Hi Chuck,A slight correction.... comBIOS 1.30 was relesaed a couple of days ago. I dont know yet if the fix for this issue made it into the release or not. It isnt mentioned in the changelog but maybe we'll get lucky.
As I am currently without a board to test it with, please give it a try and let me know if it fixes the problem.
Best Regards, Frank Chuck (Doc) Beaudette wrote:
Thanks for the info...very helpful-----Original Message-----From: Frank Cole [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 2:20 PMTo: Chuck (Doc) Beaudette Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Soekris] Dissapearing Interface on Mini-PC Slot Hi Chuck, We've had the same issue. The problem is with the comBIOS and how it is handling the single chip Atheros chipset on the Ubiquity and other Atheros single chip designs. Our experience on average was about 1 out of 30 power cycles the cards would not be initialized properly at/just after POST though some boards seemed to be more frequent and some less frequent. We sent a couple of cards to Soekris for them to experiment with and hopefully come up with a fix for the soon to be released comBIOS 1.30 update. Keep your fingers crossed. And you can stop reseating the card, it doesnt really do anything other than put wear on the card and the slot. Been there, done that. Only thing we've found that really does the trick is to do a hard reset (ie remove power and plug it back in) to correct the issue once it manifests as soft resets from the BIOS monitor dont consistently clear the problem up. Hope it helps.... Frank Cole Chuck (Doc) Beaudette wrote:I have run into an intersting anomoly and wonder if anyone else has seen something similar.I am using a net4501 w/ Mikrotik kernel. I installed a Ubiquiti XR2 wireless card. When I power cycle the unit, the wireless card disappears in the interface list. If I power off the unit, reseat the wireless card and power back up, the interface returns to the list.I originally thought this was a heat issue with the card because I was originally using a Mikrotik R52 in a small case, but I have since had this happen with mutliple wireless cards (using both XR2 and Mikrotik R52) and with multiple net4501 boards in fan cooled large enclosures.Doc _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
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