[Soekris] Possibly dying net4801?

[Bob Bishop]

Hi,

At 18:20 08/12/2006, Ryan McIntosh wrote:
>
>
>I’ve had this unit for over a year now, and the 
>past few months its been locking up randomly. I 
>can’t find any similarities as to why, 
>traffic/no traffic, wireless/no wireless, 2.5” 
>hd/CF
 with and without the lan1621.. I’m 
>running out of ideas at this point. It’s running 
>FreeBSD 6.1-p10 at the moment, and the only 
>thing I notice right now that could be causing 
>any issues is the Senao 5354 periodically going 
>into a beacon stuck mode, which I’m not worried 
>about as it’s a driver issue. Soo.. I’m looking 
>for advice on how to diagnose what could be 
>going on? Maybe to determine if I have a bad 
>board or a dying power supply? Or any other ideas


Eliminate overheating as the cause if you haven't already.

Then try a known good power supply which will 
deliver at least 9v on load. If that's not it 
then it sounds like you have a failing board 
because you seem to have eliminated everything else.

>Thanks in advance.
>
>--
>Ryan McIntosh <rmcintosh at nitemare.net>
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