In article <[email protected]>, Staffan Thomén <[email protected]> wrote: >Greg Troxel wrote: >> Staffan Thomén<[email protected]> writes: >> >>> I recently got a PCEngines APU2 (not sure of the exact model) to >>> replace my failing Soekris gateway >> >> As Joseph taught Eliza to say, many others have the same sorts of >> feelings. >> >> Except that my net5501 was fine, just slow, and I got an apu2d4. > >Yeah, my net6501 started to exhibit a well known fault (the "Red LED of >Death") where it doesn't get as far as the bios when booting "warm" (once >running it would keep running though). You can still use the +++ command on >the serial console to get to the uManager when it is in this state, but it has >to cool down for a couple of hours unplugged before it'd boot back up again. > >Someone on the Internet(tm) claimed that replacing two caps near the power >connector helped, but that didn't solve the problem on mine. > >Anyway, I found what was causing the issue, if not how. I have a telldus >tellstick 433MHz "home automation" controller connected via USB to the system, >and removing it completely cleared the problem. The APU has been running for >several days now without issue. > >However I really would like to be able to control my lights... > >Normally the tellstick would attach as a uftdi device with an ucom, but >because the controlling daemon uses libftdi I've disabled those and it's >attached as an ugen device. > >There was also a problem communicating with it when it attached using ehci, >disabling ehci made it connect through an uhub attached to xhci and it started >to work. Apparently something isn't working right though, but I don't know any >knobs to twiddle here. > >The device was working flawlessly on the soekris. > >Any suggestions?
Use a powered usb hub. christos
