On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 23:10 -0700, Ralph Becker-Szendy wrote: > Agree. It would be good to know that Soekris considers this to be a > problem, and is intending to actually fix it (for example by having a > combios update). At this point, this problem has been known since > late June (see Martin Johnson's message on this list from 6/30); > several people (including me) have reported here that they can > reproduce it (all it takes is a 5501, a disk, and a reboot command). > It is now late August, and to my knowledge there has been no single > indication from Soekris that they even acknowledge this as a problem > (or consider the current behavior acceptable), or that they have any > intention of addressing it. The pessimist in me is thinking that this > problem will never be fixed, and that I'm better off replacing my 5501 > with some Via nanoUTX boards, perhaps returning the 5501 under > warranty for a refund. The optimist in me hopes that a combios > upgrade will be available any day now. The lazy bum in we will do > nothing (replacing the 5501 would cause extra work), but will stop > buying and recommending Soekris until they demonstrate that they care.
It seems possible that the people (person) at Soekris who can address this problem is on vacation or otherwise indisposed to answering emails. Even my orders aren't being answered. Anyone know when Soekris will come back from lunch break? -jwb _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
