Hopefully RMA'd boards will help Soekris folks analyse what's gone wrong
with the hardware and whether it can be worked around via BIOS update.
Since the devices don't show any warning symptoms (are running normally)
and the boot failures for some at least are initially intermittent,
there's
On 01/13/2015 10:10 AM, Jherek Carnelian wrote:
The same happened with two net6501 here. The first one died after pfsense
update. The update rebooted the box automatically and it got stuck with rapid
flashing interface lights and constant red error light. I kept the thing off
for more than a
Hi
I have shipped in 4 boards with the exact same issue to soekris in Denmark last
week. And I have one more lying around with the error.
Some of our clients have seen this issue, where it suddenly stopped working,
and could then not boot back up. We have spend a lot of time to go out and fix
I've already contacted my seller and he replied, that RMA should be possible
without any problems.
But currently, he is out of stock and waiting for new mainboards to arrive. So
my RMA is still waiting.
My net6501 is also running in a rack case.
Today, after several days without power, I've
The same happened with two net6501 here. The first one died after pfsense
update. The update rebooted the box automatically and it got stuck with rapid
flashing interface lights and constant red error light. I kept the thing off
for more than a week until I tried again but nothing changed.
Just
On 1/13/2015 8:10 AM, Jherek Carnelian wrote:
Can that be caused by the power plugs or something?
I had a net6501 die on me just recently, but it's been in the Soekris
provided 1U rackmount (and in turn, power supply), connected to a UPS. I
know that this doesn't necessarily prove anything,
While they have this issue, it can normally also see the Ethernet diodes
flash randomly at low power.
That's interesting. I've something similiar. A character LCD (40x4) with an
USB-Interface is connected to my net6501. When the net6501 does not boot or is
completly dead, I can see the
Hi Martin,
On my dead board I have not observed the ethernet leds flashing
randomly - I essentially get all synchronized flash when reset button is
pressed and then all ethernet leds off. That said, I wasn't watching it
too closely before it died :( ...
Since then I've been testing the
