[Soekris] Dissapearing Interface on Mini-PC Slot

[Frank Cole]

Hi Chuck,

	Sorry, sometimes I forget that not everybody has a Soekris board next 
to their bed (just kidding everyone). hahahaha

Take care,

Frank

Chuck (Doc) Beaudette wrote:
> I will do that. I have had a reason to flash a BIOS yet, so it will be a
> good opportunity to get a little hands on doing that.
> 
>  
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Cole [mailto:fcole at coleinnovations.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 3:35 PM
> To: Chuck (Doc) Beaudette
> Cc: soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com
> Subject: Re: [Soekris] Dissapearing Interface on Mini-PC Slot
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Chuck,
> 
> 	A slight correction.... comBIOS 1.30 was relesaed a couple of days
> ago. 
>   I dont know yet if the fix for this issue made it into the release or not.
> It isnt mentioned in the changelog but maybe we'll get lucky.
> 
> 	As I am currently without a board to test it with, please give it a
> try and let me know if it fixes the problem.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Frank
> 
> Chuck (Doc) Beaudette wrote:
>> Thanks for the info...very helpful
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Frank Cole [mailto:fcole at coleinnovations.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 2:20 PM
>> To: Chuck (Doc) Beaudette
>> Cc: soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com
>> Subject: Re: [Soekris] Dissapearing Interface on Mini-PC Slot
>>
>> Hi Chuck,
>>
>> 	We've had the same issue.  The problem is with the comBIOS and how
> it 
>> is handling the single chip Atheros chipset on the Ubiquity and other 
>> Atheros single chip designs.  Our experience on average was about 1 
>> out of 30 power cycles the cards would not be initialized properly 
>> at/just after POST though some boards seemed to be more frequent and some
> less frequent.
>> 	We sent a couple of cards to Soekris for them to experiment with and
> 
>> hopefully come up with a fix for the soon to be released comBIOS 1.30 
>> update.
>>
>> 	Keep your fingers crossed.
>>
>> 	And you can stop reseating the card, it doesnt really do anything 
>> other than put wear on the card and the slot.  Been there, done that.  
>> Only thing we've found that really does the trick is to do a hard 
>> reset (ie remove power and plug it back in) to correct the issue once 
>> it manifests as soft resets from the BIOS monitor dont consistently clear
> the problem up.
>> 	Hope it helps....
>>
>> Frank Cole
>>
>> Chuck (Doc) Beaudette wrote:
>>> I have run into an intersting anomoly and wonder if anyone else has 
>>> seen something similar.
>>>
>>> I am using a net4501 w/ Mikrotik kernel. I installed a Ubiquiti XR2 
>>> wireless card. When I power cycle the unit, the wireless card 
>>> disappears in the interface list. If I power off the unit, reseat the 
>>> wireless card and power back up, the interface returns to the list.
>>>
>>> I originally thought this was a heat issue with the card because I 
>>> was originally using a Mikrotik R52 in a small case, but I have since 
>>> had this happen with mutliple wireless cards (using both XR2 and 
>>> Mikrotik
>>> R52) and with multiple net4501 boards in fan cooled large enclosures.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Doc
>>>
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