if it does not help, make a new cable using the pinout
given in the User's manual. The loader may be configured to boot the system from the onboard NAND, and/or from network.
See the respective section of User's manual on how to configure booting sequence and other BIOS parameters.
DHCP or BOOTP (configurable in loader) protocols allow the RouterBOARD 411 series board to get an initial IP address, and
provide the address of a TFTP server to download an ELF boot image from. It is especially useful for software installation.
See the User's manual for more information and protocol details. Note that you must connect the RouterBOARD you want to
boot and the BOOTP/DHCP and TFTP servers to the same broadcast domain (i.e., there must not be any routers between
them – they must be on the same Ethernet switch).
rev. A (28-Jan-2008)
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