Hi Alan,

Alan wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Attila Kinali<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>
>> I recently plugged a WLAN card into my net5501 and now get
>> sporadic hangs of the system. They are only present when
>> the card is active and sending. As the system doesnt reboot,
>> it looks like that it is a transient, too fast for the
>> reset/power supervisor circuit to catch.
>
> I just want to say that I've had the same problem in all my 6 soekris
> boxes, and I tested them with an open case, with atheros and broadcom
> cards, with heatsinks installed, also using different power supplies
> (12v from 2 to 8 amps), it doesn't make a difference, they all hang
> and are not even rebooted by the watchdog.
>
> So I had to remove the wifi cards in all of them, and now they are
> stable, except one of them that still hangs and sometimes gets
> rebooted by the watchdog.
> The one that still hangs has more (wired) network activity than the rest.
>
> I am 100% sure that the wifi related hangs are a hardware issue, not
> so sure about the wired network problem though.
>
> The only reason why I'm still subscribed to this mailing list after 2
> years of implementing this is to check if this ever gets solved.
>
> Even if the wired network problem is a driver issue, I would have
> expected some debugging and fixing by Soekris by now.
>
> I have to admit though that I never reported this to [email protected]
> before, I just posted my findings in this mailing list, that's why I'm
> CCing them now.

As always, we will try to solve any technical problem there are with any 
of our products, but until a weeks ago I wasn't aware that there might 
be a problem like you describe it.

Can you please email me details about your hardware and software ?


Best Regards,


Soren Kristensen

CEO & Chief Engineer
Soekris Engineering, Inc.
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