[Soekris] Interface lockups on 4801

[Mike]

I have been complaining about another ethernet issue affecting 4526's 
where the board will lock up upon load of natsemi/dp83815 driver if it's 
warmbooted...sometimes.... and the problem appears to have shown up 
within the past few months. I've had 'poster child' boards in for RMA to 
no avail, and I've asked Soren directly and his response was basiclly 
'no chip changes or errata updates from natsemi, and nobody else 
reporting problems...', which I can understand - but you're a strong 
suggestion that perhaps this isn't all just me. I also am linux 2.4....

Mike-

Ryan Langseth wrote:
> On our latest batch of 4801s we have been experiencing network interface
> lockups, that are remedied by rebooting or running ip link set ethX down
> && ip link set ethX up"  we are running an older version of wisp-dist w/
> 2.4 kernel (leaf.sourceforge.net) on these boxes and also have it
> running on many other Soekris 4801s, 4511s, and 4521s.  
>
> I am a little lost on what else to troubleshoot on these. I am not
> seeing anything in the logs. 
>
> They are running max 5 mb/s through the interface although, it does not
> seem to match high bandwidth usage. 
>
> Any suggestions on what else to check?
>
> what has changed on new versions (last 6 months) of 4801s?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
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