[Soekris] Board lockups in recent batches

[Ted Phelps]

Mike writes:
>     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?

Jim Cromie observed that the wake-on-lan settings were confusing a
network boot.  It's a long shot, but perhaps disabling wake-on-lan will
help for you too?

    ethtool -s eth0 wol d

Cheers,
-Ted