[Soekris] WiFi card failures in 4526's

[Nate Nielsen]

Joshua ChaitinPollak wrote:
> First off, does the Soekris have a temperature sensor or CPU  
> throttling ablities? 

Yup.

> How would I go about accessing that information  
> via Linux?

It's an LM75 chip. I believe there are various drivers and patches for
Linux.

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> Currently, the cards and mounted in the slot directly above the AMD  
> chip, although I have suggested moving the cards to the other slot.  
> The cards are rated at a max of 70 degrees Celsius, which sounds  
> reasonable, but we haven't done any temperature testing yet.

:) Even if it doesn't ruin the card, the Atheros chipsets (from
experience) won't perform properly if the temperature is over 55 for
extended periods of time. That's measured from the Soekris onboard
temperature sensor.

Cheers,
Nate