On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Soren Kristensen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jan, > > Jan Ceuleers wrote: >> On 22/09/10 23:37, Soren Kristensen wrote: >>> Our experience is that 9 out of 10 times issues with stability is either >>> problems with the power supply or with the software, especially Linux as >>> it seems to have taken long time for a stable VT6105M Linux driver to >>> show up.... >>> >>> If it's one of the very few instances where it's a hardware issue just >>> contact [email protected] to request service, if under warranty it will be >>> replaced or repaired at no charge. But try another power supply first, >>> and if running Linux, ensure you have the stable drivers. >> >> I have similar problems with my 5501 crashing very frequently. I've >> tried two separate power supplies without effect. >> >> Some questions to everyone out there: >> >> - Does anyone know as from which kernel version the VT6105M (aka >> via-rhine) driver is believed to be stable? I've been looking through >> the git history of this file but can't find anything recent that looks >> like it might explain crashes. > > I'm sorry that I can't track software that much, busy designing new > hardware.... But didn't somebody recently post about fixing the Linux > VIA driver ? > >> - One data point: when my machine crashes there is no backtrace. So it's >> a hard lock-up. > > A couple of question/suggestions: > > 1) Does it crash without wifi activity ? > 2) If so, have you tried without any wifi drivers loaded but the > hardware still in ?
I remember trying this a few months ago (no wifi drivers loaded but hardware in), and still got crashes. But anyway, I would like to encourage Jan and others to experiment all posibilities, we need more people to figure out what is going on. Alan _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
