Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-04-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2010-04-07, russell russ...@dotplan.dyndns.org wrote: Speaking of which, I would love to test patches for the ath 5424, be awesome if I could use the internal radio.. sure, go ahead. see the tech@ list archives for mail from Luis Henriques.

Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-04-07 Thread russell
I am curious, though, what brands of wifi cards OpenBSD folks use for APs. From when I was investigating this a year or so ago the ral cards (per the man pages) were about the only ones without some sort of caveat in AP mode. yep, ral(4) works quite well for me ifconfig ral0 ral0:

Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-04-07 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2010-04-07, corey clingo clinge...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: In gmane.os.openbsd.misc, you wrote: Anyway, I'm looking for suggestions on how to proceed in troubleshooting this. I would try another OS with as different a

Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-04-07 Thread Daniel Melameth
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: The newest ones that I've had personal experience of being problem- free in AP mode are the old PRISM cards (when running suitable firmware on them) and one specific model of ath(4) (the one IBM used to use in some

Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-04-07 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:18 -0600, Daniel Melameth dan...@melameth.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: The newest ones that I've had personal experience of being problem- free in AP mode are the old PRISM cards (when running suitable firmware

Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-04-06 Thread corey clingo
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: In gmane.os.openbsd.misc, you wrote: Anyway, I'm looking for suggestions on how to proceed in troubleshooting this. I would try another OS with as different a driver as possible (e.g. probably Linux). True, but

Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-04-06 Thread corey clingo
Some more info: 1. I checked the PSU with it plugged into a 5-ohm dummy load, and into the Soekris. With the dummy load, the voltage fell to 11.5 volts -- pretty crappy regulation, but still well within the Soekris' specs. The dummy load is drawing over 2A at that voltage. In the Soekris, the

Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-04-03 Thread corey clingo
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:06 PM, FRLinux frli...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Corey clinge...@gmail.com wrote: I saw them, yes. Soekris Engineering says the net5501 itself draws 20W max. My power supply is rated for 40W. I doubt that little miniPCI card draws 20 watts.

Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-04-02 Thread FRLinux
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Corey clinge...@gmail.com wrote: I saw them, yes. Soekris Engineering says the net5501 itself draws 20W max. My power supply is rated for 40W. I doubt that little miniPCI card draws 20 watts. Yes, but how many amps? Steph

Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-04-02 Thread Matt Bettinger
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:06 PM, FRLinux frli...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Corey clinge...@gmail.com wrote: I saw them, yes. Soekris Engineering says the net5501 itself draws 20W max. My power supply is rated for 40W. I doubt that little miniPCI card draws 20 watts.

Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-04-01 Thread FRLinux
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:34 AM, corey clingo clinge...@gmail.com wrote: Reposting this, as I posted Friday evening when fewer people were probably reading and haven't heard anything. If that's not the reason, then sorry for the noise. Hello, have you looked at the ML posts? Which power

Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-04-01 Thread Corey
On 04/01/2010 04:43 PM, FRLinux wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:34 AM, corey clingoclinge...@gmail.com wrote: Reposting this, as I posted Friday evening when fewer people were probably reading and haven't heard anything. If that's not the reason, then sorry for the noise. Hello,

Re: Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-03-30 Thread corey clingo
locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI To: misc@openbsd.org I'm having trouble with my Soekris net5501 home router (and now wifi access point) locking up. Prior to installing the wifi I had it running various snapshots for about 6 months, no problem. (My wifi at that time was a separate Linksys

Soekris net5501 locks up with Ralink 2860 miniPCI

2010-03-26 Thread Corey
I'm having trouble with my Soekris net5501 home router (and now wifi access point) locking up. Prior to installing the wifi I had it running various snapshots for about 6 months, no problem. (My wifi at that time was a separate Linksys WRT54GS running Tomato.) I had wanted to toy with