I will do that. I have had a reason to flash a BIOS yet, so it will be a good opportunity to get a little hands on doing that.
-----Original Message----- From: Frank Cole [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 3:35 PM To: Chuck (Doc) Beaudette Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Soekris] Dissapearing Interface on Mini-PC Slot 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 PM > To: 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 >> > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
