Re: [Soekris] Death of a soekris

2011-09-18 Thread Alvar Kusma
> I wonder if any Soekris motherboard ever failed; any horror history > about that? Juvenile fails? Or only lightning, earthquake, fire ...? Not an horror story, but yes. On one net5501 eth0 works, but front panel LED not (RJ45 jack led is still OK). Stopped working after 3 months or so after

Re: [Soekris] Death of a soekris

2011-09-18 Thread Nix
On 18 Sep 2011, Marco Calamari spake thusly: > I wonder if any Soekris motherboard ever failed; any horror history > about that? Juvenile fails? Or only lightning, earthquake, fire ...? I just bought a second Soekris in case of that, 'cos with no Soekris I have no network connection and with no n

Re: [Soekris] Death of a soekris

2011-09-18 Thread Marco Calamari
On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 15:41 -0400, Daniel Savard wrote: > 2011/9/14 Pontus > 2011-09-13 15:01, Bob Bishop skrev: > > Before you do anything else, check that the insulation on > your power supply hasn't failed. > > > It turns out the PSU was oddly f

Re: [Soekris] Death of a soekris

2011-09-16 Thread Daniel Savard
2011/9/14 Pontus > 2011-09-13 15:01, Bob Bishop skrev: > > Before you do anything else, check that the insulation on your power > supply hasn't failed. > > It turns out the PSU was oddly flaky. When measured, it gave 12V, but > apparently it couldn't handle the load. Then it sprung back to life a

Re: [Soekris] Death of a soekris

2011-09-15 Thread Pontus
2011-09-13 15:01, Bob Bishop skrev: > Before you do anything else, check that the insulation on your power supply > hasn't failed. It turns out the PSU was oddly flaky. When measured, it gave 12V, but apparently it couldn't handle the load. Then it sprung back to life and powered the soekris bu

Re: [Soekris] Death of a soekris

2011-09-13 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, On 13 Sep 2011, at 07:13, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: > So it has happened :( My Soekris net5501 bit the dust yesterday. I > attached a DB9 connector from my vt320 while the system was running and > *blipp* all lights on the soekris went out. > > I've done this many times before without problem

Re: [Soekris] Death of a soekris

2011-09-13 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:25:36AM +0200, Wim Vandeputte Mailing list only wrote: > and if you have the board now without the console attached, if you put > power to the external power connector, it does no longer light up? Dead as a doorknob with or without serial coord. > can you try with a di

[Soekris] Death of a soekris

2011-09-12 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
Hi all So it has happened :( My Soekris net5501 bit the dust yesterday. I attached a DB9 connector from my vt320 while the system was running and *blipp* all lights on the soekris went out. I've done this many times before without problems, perhaps I was lucky then or unlucky now :/ What do yo