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. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
