[Soekris] Board lockups in recent batches

[Mike]

Hi Gang,

    I've begun to experience a problem where certain boards will lock up 
upon loading the ethernet driver (linux natsemi and the dp83815 supplied 
on soekris website). The symptom usually is that it will boot fine the 
first time, and then upon warmboot it will hang. But not consistiently. 
I did send one back to soekris for rma and test but they couldn't 
reproduce the problem, and then I realised that the wireless card wasn't 
shipped with it either. The boot order doesn't load wireless drivers 
until well after the ethernet, and I've examined my code and there is 
nothing but a trivial setup of /dev/random which happens immediately 
before the next thing which would create a kernel message on the 
console. The ethernet drivers do wait at several points for certain 
hardware initializations and so I'm just idly wondering if there could 
be a minipci problem of some kind that would cause the ethernet drivers 
to hang? Anyone?

Mike-