[Soekris] Board lockups in recent batches

[John]

Thanks for the heads up Mike. I have not seen anything similar with my most 
recent boards. Which model are you having this issue with? What miniPCI 
card?

Thanks!
John


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike" <mike-soekris at tiedyenetworks.com>
To: <soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:57 PM
Subject: [Soekris] Board lockups in recent batches


> 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-
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