Hello all- I've been reading the list archives to find it appears some people have reported an exessively fast hardware clock and system clock on the 5501.
This includes mine. I've found I can use clock=pit on my fedora core 6 install stock kernel to at least get the system clock to calm down. I've read about building in support for the scx200 high speed hardware counter to have the kernel use that instead of the TSC. I plan to use that to solve system clock issues permanently. Apparently it's when the TSC is in use (w/ the new tickless 2.6 kernel stuff) that the system clock side of it gets in trouble. But the hardware clock running too fast still persists. I've read others who have watched it from Comm BIOS with the "time" command to see it in action. I've used hwclock from linux to see it going too fast when compared w/ my system clock running with the PIT timer. I've also read that it seems some people have this problem and others don't? I could be wrong, but is this true that some boards have the fast hardware clock problem and others don't? Is there something that can be done to correct this? That's the one thing I couldn't find in the archives, so I'm asking about it here. I really want to avoid having a clock that gets ahead when this box needs to get it's initial system clock setup from the hardware clock at boot. It will be annoying to have ntpdate or rdate push it backwards in time once the network is started etc. So -- is there a fix available even if it means modifying the hardware? I'd be happy to send the board back for re-work and would even consider paying for the shipping etc. as it's simply important to me to have this fixed. I'm also willing to have one of our techs replace a crystal or whatever if it means changing something physical. Otherwise -- so far it's looking good for my planned use as a firewall / router / no moving parts / lower power frontend to our couple of internet connections and wireless network. Any info would be greatly appreciated. -- Eric Malkowski _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
