On 2016-02-22 6:33 AM, Martin Dahlem wrote: > I think I have had about 25-30 net6501 during the last 4 years. About 10 of > those where from the first time of life, with the very simple heatsink that > where only a black plate. > I have had massive issues with them failing, so we have chosen to abandon > Soekris since. I have also seen the same error on never models with a bit > more advanced heatsink that is not black but plain metal. > > There is also a model with a much larger heatsink with holes in the plate. I > have not seen any errors on them though. > > And the error is normally the same, where the error led stays red, and it > does not boot. And sometimes they get back to life, after a long time off. > There is normally no output to console port, but can press +++ and then get a > response. Looks like it somehow fails to boot the cpu. > > Regards Martin > > When I looked last year I think that one of com bios' board init tests was failing.
One could disassemble the com bios and no-op that check out of the com bios software load, at which point you might get it to boot your software load (linux or bsd) but then not have any available/usable network devices. At that level though the devil is in the details and might not be as simple as that. I've thought about doing this because then maybe I might be able to attach a pci-e network card and re-purpose my 6501 'brick'. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
