[Soekris] Possibly dying net4801?

[William Estrada]

Ryan,

  I had a similar problem with my 4801.  Now to say this is your problem!

  My harddrive was powering down.  Since I use swap space on the disk, the
system just went catatonic.  Had to power cycle it to fix it temporally.
Replaced the hard drive and rebuilt the system to FC5 and all is well now.

  Do you have serial console support when it fails?


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  Thanks for your time.

William Estrada

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> Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 13:20:58 -0500
> From: "Ryan McIntosh" <rmcintosh at nitemare.net>
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> 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.